Students’ Assessment on the Usability of E-leaming Websites

Thowfeek, Mohamed Hussain; Salam, Mohamed Nainar Abdul

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.05.160

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“…Kiget et al (2014) found a positive significant relationship between learnability and usability, signifying that learnability is an important indicator for the usability assessment of an e-learning system. Besides, the value of the learnability parameter was shown to exhibit the highest score in the students' assessment of an e-learning system (Thowfeek & Salam, 2014). These lines of evidence support the importance of learnability in e-learning system evaluation.…”

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“…A consensus among researchers has been reached regarding the importance of learnability in usability assessment (Dix et al, 2003;Nielsen, 1993;Shneiderman, 1997). In particular, most researchers acknowledge that learnability is particularly important in an e-learning system due to the system complexity, intricate pedagogy and the diversity of users (Kiget, Wanyembi, & Peters, 2014;Scholtz et al, 2016;Thowfeek & Salam, 2014). Kiget et al (2014) found a positive significant relationship between learnability and usability, signifying that learnability is an important indicator for the usability assessment of an e-learning system.…”

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Assessing the Relative Importance of an E-learning system’s Usability Design Characteristics Based on Students' Preferences

Alshehri¹,

Smith²

2019

EUROPEAN J ED RES

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This study considers the interaction between an e-learning system, the Blackboard system, and the students who use it in Saudi Arabia. While previous work exists, there is limited consideration of the assessment of the preferences of e-learning system usability variables based on students' perspectives, especially in developing countries such as Saudi Arabia. This paper attempts to fill the gap by investigating the relative importance of the design criteria developed for e-learning system usability evaluation from the students' perspective in Saudi tertiary education. Based on reviewed literature, a set of usability principles was developed that have had an influence in the students' learning process and use of the e-learning system. The list includes system navigation, system learnability, visual design, information quality, instructional assessment and system interactivity. An exploratory study was carried out to identify the most important usability design characteristics from a student's perspective and then evaluate the overall usability of the current e-learning system, based on this subset. A quantitative approach was adopted to weigh usability design characteristics, based on 181 learners' perceptions. The sample consists of undergraduates who are users of a web-based e-learning system in a university in Saudi Arabia. The research instrument was tested for construct validity and reliability. The analysed results have shown that information quality is the most important dimension followed by the navigation of the e-learning system. The study has also revealed that the system learnability and visual design came third and fourth in order of importance of e-learning system usability assessment. Finally, the least important design categories that influenced the e-learning system usability assessment were instructional assessment and system interactivity. The empirical results of this study may help to provide insights for designers and evaluators leading to a more effective approach to improve the usability and uptake of the e-learning system.

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Assessing the Relative Importance of an E-learning system’s Usability Design Characteristics Based on Students' Preferences

Alshehri¹,

Smith²

2019

EUROPEAN J ED RES

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“…On the one hand, [44] claimed that most respondents highly agreed that preferable activities were those which were providing instant feedback and correction, that is also confirmed within the study of [38] about fostering learners' engagement with proper feedback. On the other hand, there are also studies that report examples of the unsuccessful effects of gamification on students' performance and attitudes in learning environment [16,31,49].…”

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Usability Metrics for Gamified E-learning Course: A Multilevel Approach

Sobodić¹,

Balaban²,

Kermek³

2018

Int. J. Emerg. Technol. Learn.

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Abstract-This paper discusses the effect of a gamified learning system for students of the master course on Web Design and Programming performed at the Faculty of Organization and Informatics. A new set of usability metrics was derived from web-based learning usability, user experience and instructional design literature and incorporated into the questionnaire which consists of three main categories: Usability, Educational Usability and User Experience. The main contribution of this paper is the development and validation of a questionnaire for measuring the usability of a gamified e-learning course from students' perspective. Usability practitioners can use the developed metrics with confidence when evaluating the design of a gamified e-learning course in order to improve students' engagement and motivation.

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“…In addition, the level of usability in a non-Arabic country was investigated [3], [40] in Turkish universities, the users found the university websites easy to use and that the websites proved to be a very useful source of information regarding the university. Arabic universities suffer from poor usability, effectiveness and learnability which are all very important to provide a smooth and spontaneous experience of these e-learning webpages [25].…”

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Evaluation of the Impact of Usability in Arabic University Websites: Comparison between Saudi Arabia and the UK

Benaida¹,

Namoun²,

Taleb³

2018

ijacsa

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Abstract-Today usability is a crucial factor that can affect any website. The purpose of this study is to explore major usability defects within Saudi university websites in comparison to British university websites from a Saudi student perspective. In addition, students are expected to achieve their goal when surfing a Saudi Arabian university website comfortably and efficiently without any complication. This study uses two methods to evaluate and measure usability problems; user testing and thinking aloud. Both methods are very useful and effective for collecting data from participants. Based on the ranking of the universities, 60 students were split evenly into three groups; each group was asked to evaluate a different pair of university websites from different ranking levels, one from the UK and the other from KSA. The evaluation performed by each group was gathered using the SUS (System Usability Scaling) questionnaire to find flaws within the usability of the website. During the experiment, the participants' opinions were collected using the thinking aloud method. The findings of this research showed that all Saudi universities in all tiers had significant problems within the usability of their websites. The most frequent problems found were, inconsistency, integration, confidence and satisfaction. Other less frequent problems that were found during this study were design concepts, easy use of websites and comfort of students. Saudi universities can learn from the differences in the quality between both sides to upgrade and redesign their website to achieve user satisfaction, therefore increasing the confidence of the users.

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Students’ Assessment on the Usability of E-leaming Websites

Cited by 42 publications

References 8 publications

Assessing the Relative Importance of an E-learning system’s Usability Design Characteristics Based on Students' Preferences

Assessing the Relative Importance of an E-learning system’s Usability Design Characteristics Based on Students' Preferences

Usability Metrics for Gamified E-learning Course: A Multilevel Approach

Evaluation of the Impact of Usability in Arabic University Websites: Comparison between Saudi Arabia and the UK

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