Creating a Practical Laboratory for Usability Evaluation

Jiazhen Wang; Ngoc Vo; Gary Westergren

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 1344–1346

This paper presents a schema for academic and corporate organizations to create a fully functional yet simple laboratory for the usability study of websites, applications and materials. At the University of Missouri, a successful usability...

Advancing International Partnerships for eLearning in Asia

Gary Westergren; Jiazhen Wang; Ngoc Vo

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 3540–3545

This paper presents results of a study into how to best identify, initiate, implement and maintain international partnership arrangements between international universities. The study will focus on partnerships between the University of Missouri, a ...

Infusing Authentic Learning into Online Courses: a Case of Online Introduction to Sociology

Ngoc Vo; Angela Brodsky; Marla Wilks; Jason Goodner; Kelley Christopher

Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 27, No. 3 (July 2018) pp. 391–409

One of the challenges in higher education courses is to improve learning authenticity or reducing the gap between what being taught at school and what being used in the real world. In this paper, we describe a 6-step model to employ learning...

Infusing Authentic Learning into Online Courses: a Case of Online Introduction to Sociology

Ngoc Vo; Angela Brodsky; Marla Wilks; Jason Goodner; Kelley Christopher

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2017 (Jun 20, 2017) pp. 913–924

One of the challenges in higher education courses is to improve learning authenticity or reducing the gap between what being taught at school and what being used in the real world. In this paper, we describe a 6-step model to employ learning...

Topics: pedagogical issues, Teaching/Learning Strategies, SIG: Learning Design

ELearning Usability Instruments What is being Evaluated?

Joi L. Moore; Camille Dickson-Deane; Krista Galyen; Ngoc Vo; Mai Charoentham

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 430–435

The process of evaluating the usability of e-Learning has included the use of varying instruments. These instruments have myriad factors and foci when attempting to provide an appropriate review of an e-Learning product. The variety of instruments...

Usability Evaluation of a Nuclear Math and Theory Online Learning Environment

Krista Galyen; Camille Dickson-Deane; Joi Moore; Weichao Chen; Ngoc Vo

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 842–847

The purpose of this paper is to describe a designer’s exploratory use of an e-learning usability evaluation heuristic in the beginning processes of designing and developing a nuclear math and theory online learning environment (OLE). A team...

Feedback from a Faculty Certification Course for Online Teaching: Desired Training Content and Activities

Ngoc Vo; Yinning Zhang; Angela Brodsky; Nihal Gunay; Jodi Fissel; Christy Talley-Smith

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2017 (Jun 20, 2017) pp. 595–601

This paper presents a four-year result of implementing a faculty certification course, which prepares faculty for teaching online. Feedback from 23 sessions from 2013 to 2016 was analyzed. The finding reveals that faculty prefer hands-on experience...

Topics: Teaching/Learning Strategies, Instructor Training and Support, Implementation Experiences

Customizing Section 508 HHS Checklists to Evaluate Accessibility of Interactive Features in Online Courses

Ngoc Vo; Lauren Hamel; Yinning Zhang; Angela Brodsky; Angela Reid; Lucas Carr; Wesley Steverson; Michael Harris

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2017 (Oct 17, 2017) pp. 88–101

This study aims at evaluating and distilling the US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Accessibility checklists into shorter, more applicable checklists that focus on the interactivity components in an online course A group of five...

Topics: Evaluation, Tools & Systems, Standards & Interoperability