Abstract
Web interfaces play a very important role in teaching-learning processes in virtual environments, since this is how students carry out their activity. This paper describes a web interface for online learning based on a graphic map that orients learners, tries to reduce cognitive overload, gives access to learning resources and personalizes learning. The interface was designed to guide the learning process in accordance with Shapiro’s “site map principle”. The objective of this article is to analyze the impact of such web interface on students' satisfaction with the learning process and on their academic performance. We conducted experimental research. The experiment tested the goodness of the interface among students enrolled in a Multimedia Degree in an open university. We used the T-Test, the Chi-square Test and the Kendall correlation Test. The results showed that the interface had a positive impact on students’ satisfaction and performance. It also encouraged students to take a more proactive role in their learning activity than with the “normal” interface. These results are in keeping with the features the site map principle has shown in face-to-face environments.
Highlights
Web-based learning environments have become very popular and the use of graphic representations in the design of learning resources evidences their high potential [1][2]
Graphic representations offer a rich cluster of resources with great potential to support learning activities and at the same time provide a guide to the student learning process
In part, through interactive graphic representations. It looks like Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) are still behind in the application of the interactive graphic representations
Summary
Web-based learning environments have become very popular and the use of graphic representations in the design of learning resources evidences their high potential [1][2]. Graphic representations offer a rich cluster of resources with great potential to support learning activities and at the same time provide a guide to the student learning process. Data visualization [1] is promoting website interfaces that display huge amounts of complex information in a simple and intuitive way. This is done, in part, through interactive graphic representations. Scholars and lecturers have realized the importance of understanding concepts in order to solve problems [11][12][13][14] From this perspective, it is crucial to create multimedia resources that promote and enable this type of learning. It is possible to scaffold the learning process by organizing content and program, taking account of the fact that the learning process is the structural feature [15] [16]
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