THE EVALUATION OF AN E-LEARNING WEB-BASED PLATFORM

Michail N. Giannakos

2010

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.

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N. Giannakos M. (2010). THE EVALUATION OF AN E-LEARNING WEB-BASED PLATFORM . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-674-024-5, pages 433-438. DOI: 10.5220/0002799504330438


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@conference{csedu10,
author={Michail N. Giannakos},
title={THE EVALUATION OF AN E-LEARNING WEB-BASED PLATFORM},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,},
year={2010},
pages={433-438},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002799504330438},
isbn={978-989-674-024-5},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,
TI - THE EVALUATION OF AN E-LEARNING WEB-BASED PLATFORM
SN - 978-989-674-024-5
AU - N. Giannakos M.
PY - 2010
SP - 433
EP - 438
DO - 10.5220/0002799504330438