Despite recent advances of electronic technologies in e-learning, a consolidated evaluation methodology for e-learning applications is not available. The evaluation of educational software must consider its usability and more in general its accessibility, as well as its didactic effectiveness. This work is a first step towards the definition of a methodology for evaluating e-learning applications. Specific usability attributes capturing the peculiar features of these applications are identified. A preliminary user study involving a group of e-students, observed during their interaction with an e-learning application in a real situation, is reported. Then, the proposal is put forward to adapt to the e-learning domain a methodology for systematic usability evaluation, called SUE. Specifically, evaluation patterns are proposed that are able to drive the evaluators in the analysis of an e-learning application.

An Approach to Usability Evaluation of e-Learning Applications / Ardito, C.; Costabile, • M. F.; De Marsico, M.; Lanzilotti, R.; Levialdi, S.; Roselli, T.; Rossano, V.. - In: UNIVERSAL ACCESS IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY. - ISSN 1615-5289. - STAMPA. - 4:3(2006), pp. 270-283. [10.1007/s10209-005-0008-6]

An Approach to Usability Evaluation of e-Learning Applications

C. Ardito;
2006-01-01

Abstract

Despite recent advances of electronic technologies in e-learning, a consolidated evaluation methodology for e-learning applications is not available. The evaluation of educational software must consider its usability and more in general its accessibility, as well as its didactic effectiveness. This work is a first step towards the definition of a methodology for evaluating e-learning applications. Specific usability attributes capturing the peculiar features of these applications are identified. A preliminary user study involving a group of e-students, observed during their interaction with an e-learning application in a real situation, is reported. Then, the proposal is put forward to adapt to the e-learning domain a methodology for systematic usability evaluation, called SUE. Specifically, evaluation patterns are proposed that are able to drive the evaluators in the analysis of an e-learning application.
2006
An Approach to Usability Evaluation of e-Learning Applications / Ardito, C.; Costabile, • M. F.; De Marsico, M.; Lanzilotti, R.; Levialdi, S.; Roselli, T.; Rossano, V.. - In: UNIVERSAL ACCESS IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY. - ISSN 1615-5289. - STAMPA. - 4:3(2006), pp. 270-283. [10.1007/s10209-005-0008-6]
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