Author:
Michail N. Giannakos
Affiliation:
Ionian Univarsity, Greece
Keyword(s):
Evaluation, Usefulness, Usability, e-Learning, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Pedagogical usability, Presentation, Hypermediality, User’s activity, Application proactivity, Learning effectiveness calculator, e-Learning platform.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Computer-Supported Education
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Course/Program Evaluation
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Social Context and Learning Environments
Abstract:
In recent years, designing useful learning diagnosis systems has become a hot research topic. In order to help teachers and designers to create useful e-learning environment we tried to find an evaluation method that would evaluate an applications’ usefulness and also its pedagogical abilities. Because one evaluator (typically a teacher, designer or planer) can hardly be an expert on all fields of science, a multidisciplinary evaluation framework has been created to help the evaluators to address the critical factors of quality of e-learning. The purpose of this paper is to describe an evaluation system based on usability and pedagogical usability evaluation of e-learning. The evaluation framework and the prototype have been tested at the Department of Informatics at Ionian University, in the courses of Mathematical Modelling.