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Evaluation as Impetus for Innovations in E-learning – Applying Personas to the Design of Community Functions
The necessary intertwining between the evaluation on the one hand and the implementation of e-learning environments on the other hand is often hampered by organizational settings and political conditions. A possible solution for bridging the gap between evaluative processes of quality assurance and the creative activity of design is the Personas approach. These fictional, but data-based user archetypes serve as a foil to embed the needs of different user groups in the design process. Based on findings from evaluation research and experiences gained through a case study, the article incorporates the Personas method into an overall model of quality assurance for the design of educational web-portals. The transferability of the personas approach into other e-learning related settings is critically discussed.
Quality
- User Rating
- Comments
- Learning Exercises
- Bookmark Collections
- Course ePortfolios
- Accessibility Info
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- Material Type:
- Open (Access) Journal-Article
- Date Added to MERLOT:
- July 7, 2014
- Date Modified in MERLOT:
- June 16, 2017
- Authors:
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Stafanie Panke,
Knowledge Media Research Center
Birgit Gaiser, Knowledge Media Research Center
Benita Werner, Knowledge Media Research Center - Submitter:
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Barbra Bied Sperling
- Primary Audience:
- College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School
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- Adobe Reader for pdf
- Language:
- English
- Cost Involved:
- No
- Source Code Available:
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This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
