ELearning Usability Instruments What is being Evaluated?
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Joi L. Moore, Camille Dickson-Deane, Krista Galyen, Ngoc Vo, Mai Charoentham, University of Missouri, United States
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA ISBN 978-1-880094-66-2 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), San Diego, CA
Abstract
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 and their embedded definitions creates some ambiguity when there is a need to review a particular e-Learning "unit". The purpose of this paper is to initially provide a guide towards the development of an appropriate instrument to review the usability of an e-Course. This is en route to an instrument that can be manipulated to produce specific guides for the usability of any type of e-Learning product. As e-Learning products may have varying goals, instruments that can be manipulated would prove to be much more appropriate to the usability of all e-Learning products.
Citation
Moore, J.L., Dickson-Deane, C., Galyen, K., Vo, N. & Charoentham, M. (2008). ELearning Usability Instruments What is being Evaluated?. In C. Bonk, M. Lee & T. Reynolds (Eds.), Proceedings of E-Learn 2008--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (pp. 430-435). Las Vegas, Nevada, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 14, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/29641/.
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