- Cognitive and Social Design Principles - Microcomputers in Education: Cognitive and Social Design Principles Report of a Conference Part 2" SYNTHESIS by Thomas W. Malone Part I of this report, which was published in the l a s t B u l l e t i n , summarized the short informal presentations made by the workshop p a r t i c i p a n t s . Part 2 describes some examples of well-designed i n s t r u c t i o n a l games and a r t i c u l a t e s several general themes that ran through the conference. - Cognitive and S o c i a l Design Principles - SYN ]'H~2SIS One of the issues raised at the workshop involved how best to aid designers of instructional software. On the one hand, analytic design principles run the risk of missing key points altogether and can easily degenerate into being useless platitudes. On the other hand, good examples of actual systems may not help much in designing new systems unless it is clear which elements of the good systems are fundamental to their success
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