Designing On-Line Learning Courses: Implications for Usability
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چکیده
Advances in electronic technologies offer e-learning applications the possibility to become skillful and acquire knowledge on a task. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First to review papers related to usability methods and learning theories currently used to design e-learning applications. Secondly, to draw on the author’s experience from carrying out a test with a web-based testing application in order to emphasize on three challenges for usability scholars. A review of related papers on learning theories is presented. This review leads to three challenges that need to be considered in order to realize the learner-centered interface.
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