User Evaluation of Geography Website

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

User Evaluation of Geography Website

Original language description

Another pursuit of scholars to motivate students and get them actively engaged into the learning in the environment of blended way of teaching/learning process is presented. The paper brings description of the process of website analysis from first impression through specialised tasks, evaluation based on the level of satisfaction to the final recommendations. The research area represents interdisciplinary field of developing geography knowledge and digital competences in university students via usability testing of geography websites by students themselves. Last year a research on incorporation of web-design user-testing method into the language learning process was run with students of Applied informatics and Information management study fields. Current research is a follow up stage comprising students of non-computer study field. Testing of websites offering games and quizzes on geography topics will be conducted with full-time and part-time students of Tourism management during their subject called Cultural studies on Africa and India in both environments virtual platform of learning management system and face-to-face classes. The goal of this paper is to describe a pilot phase of the whole assessment process of one of the selected websites called Shephard Software in detail. This pilot testing is supposed to reveal potential pitfalls which could be detected so that user testing of websites by students of Tourism management could be adapted accordingly to reflect needs and abilities of students with different computer competences, with different experience and behaviour. The sub-goal is to compare the outcomes and determine suitability of incorporation of websites into the process of education and define possible modifications in the content and structure of usability forms. The discussion raises questions relating to adaptation of user-testing forms, selection and a number of analysed websites.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

IN - Informatics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

European conference on e-Learning (ECEL 2016)

ISBN

978-1-911218-18-0

ISSN

2048-8637

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

114-121

Publisher name

Academic conferences

Place of publication

Reading

Event location

Prague, Czech Republic

Event date

Oct 27, 2016

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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