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Usability and E-Learning

By Panagiotis Zaharias
Extracted from eLearningMag.org - Usability and E-Learning, The Road Towards Integration

Article excerpt - "Technology innovations abound in learning, education, and training, but the need for evaluation of such technology remains. Usability is a basic parameter for the evaluation of e-learning technologies and systems. Usability means quality and puts the users and their real needs in the center. Therefore investigation of usability and its integration or contribution to learning process is worthwhile. In this article a first attempt was made to define usability in e-learning. More concrete definitions are expected to emerge and then a considerable amount of effort is needed to assess how measurable these definitions are (according to Feldstein's first question: "Can we create meaningful usability tests that will be simple, quick, and cheap enough?").

Therefore it is argued that a more learner-centered usability evaluation method is needed. It is suggested that such a method incorporate the following basic characteristics:

It must be built upon the creative integration of the aforementioned fields (usability and instructional design).
It must take into account the learners' perceptions themselves.
It must be short, easy to deploy so that e-learning economics can afford its use.

Training Department comments: Our e-courseware was developed with usability in mind. All facets of the our software is geared towards being intuitive for those developing the e-learning course as well as for the distance learners.

"In parallel, intense work is needed for developing new usability evaluation methods for e-learning or advancing the existing ones. So far, it seems that the major challenge is to provide a usability evaluation technique that will incorporate the three basic characteristics already mentioned in this article, and especially the third one: to provide a technique that will be short and easy to deploy so that e-learning economics can afford its use."

"The whole issue of integrating usability and learning is still in its infancy; nevertheless it is believed that relevant work will provide significant output not only for research purposes but for market developments as well."

Training Department has designed our entire system based on simplicity of usability so the focus can be on the topic of e-learning. Our library of free online course guides managers and trainers on how to develop e-courseware. Our Student Administration focuses on providing every imaginable level of communication between students and trainers or course administrators. For more information contact Training Department now.

By Panagiotis Zaharias, Department of Management Science & Technology, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece