User-centered design of online learning communities

User-centered design (UCD) is gaining popularity in both the educational and business sectors. This is due to the fact that UCD sheds light on the entire process of analyzing, planning, designing, developing, using, evaluating, and maintaining computer-based learning. This book explains how computer...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: IGI Global.
Other Authors: Lambropoulos, Niki, 1966-, Zaphiris, Panayiotis.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2007.
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Summary:User-centered design (UCD) is gaining popularity in both the educational and business sectors. This is due to the fact that UCD sheds light on the entire process of analyzing, planning, designing, developing, using, evaluating, and maintaining computer-based learning. This book explains how computers can be used to augment human intellect for productivity and innovation, both nationally and globally. It gives guidance to all stakeholders involved in online learning: organizations and businesses, developers, tutors, students, and evaluators; as well as provides best practices for the different phases of developing online learning communities from the analysis and design phase to the development, use, evaluation, and maintenance stage.
Physical Description:electronic texts (xv, 403 p. : ill.) : digital files.
Also available in print.
Format:Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1599043602 (ebook)
9781599043609 (ebook)
Access:Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.