Usability assessment of an e-learning courseware for basic cataloging

Authors:
X. Sherab Chen;Tingting Lu
Affiliations:
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Venue:
HCI'07 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human-computer interaction: applications and services
Year:
2007

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Abstract

A study was conducted to assess the usability of an e-learning courseware prototype. Participants of three expertise levels - novice students, experienced student workers, and domain experts - were recruited. 27 evaluated the e-learning courseware and 2 received the same training content in a face-to-face session to provide benchmark data. A total of 16 usability problems and 4 pedagogical problems were identified. Preliminary findings suggest that e-learning is a promising format for basic cataloging training and different patterns are found in the three groups of participants' evaluations of the courseware.