Interaction Evaluation Using the Mac-g in Sloodle

The use of new technologies in educational environments fosters interaction among teachers, tutors and students. In order to create possibilities to this kind of interaction being stimulating and effective it is necessary that these environments are evaluated by all the actors involved before planning learning scenarios. Bearing that in mind, this work presents a new evaluation method for three dimensions environments, which is evolved from another one based on the communicability perspective. This method is proposed by Semiotic Engineering and involves the participation of users for groupware systems, called MAC-G. By applying it as an evaluation for learning management systems in three dimensions, it proved to be appropriate although missing some categories to be more effective. The evaluation using MAC-G fleshed out some clues for changing the way teacher plans the interaction and also pointed out the need for an extension more appropriate to 3D Virtual Environments