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Over the last few years impressive claims for increased productivity have been made for the development of multimedia courseware. Perhaps multimedia effort estimation has proved to be unreliable in accurately predicting development effort. The authors propose that the problem can be clarified by careful definition and rigorous use of terminology to measure productivity or estimate effort. Starting point is the organizational context and the end product complexity. A waterfall model for multimedia courseware development is used to define stating and finishing points for measurement purposes. On this basis elapsed time, development time, effort, learner time, productivity and effort to learner time ratio are defined along with appropriate units.
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Marshall, I.M., Samson, W.B., Dugard, P.I., Castell, A. (1995). A rigorous framework for measuring development productivity and estimating the effort of multimedia courseware. In: Tinsley, J.D., van Weert, T.J. (eds) World Conference on Computers in Education VI. WCCE 1995. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34844-5_15
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