Geeta Bose presented this paper written by Archana Narayan on Learnability Testing of Online Courses at the 3rd National Seminar on ‘eLearning and eLEarning Technologies”, (ELELTECH India) November 5-6th, 2009. This seminar was organized by Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Hyderabad and JNT University Hyderabad in association with Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Government of India.
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Time to get back to basics! Assessments is a tricky area for most IDs. Most IDs stumble when it comes to creating questions that are effective, practical yet challenging. We had a detailed post of designing effective assessment questions. For those who want a quick read about assessments and get some ideas about the role of visuals in assessments, here’s some tips, tricks and gyan! Read more…
Three Ways to Test Effectiveness Without Learners
By Archana | Jun16, 2009 | Main Articles No Comments »Have you worked on projects where you have limited access to learners? Do you roll out the course anyway? Let us first list the reasons why learner testing cannot be conducted for all projects.
- Learners may be situated halfway across the world and therefore, they are accessible only over phones/Skype/emails.
- Clients may not wish to give you direct access to their learners as they are not comfortable about this. Read more…
What is testing in a typical eLearning environment?
In a typical eLearning company, testing involves several rounds of QA. To ensure that the course is error-free, these QA rounds generate numerous defect reports. But is that all that you need to test the course for? Read more…
Kern offers two kinds of services — usability and elearning. Often our clients inquire about this holy matrimony of usability and elearning. I think usability lends itself naturally to any elearning solution. This got us into an interesting discussion about how usability impacts learning solutions.
Geeta: How do we apply the learning from usability to our elearning projects?
Ripul: Usability is a measurable attribute where we measure the usefulness of a product. We can apply the same concepts to elearning where we measure the learning ability or “learnability” of learners. The basic premise of usability is to make something easy and useful. At times, things may be easy to use, but may not be useful for the user. So, applying the same principle to elearning, we can make things easy to access as well as more learnable for learners. Read more…
