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Elyssa Rachelle Morissette – ProQuest LLC, 2024
As the internet increases in size, our body of research into what visitors prefer for website design is leaving out a growing group of people. Those with visual impairments are one of the fastest growing minorities with a disability online. This extremely under-studied group uses the internet for as many different purposes as sighted users do, but…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Web Sites, Usability, Use Studies
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Gerardo Herrera; Lucía Vera; Patricia Pérez-Fuster; Arturo López-Fernández; Álvaro López; Ümit Savas-Taskesen; Nigel Newbutt – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2025
The increased availability of low-cost, standalone and immersive virtual reality (VR) can facilitate adoption in autism education. An immersive VR implementation of the individual work system (IWS) from the TEACCH® approach has the potential to be a safe and predictable environment for autistic learners with or without intellectual disability.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Students with Disabilities, Computer Simulation
Fishman, Rachel; Nguyen, Sophie – New America, 2021
In 2018, New America partnered with uAspire, a nonprofit focused on college access and affordability, to review thousands of financial aid offers from over 500 colleges and universities. The resulting report, "Decoding the Cost of College: The Case for Transparent Financial Aid Award Letters," recommended several minimum bars financial…
Descriptors: Student Costs, Student Financial Aid, Letters (Correspondence), Access to Information
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Shanmugasundaram, Suresh; Chidamabaram, Divya Preya – Africa Education Review, 2020
Recognising the usability challenges that are linked to tools like the Blackboard learning management system are significant. This paper presents the outcome of an assessment of adherence to design principles on Blackboard from the learner-user perspective at Botho University, Botswana. As the university is shifting from a conventional teaching…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Instructional Design, Integrated Learning Systems, Usability
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Mohamed, Tarek Ismail – SAGE Open, 2021
This article focuses on applying the ethics of the product features during the students' design education. Good/Bad design term is a conventional approach to discuss the ethical/unethical design values of the products. It is noted that different aspects of the product design such as visual information design, interface design, and appearance…
Descriptors: Ethics, Graphic Arts, Merchandise Information, Marketing
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Rodafinos, Angelos; Garivaldis, Filia; McKenzie, Stephen – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2018
Aim/Purpose: This paper describes the context, development, implementation, and the potential transferability of an integrated online research environment that allows its users to conduct all aspects of research online. Background: While the content of most traditional courses can be delivered online and learning outcomes can be achieved by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Research, Online Systems, Online Courses
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Abass, Olalere A.; Olajide, Samuel A.; Samuel, Babafemi O. – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2017
The traditional method of assessment (examination) is often characterized by examination questions leakages, human errors during marking of scripts and recording of scores. The technological advancement in the field of computer science has necessitated the need for computer usage in majorly all areas of human life and endeavors, education sector…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Computer System Design, Test Format, Design Requirements
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Wright, M. Keith – Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2016
There is now a preponderance of evidence suggesting that the types of online course management software (OCMS) used in purely online undergraduate college courses, do not meet the needs of younger immature students. These students often lack the learning skills necessary to succeed in such courses, nor do the popular OCMS include the vigilance…
Descriptors: Online Systems, Electronic Learning, Undergraduate Students, Courseware
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Kimmons, Royce – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2017
This study seeks to evaluate the basic Priority 1 web accessibility of all college and university websites in the US (n = 3141). Utilizing web scraping and automated content analysis, the study establishes that even in the case of high-priority, simple-to-address accessibility requirements, colleges and universities generally fail to make their…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Web Sites, Access to Education, Access to Information
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Chattergoon, Rajendra; Marion, Scott – State Education Standard, 2016
Many states and school districts are rethinking how they do educational assessment. A few are going further: attempting to build "balanced," "comprehensive," or "next-generation" assessment systems. At the same time, practitioners and researchers have long mulled the purposes and parts such systems should have. But…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Systems Development, Design Requirements, Best Practices
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AlKhuder, Shaikha B.; AlAli, Fatma H. – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2017
Training and education have evolved far beyond black boards and chalk boxes. The environment of knowledge exchange requires more than simple materials and assessments. This article is an attempt of parsing through the different aspects of e-learning, understanding the real needs, and conducting the right requirements to build the appropriate…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Needs Assessment, Design Requirements, Computer System Design
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Mavroudi, Anna; Hadzilacos, Thanasis; Kalles, Dimitris; Gregoriades, Andreas – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
This paper discusses a requirements engineering process that exemplifies teacher-led design in the case of an envisioned system for adaptive learning. Such a design poses various challenges and still remains an open research issue in the field of adaptive learning. Starting from a scenario-based elicitation method, the whole process was highly…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Teacher Developed Materials, Computer System Design, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Mäkelä, Tiina; Helfenstein, Sacha – Learning Environments Research, 2016
The present study shows how the mixed-methods approach can be used in capturing and organising learning environment (LE) characteristics for the participatory design of psychosocial and physical LEs involving learners. Theoretical constructs were tested and further elaborated on in the analysis of two similar educational design research studies:…
Descriptors: Physical Environment, Educational Environment, Participatory Research, Individual Development
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Krämer, Andreas; Böhrs, Sandra – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
This article explores the future potential for the development of online courses. The findings are based on an empirical study with 3 sample groups: (1) B2C segment in Germany, (2) B2C segment in the United States, and (3) B2B segment (international). In the first step the status quo of the use of e-learning in general and online courses in…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Expectation, Trend Analysis, Electronic Learning
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Libbrecht, Paul – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2015
Learning resources have been created to represent digital units of exchangeable materials that teachers and learners can pull from in order to support the learning processes. They resource themselves. Leveraging the web, one can often find these resources. But what characteristics do they need in order to be easily exchangeable? Although several…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Educational Resources, Teacher Competencies, Educational Practices
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