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eLearn Magazine: Usability-Tested E-learning? Not

eLearn Magazine: Usability-Tested E-learning? Not Until the Market Requires It
The usability standards and tests that have proven their worthiness for e-commerce and other applications need to be tweaked a bit before being applied to e-learning--tools for streamlining a site so someone can book a flight with ease aren’t directly applicable to making an online biology class navigable and engaging, for example. For e-learning, “usability is not the major issue: learnability is,” says Don Norman, a professor of computer science at Northwestern University...

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