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E-Learning Usability

Mark Notess has an article on usability in e-learning in "eLearn Magazine:"

But much e-learning still has slow adoption and high dropout rates. Online learning leaves many students frustrated or unenthusiastic. The good news is that concepts and processes for addressing these shortfalls in learner experience can be found in the field of usability. In this paper, I outline ways in which the field of usability, properly understood, can help online learning fulfill its promise.

Much of the article was an introduction to usability concepts, with a little subject-specific info thrown in. I wish there was a more in-depth discussion of the specific usability issues in e-learning. Still, its an interesting article.

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