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Table 5. Characteristics of Poor versus Good Interactive

Technology Design [46]

Poor Design Good Design
Lacks pedagogical
framework

Informed by pedagogy

Inconsistent or haphazard
use of features

Strategic use of features to
prompt learner – content
interactions
Too many features or learner
decision points

Streamline design to mitigate
cognitive
Load
Content not apparent or
weakly presented by
interactions

Content rich interactions

Lacks learner choices Interactions align with and
focus on content learning
Static (one way) content
focus

Learner-directed choices

Lacks physical content
interaction

Dynamic interactions to read or
act upon
Lacks prompting for
intellectual, social, and
emotional thinking

Prompts physical interaction

with content environment

Lacks prompting for self-
regulation

Prompts for intellectual, social,
and
emotional content engagement
Extraneous design features
which interfere with bimodal
processing

Prompts self-regulation