Supporting the application of design patterns in web-course design. Paper presented at the ED-MEDIA 2002 conference

Many instructors are expected to design and create Web courses. The design of Web courses can be a difficult task for educators who lack experience in interaction and instructional design. Design patterns have emerged as a way to capture design experience and present design solutions to novice designers. Design patterns are a widely accepted method of providing design support to software engineers, and they have been proposed to support designers of Web-based courses. However, end-users ' abilities to use design patterns are unclear especially since Web-course design and computer programming are different activities. This paper presents a methodology for supporting novices ' use of patterns during Web-based instructional design. This methodology consists of a pattern language for Web-based instruction and a design environment that scaffolds the process of finding, selecting, and applying patterns to design problems. (Contains 18 references and 2 figures.) (Author) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document