scholarly journals Heuristic Evaluation of an Institutional E-learning System: A Nigerian Case

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olawande Daramola ◽  
Olufunke Oladipupo ◽  
Ibukun Afolabi ◽  
Ademola Olopade
Keyword(s):  
Usability Evaluation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Heuristic Evaluation ◽  
Learning Content ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Good Learning ◽  
Nigerian University

Many African academic institutions have adopted the use of e-learning systems, since they enable students to learn at their own pace, time, and without restriction to the classroom. However, evidence of usability evaluation of e-learning systems in Africa is mostly lacking in the literature. This paper reports the experimental heuristic evaluation of the e-learning system of a Nigerian University. The objective is to demonstrate the application of expert-based usability evaluation techniques such as Heuristic evaluation for assessing the attributes of existing e-learning systems. The study revealed that while the e-learning systems has strong credentials in terms of support for Web 2.0 activities, good learning content and boasts of useful e-learning features, improvements are necessary in other areas such as interactive learning, assessment and feedback, and quality of learning content. The study adds to the body of extant knowledge in the area of usability evaluation of e-learning systems in African institutions.

Usability Evaluation of E-Learning Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 3897-3903 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirish C. Srivastava ◽  
Shalini Chandra ◽  
Hwee Ming Lam
Keyword(s):  
Interface Design ◽  
Usability Evaluation ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Heuristic Evaluation ◽  
Usability Problems ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Small Set ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Usability Evaluation Methods

Usability evaluation which refers to a series of activities that are designed to measure the effectiveness of a system as a whole, is an important step for determining the acceptance of system by the users. Usability evaluation is becoming important since both user groups, as well as tasks, are increasing in size and diversity. Users are increasingly becoming more informed and, consequently, have higher expectations from the systems. Moreover “system interface” has become a commodity and, hence, user acceptance plays a major role in the success of the system. Currently, there are various usability evaluation methods in vogue, like cognitive walkthrough, think aloud, claims analysis, heuristic evaluation, and so forth. However, for this study we have chosen heuristic evaluation because it is relatively inexpensive, logistically uncomplicated, and is often used as a discount usability-engineering tool (Nielsen, 1994). Heuristic evaluation is a method for finding usability problems in a user interface design by having a small set of evaluators examine an interface and judge its compliance with recognized usability principles. The rest of the chapter is organized as follows: we first look at the definition of e-learning, followed by concepts of usability, LCD, and heuristics. Subsequently, we introduce a methodology for heuristic usability evaluation (Reeves, Benson, Elliot, Grant, Holschuh, Kim, Kim, Lauber, & Loh, 2002), and then use these heuristics for evaluating an existing e-learning system, GETn2. We offer our recommendations for the system and end with a discussion on the contributions of our chapter.

A comprehensive literature review on the medical learning systems in the developing countries

Kybernetes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahdi Bohlouli ◽  
Omed Hassan Ahmed ◽  
Ali Ehsani ◽  
Marwan Yassin Ghafour ◽  
Hawkar Kamaran Hama ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
The Body ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Clinical Learning ◽  
Learning Mechanisms ◽  
Content Type ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Medical Learning

