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Design, Development, and Evaluation of an e-Learning Module User Interface
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, Defense Language Institute, Monterey CA, United States

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, in Vancouver, Canada ISBN 978-1-880094-76-1 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), San Diego, CA

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This paper describes the design, development, and evaluation of the user interface that was used for a series of online staff development learning modules for L2 instructors at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. Proactive requirements, rapid prototyping, and a user-centered evaluation contributed to the development of an effective online learning module design that is easy to use, highly reliable across a broad range of platforms and is easily transported to remote network servers. As noted by Gardiner and Christie (1987), the user interface provides a type of "dialogue" with the learner and is one of the most critical elements of effective e-learning. The process employed rapid prototyping development and informal focus group evaluations in developing a consistent, effective, and reliable user interface.

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Isaacson, R. (2009). Design, Development, and Evaluation of an e-Learning Module User Interface. In T. Bastiaens, J. Dron & C. Xin (Eds.), Proceedings of E-Learn 2009--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (pp. 1682-1687). Vancouver, Canada: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 9, 2024 from .

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