Using semiotics to analyze the efficiency of a model in teaching

ABSTRACT

Semiotics is used here to explain why spreadsheets make effective teaching models.

REFERENCES

• 1: Owen, M. (1999). Appropriate and appropriated technology: technological literacy and educational software standards. Educational Technology & Society. Vol. 2, No. 4.
• 2: William Fone, Using a familiar package to demonstrate a difficult concept: using an excel spreadsheet model to explain the concepts of neural networks to undergraduates, Proceedings of the 6th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education, p.165-168, June 2001, Canterbury, United Kingdom
• 3: Kecheng Liu, Semiotics in information systems engineering, Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2000

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.1 MODELS AND PRINCIPLES
      H.1.2 User/Machine Systems

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors

Keywords:
semiotics, teaching models