Multiple Objectives in the Development of the Gordon Macro Game

Abstract

The GORDON MACRO GAME is an interactive graphics tutorial and simulation model for use in Intermediate Macroeconomics classes. The software was carefully designed to meet specified objectives arid criteria as they related to students, instructors, author/programmers, and publishers. A review ref the literature on computer aided instruction pointed to the need to insure that the interests and viewpoints of many clientele groups guide the development of the software to insure its successful use and implemental teen, Throughout the development stages the authors constantly measured the product against design criteria in the hope that careful attention to these sometimes tedious details would pay off in the form of successful learning and teaching experiences (riot to mention inure widespread adaption of the text book with which it was associated).