PurposeMany people have been dying as a result of medical errors. Offering clinical learning can lead to better medical care. Clinics have conventionally incorporated direct modality to teach personnel. However, they are now starting to take electronic learning (e-learning) mechanisms to facilitate training at work or other suitable places. The objective of this study is to identify and prioritize the medical learning system in developing countries. Therefore, this paper aims at describing a line of research for developing medical learning systems.Design/methodology/approachNowadays, organizations face fast markets' changing, competition strategies, technological innovations and accessibility of medical information. However, the developing world faces a series of health crises that threaten millions of people's lives. Lack of infrastructure and trained, experienced staff are considered essential barriers to scaling up treatment for these diseases. Promoting medical learning systems in developing countries can meet these challenges. This study identifies multiple factors that influence the success of e-learning systems from the literature. The authors have presented a systematic literature review (SLR) up to 2019 on medical learning systems in developing countries. The authors have identified 109 articles and finally selected 17 of them via article choosing procedures.FindingsThe paper has shown that e-learning systems offer significant advantages for the medical sector of developing countries. The authors have found that executive, administrative and technological parameters have substantial effects on implementing e-learning in the medical field. Learning management systems offer a virtual method of augmented and quicker interactions between the learners and teachers and fast efficient instructive procedures, using computer and Internet technologies in learning procedures and presenting several teaching-learning devices.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors have limited the search to Scopus, Google Scholar, Emerald, Science Direct, IEEE, PLoS, BMC and ABI/Inform. Many academic journals probably provide a good picture of the related articles, too. This study has only reviewed the articles extracted based on some keywords such as “medical learning systems,” “medical learning environment” and “developing countries.” Medical learning systems might not have been published with those specific keywords. Also, there is a requirement for more research with the use of other methodologies. Lastly, non-English publications have been removed. There could be more potential related papers published in languages other than English.Practical implicationsThis paper helps physicians and scholars better understand the clinical learning systems in developing countries. Also, the outcomes can aid hospital managers to speed up the implementation of e-learning mechanisms. This research might also enable the authors to have a role in the body of knowledge and experience, so weakening the picture of the developing country's begging bowl is constantly requesting help. The authors hoped that their recommendations aid clinical educators, particularly in developing countries, adopt the trends in clinical education in a changing world.Originality/valueThis paper is of the pioneers systematically reviewing the adoption of medical learning, specifically in developing countries.

scholarly journals Analisa Pemanfaatan E-Learning Menggunakan Data Statistik Pengguna Aplikasi Startup Pendidikan Selama Wabah Pandemi Covid-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-420
Author(s):  
Liszulfah Roza ◽  
Nurul Aulia ◽  
Zulherman Zulherman*
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Data ◽  
The Body ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Digital Education ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Considerable Impact ◽  
Educational Applications

The changes that happened during the epidemic due to the Central Government's and the Ministry of Education and Culture's (Kemendikbud) closure of schools had a considerable impact on the learning models and methods followed by all Indonesian students. As a result, this policy implements a digital education or e-learning system implemented during the Covid-19 outbreak, requiring students to use the internet to supplement their home education. However, the public is not well informed about the use of free learning support applications. As a result, information from online learning applications and digital education is required, as these are used as educational support tools for all students. The purpose of this study is to examine how digital learning systems, or e-learning, are used by examining the statistical data of users of a widely used educational startup application. The Teacher Room, Zenius, and Quipper applications will be examined. The research method compares three educational applications used in Indonesia that rely on secondary data from www.similiarweb.com to ascertain the number of website visits and ranking. These findings contribute to the body of knowledge regarding digital learning systems during the Covid-19 outbreak

The Role of Interactive and Synchronized Multimedia Content in E-Learning

2011 ◽  
pp. 232-250
Author(s):  
Dongsong Zhang ◽  
Lina Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Knowledge Construction ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Learning Performance ◽  
Multimedia Content ◽  
Significant Evidence ◽  
Learning Content ◽  
E Learning

Multimedia-based e-learning systems have become increasingly available. Many of them, however, do not provide sufficient interactivity to learners. E-learners have little control over learning content and process to meet their individual needs. Therefore, the challenges include how to integrate instructional material in different media, and how to provide flexible process control in an e-learning environment to enable personalized knowledge construction and improve learning effectiveness. We propose an e-learning system with interactive multimedia that can help learners better understand learning content and achieve comparable learning performance to that of classroom learning. The results from an empirical study provide significant evidence to support our proposition. The chapter also discusses several important issues towards building effective and sharable multimedia-based e-learning systems.

