Exploring the relationships between Web usability and students’ perceived learning in Web-based multimedia (WBMM) tutorials

Mackey, Thomas P.; Ho, Jinwon

doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2006.08.006

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“…Several studies indicate that multimedia is often more useful for learning and teaching than traditional text-based presentation (Lalley, 1998;Mackey & Ho, 2008;Mayer & Moreno, 2002). Therefore, multimedia learning systems, which have recently emerged as major tools for learning in educational settings, could greatly improve learners' attitudes and motivation.…”

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Investigation of learners' perceptions for video summarization and recommendation

Yang

Chen

2012

Interactive Learning Environments

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Recently, multimedia-based learning is widespread in educational settings. A number of studies investigate how to develop effective techniques to manage a huge volume of video sources, such as summarization and recommendation. However, few studies examine how these techniques affect learners' perceptions in multimedia learning systems. This article aims to examine learners' perceptions for summarization and recommendation, with an emphasis on the perspective of prior experience. In this study, we developed a multimedia content summarization and recommendation system, which can automatically extract summaries from raw video sources and recommend suitable video content to learners through emails. The results demonstrate that learners' prior experience and preferences for the presentation of document types affect their perceptions, including the enhancement of interests, the ease of information acquisition and the intention for the further use of the system. Finally, the findings are applied to develop a framework that can support for the design of multimedia learning systems.

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Section: Related Work 21 Video Summarization and Recommendationmentioning

confidence: 98%

Investigation of learners' perceptions for video summarization and recommendation

Yang

Chen

2012

Interactive Learning Environments

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“…Although products should comply with national legislation, the fact that accessibility standards focus on guidelines and checklists rather than the concepts of usability, means that it is essential that products used in the educational environment be tested by both disabled and non-disabled students. A study by Mackey and Ho (2008) demonstrated that there was a strong correlation between usability factors and the perceived improvement in learning by students using a web-based multimedia tutorial. Crowther et al (2004) argued that user testing for educational resources removed interface problems and frees the students to concentrate on the educational content.…”

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Assessing the accessibility of online learning

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Innovations in Education and Teaching International

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A wide range of tools is now available to enable teaching practitioners to create web-based educational materials from PowerPoint presentations, adding a variety of different digital media, such as audio and animation. The pilot study described in this paper compared three different systems for producing multimedia presentations from existing PowerPoint files. The resulting resources were tested by a group of disabled students and a group of non-disabled students. Our findings show that there were statistically significant differences between the two groups in relation to their interaction with the resources. In particular, the students with disabilities were significantly more active in using the available controls to customise the running of the presentations. The data suggest that future work on why students with accessibility issues made different uses of these resources could encourage practitioners' deployment of multimedia resources for the benefit of all learners.

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“…That is, they said they would not have as much room to manoeuvre with the unit guides, and could not actively and flexibly develop unit guides that were tailor-made for their students. There is some truth in this, however, surveys of students show that they want consistency and predictability in their learning (Mackey & Ho, 2008).The UNITS system forces a consistent approach while still allowing some freedom with the design of assessment and learning and teaching activities.…”

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Implementation of a Curriculum Management Tool: Challenges Faced by a Large Australian University

Lai¹,

Wood²,

Marrone³

2012

ASS

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This paper describes how a large Australian university implemented a new curriculum management tool  UNITS. UNITS is an online repository of unit guides and a curriculum mapping tool. We analyze the advantages of using a university-wide curriculum management tool and the change management processes used to develop the bespoke tool. Staff development in the use of the tool has led to more thoughtful use of learning and teaching activities and better linking of learning outcomes with assessment. To ensure a smooth transition, faculty were supported throughout the process of implementation. Drop-in clinics, video clips, discipline-specific implementation guides as well as a UNITS help page were provided. This paper contributes to the understanding of the challenges in setting up and implementing a large-scale curriculum management tool in a university. Challenges including increased workload, intellectual property concerns, impact on academic freedom and technological issues are discussed.

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Exploring the relationships between Web usability and students’ perceived learning in Web-based multimedia (WBMM) tutorials

Cited by 59 publications

References 15 publications

Investigation of learners' perceptions for video summarization and recommendation

Investigation of learners' perceptions for video summarization and recommendation

Assessing the accessibility of online learning

Implementation of a Curriculum Management Tool: Challenges Faced by a Large Australian University

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