Experience Improving WWW based Courseware through Usability Studies
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Authors
EdMedia + Innovate Learning, 1999 in Seattle, WA USA ISBN 978-1-880094-35-8
Abstract
The World Wide Web (WWW) has been heralded as a significant opportunity to deliver successful tele-educational courseware and learning experiences. The central tenant of the WWW being that everyone (educationalists) can become a publisher of educational material. However, although possessing technical or educational skills, WWW user interface design, usability and good pedagogical layout of WWW based content, are skills which are frequently weak amongst many of this community. This paper researches and proposes an easy to use 'usability' criteria and questionnaire, which facilitates the evaluation of educational WWW courseware. The paper describes the implementation of a WWW based server system for the questionnaire. The paper also describes how the system was trialled on an already proven WWW courseware system and still provided indications where improvements could be performed. The paper concludes with an assessment of the benefits of iteratively utilising such a system to improve WWW courseware.
Citation
Wade, V.P. & Lyng, M. (1999). Experience Improving WWW based Courseware through Usability Studies. In B. Collis & R. Oliver (Eds.), Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 1999--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (pp. 951-956). Seattle, WA USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 11, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/6609.
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