On technological issues affecting online learners' behavior

This paper investigates the technological issues that affect the behavior of the users of an e-Learning system. In particular, it examines how user-based quality evaluation is influenced by the way the content of an e-Learning system is structured, as well as by aesthetic issues such as colors used. The paper presents a case study, in which a representative sample of users evaluated two different implementations of an e-learning system, developed particularly for the purposes of this survey. The users’ evaluation focuses on three specific factors: the content structure, the navigation and the aesthetics of the system. The main aim of this paper is to determine these factors’ effect on e-learning systems users’ behavior by gathering and analyzing the opinions of the users who participated in this case study.