The effective combination of hybrid usability methods in evaluating educational applications of ICT: Issues and challenges

Education and Information Technologies

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 55-76

  Tselios, Nikolaos ^a   Avouris, Nikolaos ^a   Komis, Vassilis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Courseware types; Evaluation methods; ICTE applications; Usability

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349170618     PISSN: 13602357     EISSN: 15737608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10639-007-9045-5     Document Type: Article

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