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Plass, Jan L.; Salisbury, Mark W. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2002
Reviews currently available instructional systems design models and describes a new design model for Web-based knowledge management (KM) systems, based on a living-systems approach, and the mechanisms it contains for accommodating change and growth. Illustrates the application of the phases of the model in the development of a KM system with…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer System Design, Design Preferences, Educational Technology
Connolly, Christopher G. – 1999
Many universities have striven to provide their students, parents, faculty, staff, and alumni with robust, useful, and informative Web sites. Villanova University (Villanova, Pennsylvania) has spent the last 12 months overhauling its static Web site to a dynamic and individualized Web system. At the outset, the term "portal" was adopted by the…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer System Design, Computer Uses in Education, Design Preferences
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Kacmar, Charles J.; Carlson, John R. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
Results of two studies of user design preferences for link markers--entities that signify pathways to additional information in hypermedia information systems--indicate that, in general, link markers that employ color and bound objects are the most effective in communicating the existence and extent of links and are most preferred by users.…
Descriptors: Color, Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design, Design Preferences
Frick, Theodore; Kisling, Eric; Cai, Weijia; Yu, Byeong Min; Giles, Frank; Brown, J. P. – 1999
This study investigated performance differences between three different World Wide Web-based navigation models: linear, persistent, and semi-persistent menu structures. Subjects, 44 graduate and undergraduate students at Indiana University and public school teachers, were placed into one of the three navigation conditions and completed…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Comparative Analysis, Design Preferences, Higher Education
Willome, Mike – 1998
This goal of this project was to create a public school district World Wide Web site that staff and community members would use more frequently. The project included three solutions. First, 33 one-on-one and small-group training sessions were conducted to increase awareness and improve Web services. A Web-site advisory committee, which developed…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Computer Mediated Communication, Design Preferences, Elementary Secondary Education