Chief Learning Officer magazine: CLO Examines Value of Usability Testing for E-Learning; Underwriters Laboratories Provides Global Education Via the Web.CHICAGO -- E-learning has been a boon to a culturally diverse and geographically dispersed workforce. Despite its wide-spread adoption, slow user adoption, high dropout (1) On magnetic media, a bit that has lost its strength due to a surface defect or recording malfunction. If the bit is in an audio or video file, it might be detected by the error correction circuitry and either corrected or not, but if not, it is often not noticed by the human rates and flat content plague this popular learning solution. Usability testing Usability testing is a means for measuring how well people can use some human-made object (such as a web page, a computer interface, a document, or a device) for its intended purpose, i.e. usability testing measures the usability of the object. can help address these shortfalls. This Technology feature in the August issue of CLO CLO See: Collateralized Loan Obligation. magazine details how usability testing can enrich the learner experience and provide designers with methods and principles to design courses that capture and hold users' interest. A case study on Underwriters Laboratories Underwriters Laboratories Inc. is a U.S. not-for-profit, privately owned and operated product safety testing and certification organization. Based in Northbrook, Illinois, UL develops standards and test procedures for products, materials, components, assemblies, tools and examines the company's use of the Web to educate its international network of 34 affiliates. To read the article, visit www.clomedia.com. |
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