Evaluating the reliability and impact of a quality assurance system for E-learning courseware

Computers and Education

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1615-1627

  Sung, Yao Ting ^a   Chang, Kuo En ^a   Yu, Wen Cheng ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b HSING WU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Evaluation methodologies; Evaluation of CAL systems; Human computer interface; Teaching learning strategies

Indexed keywords

CERTIFICATION PROCESS; COURSEWARE; COURSEWARE DESIGN; DATA ANALYSIS; DESIGN CONCEPT; EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES; EVALUATION OF CAL SYSTEMS; HIGH QUALITY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACES; QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEMS; QUALITY CERTIFICATION; QUALITY SERVICES; RESEARCH DATA; TEACHING/LEARNING STRATEGIES;

DATA REDUCTION; DESIGN; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; TEACHING;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 79953272726     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2011.01.020     Document Type: Article

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