Factors Associated with students’ Intention to use E-Learning System: A Study from Public Universities of Lahore

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-173
Author(s):  
Shagufta Shaheen ◽  
Mubasher Muhammad Kamran ◽  
Saira Naeem ◽  
Tahir Mahmood
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Intention To Use ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
E Learning

The study's primary purpose is to explore the factors affecting the students' intention to use e-learning systems in the COVID pandemic. The model of the “Unified theory of acceptance and use of technology” (UTAUT) was used as a theoretical underpinning. The Independent variables include “performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating condition,” and the dependent variable is the intention to use e-learning systems. The quantitative data were collected from the postgraduate and undergraduate students of the public universities of Lahore. A total of n=411 students were approached, out of which the responses of only 399 were considered valid and were used for Multiple linear regression through SPSS 25. It was a cross-sectional study. It was found that almost all constructs of the model have a significant positive impact on intention to use e-learning systems.  The study's main contribution is exposing the factors that affect the acceptance and use of e-learning systems. This study has several policy implications for policy experts of higher education”.

scholarly journals POSSIBILITIES OF DEVELOPING INTERACTIVE E-LEARNING SYSTEM FOR BORDER GUARDS TRAINING IN THE STATE BORDER GUARD COLLEGE OF THE REPUBLIC OF LATVIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 45-53
Author(s):  
Mārtiņš Spridzāns ◽  
Jans Pavlovičs ◽  
Diāna Soboļeva
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
The State ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Learning Development

Efficient use of educational technology and digital learning possibilities has always been the strategic area of high importance in border guards training at the State Border Guard College of Latvia. Recently, issues related to training during the Covid-19, have spurred and revived the discussion, topicality and practical need to use the potential of e-learning opportunities which brought up unexpected, additional, previously unsolved, unexplored, challenges and tasks to border guards training. New opportunities and challenges for trainers, learners and administration of training process both in online communication and learning administration contexts. In order to find out and define further e-learning development possibilities at the State Border Guard College the authors of this research explore the scientific literature on the current research findings, methodologies, approaches on developing interactive e-learning systems in educational contexts, particularly within the sphere of law enforcement. Based on scientific literature research findings authors put forward suggestions on improving the e-learning systems for border guards training.

scholarly journals INCA: A cognitive multi-agents architecture for designing intelligent & adaptive learning systems

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thierry Nabeth ◽  
Liana Razmerita ◽  
Albert Angehrn ◽  
Claudia Roda
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Adaptive Learning ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Cognitive Agents ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Personal Agent ◽  
Adaptive Learning Systems ◽  
Multi Agents

This paper presents a cognitive multi-agents architecture called Intelligent Cognitive Agents (InCA) that was elaborated for the design of Intelligent Adaptive Learning Systems. The InCA architecture relies on a personal agent that is aware of the user's characteristics, and that coordinates the intervention of a set of expert cognitive agents (such as story telling agents, assessment agents, stimulation agents or help agents). This InCA architecture has been applied for the design of K"InCA, an e-learning system aimed at helping people to learn and adopt knowledge-sharing management practices.

Automatic Organization and Generation of Presentation Slides for E-Learning

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Sathiyamurthy ◽  
T. V. Geetha
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Content Creation ◽  
Learning Content ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Processing Techniques ◽  
The Web ◽  
Extract Information

The effectiveness of an e-learning system for distance education to a large extent depends on the relevancy and presentation of learning content to the learner. The ability to gather documents on a particular topic from the web and adapt the contents of the document to suit the learner is an important task from the content creation perspective of e-learning. For the developer of e-learning material the provision to automatically extract, organize, and present content material would improve its effectiveness. This paper proposes to extract information from documents using language processing techniques and organizing the content into appropriate presentation slides for learning purposes using domain ontology and learning oriented pedagogy ontology.

Role of Usability in E-Learning System

2015 ◽  
pp. 295-312
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ahmad Amin ◽  
Saqib Saeed
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Web Application Security ◽  
Usability Problems ◽  
Future Version ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Testing Techniques ◽  
User Friendly

Amongst open-source e-learning systems, WebGoat, a progression of OWASP, provides some room for teaching the penetration testing techniques. Yet, it is a major concern of its learners as to whether the WebGoat interface is user-friendly enough to help them acquaint themselves of the desired Web application security knowledge. This chapter encompasses a heuristic evaluation of this application to acquire the usability of contemporary version of WebGoat. In this context of evaluation, the in-house formal lab testing of WebGoat was conducted by the authors. The results highlight some important issues and usability problems that frequently pop-up in the contemporary version. The research results would be pivotal to the embedding of an operational as well as user-friendly interface for its future version.

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