Abstract
The article addresses the issue of implementing the usability principles of educational internet resources. The paper debates the latest researches on the question concerning the search for the factors that influence the results of online education. The analysis, which we carried out, allowed us to focus on such known six criteria of usability design as Information Quality, System Navigation, System Learnability, Visual Design, Instructional Assessment, and System Interactivity and suggest the existence of the seventh criterion named Responsiveness. The research considers the principles of usability implementation following the example of the open platform of online education “Higher School Mathematics Teacher”. The answers given by 203 respondents during the survey allowed defining the direction of implementing the usability criteria on the platform. We were eager to know the opinion of teachers and students, who became the first users of the platform. The article discusses the criteria implementation while developing online courses on the platform. There was ground to conclude that when designing on-line platform courses, all seven usability subcategories are important.
Highlights
1.1 Problem statementDeveloping on-line courses is one way to a sustainable future for our society through education
We found out how we can implement the criterion Information Quality (IQ) that describes the information correspondence in the system to learners’ needs and the criterion System Learnability (SL) that characterizes education simplicity and rapidity
The Inductive Content Analysis Method helped us review the existing papers concerning the criterial basis of usability design
Summary
Developing on-line courses is one way to a sustainable future for our society through education. The subject matter and complexity of such courses differ a lot, but certain development principles and operation of educational internet resources have a lot in common. One of the most important questions while developing any of the sites is its usability. This term is used as a measure of site friendliness, its understandability, and naturalness for the user. Simplicity makes internet resources easy to perceive by users, makes it possible to carry out a fast shift to the necessary content and facilitates access to information. The research of usability issues in educational software is an important aspect of developing distant education
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