Improvement User Interface in Virtual Learning Environment

2007

Today, when an enormous number of computer-based systems exist, the human activities are being computer mediated. Usually, in designing the interface to those systems, the human-computer interaction is left behind without consideration. In this paper, a literature in human-computer interaction is to be reviewed and the technology aspect of human computer interaction is to be analyzed. Also, general design principles are to be reviewed. According to all these issues, recommendations to designing a good human-computer interface for e-learning programming environment are going to be analyzed and proposed.

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computing Education Research - Koli '08, 2008

This volume is the culmination of more than a year of planning and effort on the part of both the local organising committee and the conference chairs. However, we were not working alone. Without an active community of researchers doing quality research and writing papers, a conference like Koli has no function or purpose. Consequently, a large part of the success of Koli Calling lies in its vibrant research community. It is your submissions that have made it possible for us to select this year's crop of interesting and thought provoking contributions.

Journal of Fundamental and Applied Sciences, 2018

This study attempts to obtain the user requirements for the collection and to identify the user requirement for the EmoViLE. This VLE will to the student by improving the user experience and increasing their engagement when using the VLE, and lecturer in helping them to understa a better future plan for their learning assessment. The methodology in doing this study are Phase 1 which involved the initial study on the previous work, Phase 2 is the data collection on the user requirement, Phase 3 which involves the design process of the VLE, Phase 4 is the development phase of the VLE and Phase 5 is the testing on the prototype o expected outcome is a prototype of the VLE with the emotive interface feature that can contribute for the improvement and betterment on teaching and learning process between students and lecturer.

2021

As of March 2020, educational processes have undergone a significant transformation by moving to massive and almost exclusive use. The effects of this change have manifested themselves in the school setting, in university education, and in vocational training. All educational agencies have had to adapt very quickly to these new paradigms, to remain at the side of the students and to continue their educational activities, using new computer tools and virtual learning environments towards which, in the past, there was a lot of resistance. All teachers have had a double task: to carry out the educational program in the best possible way and above all to continue to maintain a human relationship with their students. The development and wide diffusion of ICT and communication have brought to light the need to develop new interfaces of online platforms. These trends pose a challenge to all people working with educational technologies. The role of the user interface (GUI) in e-learning is ...

The nature of computer based learning and instructional environments that support it have changed dramatically in the last decade. The growth of hypertext, hypermedia and multimedia provided the capabilities necessary for developing complex learning environments. The system described in this paper is being developed to be used in Personal Computer workstations with multimedia and network capabilities and is intended to be used in small or medium learning scenarios. The tools developed span several topics, from navigation trough desktop reality, hypermedia tools for editing and playing learning material and cooperative asynchronous and synchronous tools.

The students' success in learning not only affected by their skills, but there is also a number of important relative factors, like learning environment, teachers' instructional methods and course materials. These days with the advanced technology, computer systems have been used widely for educational purpose. Computer-based learning systems are beneficial for learning second language because the teachers can easily transfer different language skills to the learners. In language training not only the learners, but also the learning environment needs to be considered as well-prepared learning environment can motivate the students in learning. The user interface is the only bridge between the learners and the computer learning systems. Thus, design usable and easy undetectable user interface is very important for the computer-based learning systems.

The International Arab Journal of Information Technology, 2011

E-learning is one of the emerging needs of the information age. Therefore a lot of potential is seen in distance learning development. Virtual environment interface to e-learning systems have recently appeared on the Internet. Using virtual reality environment, the applications appear to be promising to e-learning tasks more nature and interactive. Also using this technology, it is possible to get a sense of three dimensional environments and level of user immersion. Extensible 3D (X3D) is the most common tool for building 3D viewing and browsing of e-learning systems. In this paper the benefits of virtual reality environment using X3D in e-learning applications are demonstrated. Those will be shown via implementing two web enabled virtual environment e-learning systems. The first one is an on-line virtual chemistry lab system. This application gives the student the ability to perform all experiments in a certain crucial. The second application is an on-line English language education system. This application gives the students the ability to learn the language audile and visual via on line interactive system. X3D is used as the main implementation tool which gives the systems users the full visualization and interactivity of all learning steps.

IT in Medicine & Education, 2009. ITIME '09. IEEE International Symposium on, 2009

Virtual reality has been successful used in real estate, urban planning and video games etc. In this paper, we proposed to build an interactive virtual e-learning environment using virtual reality technologies. With the help of multi-modal user interface, students can control their avatars to interactively communicate with virtual teachers and environment. This interactive e-learning environment can increase the autonomy of students and enhance students' interest in learning.

The gap between theory and practice in the studies of the effectiveness of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) seems to be neglected by most educators in creating interface design that is said to be very useful as a medium of delivering content to the students. Interface is one of the most important factors in delivering hypermedia learning products. It has to be carefully designed based on relevant theories. This paper intends to investigate the importance of HCI theory in designing interface design for hypermedia product as perceived by science and mathematic teachers in Universiti Brunei Darussalam. It will report on the study of interface design element based on Gestalt Law of Screen Design and Usability Attribute (Nielsen, 1993). This study also intends to look for an indicator for designing a good interface and to design a basic standard that can meet the learners' needs particularly in science subject. Data was collected from students of the Universiti Brunei Darussalam using the usability study technique.

International Design Journal

Flexible Learning in an Information Society, 2007

2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 2012

Virtual learning environments (VLEs) are online learning systems that are used to enhance a student's learning experience by providing a set of teaching, learning and communication tools. The current VLEs, however, are not fully utilised or exploited to support effective collaborative learning. This paper investigates how to build effective online collaborative virtual learning environments, by exploring the requirements of VLEs from personal users. A prototype is then created to show how the designs of current VLEs can be improved to provide the essential functionalities and ease of use.

2009

This paper analyzes several features of virtual learning environments. These tools are basic for new models of education because their basic idea is to reduce the number of hours face-to-face in the classroom and to promote remote individual work. This is the main purpose of the new European models given by the Bologna process. Four studies have been made. First of them, shows level of popularity of each environment according number of entrances in two web searchers. From this previous study, we have chosen the most popular environments and we will give the details of their features and main differences between them. We are going analyze existing environments to create online learning communities and so, promoting online learning. Next, we will show a study this type of educational social software. This study involves a questionnaire to some lecturers of our university, Polytechnic University of Valencia. Our analysis presents most important results. Then, we have studied the virtual learning environments used in the Spanish universities. It will show us which of them are more used in Spain. Finally in the last part of the paper, we will show a performance evaluation of the two main environments.

Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design

This chapter discusses the problems of electronic educational resources quality in terms of modern professional competencies shaping in E-Learning Environment. The importance of these problems due to the fact that modern society requires specialists who are not only professionally trained, but also use the "long life learning" strategy in professional self-development. Therefore, electronic resources should provide not only learning conditions for required knowledge and skills, but also have potential for customized information learning strategies generation, for planning personal achievements, self-development and self-realization. There are different evaluation procedures for digital educational resources quality inclusive two main aspects: technical specifications and instructional design. It is proposed to take into account in the evaluation system additional aspect (scorecard), which characterizes the personalization of student's educational activities, organized on the basis of electronic resources interaction. This set includes indicators of electronic educational resources quality, reflecting their ability to promote personal significant results, measured from the perspective of motivation, implementation of personal cognitive (education) requirements, disclosure of creativity and self-actualization. Conventionally, this group can be called "personalization indicators". Adaptation of such indicators group improves the quality of electronic educational resources by increasing the multiplicity and flexibility of their use in different educational contexts, taking into account the results of student's productive information activity and the diverse of their educational and informational needs and preferences.