Design Principles of the Mobile Blackboard

Designer's Models –or- Mental models

In both designs we see that the push for mobile access to Blackboard has infiltrate all types of smart phones.

The software design is different for different types of phones, but remain with the same type of capabilities.

Problems with Blackboard!

Taught Helplessness:

Designs that produce poor mental models

Designs with little feedback

Self efficacy

Problems with Blackboard!

Poka-yoke is a Japanese term that means

"mistake-proofing". A poka-yoke is any

mechanism in process that helps an equipment

operator avoid mistakes. Its purpose is to

eliminate product defects by preventing,

correcting, or drawing attention to human errors

as they occur.

In terms of education this allows students to not make effective mistakes!