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Learning Management System Architecture

All Learning Management Systems (LMS) were not created equal. Like most large software systems, each LMS is based on a specific architect’s view of how best to fulfil particular user requirements.

Questionnaire about usability of Learning Management System

This is a proposed questionnaire for the evaluation of the usability of a Learning Management System

Designing On-Line Learning Courses: Implications for Usability

Advances in electronic technologies offer e-learning applications the possibility to become skillful and acquire knowledge on a task. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First to review papers related to usability methods and learning theories currently used to design e-learning applications. Secondly, to draw on the author’s experience from carrying out a test with a web-based testing application in order to emphasize on three challenges for usability scholars. A review of related papers on learning theories is presented. This review leads to three challenges that need to be considered in order to realize the learner-centered interface.

Understanding the Requirements for Developing Open Source Software

This study presents an initial set of findings from an empirical study of social processes, technical system configurations, organizational contexts, and interrelationships that give rise to open software. The focus is directed at understanding the requirements for open software development efforts, and how the development of these requirements differs from those traditional to software engineering and requirements engineering. Four open software development communities are described, examined, and compared to help discover what these differences may be. Eight kinds of software informalisms are found to play a critical role in the elicitation, analysis, specification, validation, and management of requirements for developing open software systems. Subsequently, understanding the roles these software informalisms take in a new formulation of the requirements development process for open source software is the focus of this study. This focus enables considering a reformulation of the requirements engineering process and its associated artifacts or (in)formalisms to better account for the requirements for developing open source software systems.

What is User-Centered Design?

User-centered design (UCD) is an approach to design that grounds the process in information about the people who will use the product. UCD processes focus on users through the planning, design and development of a product.