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* {{quotation | Design languages, formal or intuitive, lie at the heart of all design and development processes and tools.}} (Gibbons & Brewer, 2005:111). | * {{quotation | Design languages, formal or intuitive, lie at the heart of all design and development processes and tools.}} (Gibbons & Brewer, 2005:111). | ||
* A design language is {{quotation | a tool that designers use to communicate designs, plans, and intentions to each other and to the users of their artifacts}} (Botturi, 2006: 268) | |||
== Dimensions of Design Languages == | == Dimensions of Design Languages == | ||
Gibbons & Brewer (2005:115-118) | Gibbons & Brewer (2005:115-118) distinguish: | ||
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== References == | == References == | ||
Botturi, L. (2006). E2ML. A visual language for the design of instruction. Educational Technologies Research & Development, 54(3), 265-293. [http://www.springerlink.com/content/2473528qj53l0601/ Abstract/PDF] {{ar}} | |||
* Gibbons, Andrew, S. and Erin K. Brewer, (2005) “Elementary principles of design languages and design notation systems for instructional design”. In J.M. Spector, C. Ohrazda, A. Van Schaack, and D. Wiley (Eds.), Innovations to instructional technology: Essays in honor of M. David Merrill, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah NJ, pp. 111-129. | * Gibbons, Andrew, S. and Erin K. Brewer, (2005) “Elementary principles of design languages and design notation systems for instructional design”. In J.M. Spector, C. Ohrazda, A. Van Schaack, and D. Wiley (Eds.), Innovations to instructional technology: Essays in honor of M. David Merrill, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah NJ, pp. 111-129. | ||
* Waters, Sandie, H. & Andrew, S. Gibbons (2004). Design languages, notation systems, and instructional technology: A case study: ''Educational Technology Research and Development, 52(2), 57-69. | * Waters, Sandie, H. & Andrew, S. Gibbons (2004). Design languages, notation systems, and instructional technology: A case study: ''Educational Technology Research and Development, 52(2), 57-69. | ||
Revision as of 02:24, 11 October 2006
Definition
- “Design languages, formal or intuitive, lie at the heart of all design and development processes and tools.” (Gibbons & Brewer, 2005:111).
- A design language is “a tool that designers use to communicate designs, plans, and intentions to each other and to the users of their artifacts” (Botturi, 2006: 268)
Dimensions of Design Languages
Gibbons & Brewer (2005:115-118) distinguish:
Examples
- Educational modelling languages
- Various UML-based design languages
References
Botturi, L. (2006). E2ML. A visual language for the design of instruction. Educational Technologies Research & Development, 54(3), 265-293. Abstract/PDF (Access restricted)
- Gibbons, Andrew, S. and Erin K. Brewer, (2005) “Elementary principles of design languages and design notation systems for instructional design”. In J.M. Spector, C. Ohrazda, A. Van Schaack, and D. Wiley (Eds.), Innovations to instructional technology: Essays in honor of M. David Merrill, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah NJ, pp. 111-129.
- Waters, Sandie, H. & Andrew, S. Gibbons (2004). Design languages, notation systems, and instructional technology: A case study: Educational Technology Research and Development, 52(2), 57-69.