Success is not enough: challenges to sustaining new forms of educational activity.
Part of a special issue on afterschool computer programs for children. The writers discuss the need for computer programs to be more than successful initially but also to sustain new forms of educational activity. They note that setting up a Fifth Dimension activity system in a community institutio...
| Published in: | Computers in Human Behavior Vol. 16; no. 3; pp. 271 - 287 |
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Elsevier Science
May 2000
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| Summary: | Part of a special issue on afterschool computer programs for children. The writers discuss the need for computer programs to be more than successful initially but also to sustain new forms of educational activity. They note that setting up a Fifth Dimension activity system in a community institution and an associated university course may be sufficient to get activity under way, but it may not be enough to keep it going. They provide two examples, one in California and the other in Michigan, of systems that existed for a time and then failed, despite evidence of their effectiveness. |
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