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Designing an Affordable Usability Test for E-Learning Modules
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O'Bryan, Corliss A.; Johnson, Donald M.; Shores-Ellis, Katrina D.; Crandall, Philip G.; Marcy, John A.; Seideman, Steve C.; Ricke, Steven C. – Journal of Food Science Education, 2010
This article provides background and an introduction to a user-centered design and usability test in an inexpensive format that allows content experts who are novices in e-learning development to perform testing on newly developed technical training modules prior to their release. The use of a small number of test participants, avoidance of…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Interfaces, Cost Effectiveness
New Approaches to Technology in HE Management
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Cobb, Chris – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2012
Most UK universities can trace their current management information systems back to significant investments made in the 1990s, largely fuelled by concerns about the millenium bug and a change from character interfaces to graphical user interfaces following the introduction of the personal computer. It was during this period that institutions also…
Descriptors: Management Information Systems, Foreign Countries, Computer Interfaces, Technology Uses in Education
Having Your Cake and Eating It: The e-Framework's Service-Oriented Approach to IT in Higher Education
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Olivier, Bill – EDUCAUSE Review, 2007
Over the last ten years, the use of the Internet has moved from a small number of specialists to the population at large, including all ages and social groups. More recently, for those with access to computers and broadband, the Internet has become almost ubiquitous, with people using it at work, on the move, and for all sorts of leisure and…
Descriptors: Internet, Access to Computers, Higher Education, Computer Interfaces
Personal Bibliographic Systems (PBS) for the PC: A Generic Survey of Features.
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Schoonbaert, Dirk – Electronic Library, 1997
Discussion of personal bibliographic systems (PBS) that manage the input, storage, retrieval, and output of bibliographic references focuses on low-cost mainstream bibliographic software for personal use or smaller libraries. Structural flexibility, indexes, printing and downloading, searching, and interface- and management-related issues are…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records, Computer Interfaces, Computer Software
CD-ROM Based Multimedia Homework Solutions and Self Test Generator.
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Rhodes, Jeffrey M.; Bell, Christopher C. – Journal of Interactive Instruction Development, 1998
Discusses a prototype multimedia application that was designed to help college students solve problems and generate practice tests for an economics textbook. Highlights include step-by-step problem solving; a friendly interface; student tracking; inexpensive development costs; examples of screen displays; and generating random, scored tests on…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Interfaces, Cost Effectiveness, Economics
Speech Recognition for A Digital Video Library.
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Witbrock, Michael J.; Hauptmann, Alexander G. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1998
Production of the meta-data supporting the Informedia Digital Video Library interface is automated using techniques derived from artificial intelligence research. Speech recognition and natural-language processing, information retrieval, and image analysis are applied to produce an interface that helps users locate information and navigate more…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Audiotape Recordings, Computer Interfaces, Computer Software