This work was carried out to develop and evaluate an educational software for irrigation by using hypermedia resources, for teaching and learning of "Irrigation Basic Course: Systems and Management". It was organized in a CD-Rom divided in 7 chapters and provided with a manual. For elaborating the software, a multidisciplinary team of professionals in the areas of Irrigation, Education and Computer Science was constituted. The theoretical assumption for course development was "behavioristic". Copies of CD-Rom were distributed to farmers in Janaúba, MG, and Sousa, PB, and among High School and College level students related to the agricultural area in the cities of Rio Pomba, Viçosa and Montes Claros, MG, and Sousa, PB. Each participant was requested to evaluate the CD-Rom as a whole, considering the didactic aspect, and after that to concentrate on just one chapter of the software, so that he/she could answer a questionnaire. The results were separated by appraised groups: Group A (farmers); Group B (High School students) and Group C (College students), and the data contained were appraised by category: interface, content and interactivity category. The evaluation indicated a mean value of 6.87 considered to be 'a lot' in the Likert scale, indicating that the software can be used as a didactic resource for the teaching and learning of irrigation.
irrigation; educational software; multimedia
