Improving Usability of an Online Learning System by Means of Multimedia, Collaboration and Adaptation Resources
Elizabeth Sucupira Furtado, Joao Jose Vasco Furtado, Fernando Lincoln Mattos, Jean M. Vanderdonckt · IGI Global eBooks · 2003
This paper describes an adaptive and collaborative environment for helping problem solving. The main user of the environment is a teacher, here called teacher-student, who accesses the environment aiming at solving difficulties he/she encounters in the classroom. In order to improve the usability of the system during the problem-solving process, the environment provides the teacher-student with adaptive assistance by identifying what information should be provided and how it should be shown on the screen according to characteristics of the teacher-student, domain and context of use. Moreover, the teacher-student has a collaborative support that allows him/her to interact with other teacher-students.