On technological issues affecting online learners' behavior

Issue title: Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Management

Guest editors: D.N. Kanellopoulos, S.B. Kotsiantis and P. Pintelas

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Stavrinoudis, Dimitris | Xenos, Michalis^{; *}

Affiliations: Hellenic Open University, School of Sciences & Technology, Computer Science Department, Patras, Greece

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. Tel.: +30 2610 367405; Fax: +30 2610 367520; E-mail: [email protected].

Abstract: This paper investigates the technological issues that affect the behavior of the users of an e-Learning system. In particular, it examines how user-based quality evaluation is influenced by the way the content of an e-Learning system is structured, as well as by aesthetic issues such as colors used. The paper presents a case study, in which a representative sample of users evaluated two different implementations of an e-learning system, developed particularly for the purposes of this survey. The users' evaluation focuses on three specific factors: the content structure, the navigation and the aesthetics of the system. The main aim of this paper is to determine these factors' effect on e-learning systems users' behavior by gathering and analyzing the opinions of the users who participated in this case study.

DOI: 10.3233/JCM-2008-8303

Journal: Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 183-194, 2008