Sunday, December 01, 2002

This trend toward an industry emphasis on usability criteria in the selection of software needs to be emulated in education. Specifically, the usability of learning resources should be a major consideration in the construction of learning repositories and course management systems (and, for learning repositories, findability must also be a major concern since instructors can't begin to evaluate for use what they can't find). JH _______ Consumers start to demand usability. Patrick Thibodeau writes about the growing role of Common Industry Format for Usability Test Reports when organisations make enterprise software purchasing decisions. To quote: The Boeing Co. is changing the way it buys software and is making a product's usability the... [Column Two] 8:01:01 AM    COMMENT []