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The process of evaluating the usability of e-Learning has included the use of varying instruments. These instruments have myriad factors and foci when attempting to provide an appropriate review of an e-Learning product. The variety of instruments...

"The Digital Media ZONE" is a supportive physical and virtual environment for students enrolled in digital media and web development courses taught online by faculty of the School of Information Science & Learning Technologies at the University of...

The purpose of this paper is to describe a designer’s exploratory use of an e-learning usability evaluation heuristic in the beginning processes of designing and developing a nuclear math and theory online learning environment (OLE). A team...

Evaluating e-courses can be difficult task, because there are a myriad of skills and knowledge that must be applied to the evaluation activity. Similarly, finding an evaluation tool that can be used with different types of courses has been...

The evaluation of e-learning products requires a level of preparation, forethought, and skill to which most beginning evaluators are not accustomed. Like any other project management process, planning for an evaluation takes more than just technique ...

This study aims to build new knowledge about students’ social interaction during online learning using the joint perspective of activity theory and social ability. Based upon the joint framework of activity theory and social ability, a set of serial ...

The relationship between learning satisfaction and social ability factors were explored using multivariate analysis of variance among 83 students in completely online learning courses. Results indicate that those with higher learning satisfaction...

Two completely online collaborative learning courses measured social ability at the beginning and end of the course. Course 1 had context-aware activity notification tools implemented; Course 2 did not. Course 2 demonstrated a significant decrease...

This paper is a Systems & Resources report of an ongoing design research project to both develop an activity notification system and to build new knowledge about how certain types and representations of social information influence the social nature ...

This paper is a report on the longitudinal design, development and systematic evaluation of personal pods. The personal pods are software tools to support grouping behavior in a collaborative three-dimensional virtual learning environment for...