EMPI: A questionnaire based method for the evaluation of multimedia interactive pedagogical software

We submit a method to help in evaluating the multimedia learning software. We aim to assist the users (mainly teachers and students) to make a choice between the large range of software actually available. Our process is to divide the software analysis into six main themes: the general feeling, the technical quality, the usability, the multimedia docu-ments, the scenario and the didactics. Each of these themes is sub-divided into criteria, sub-criteria and questions. The whole forms a hierarchical question-naire that allows marking software through various aspects, in order to compare it to other software or with a determined pedagogical context. This paper presents the detailed structure of the questionnaire, through the criteria which compose it, along with some examples of questions, and, to end with, some aspects of the software we are making in order to bring the method into operation