Usability Evaluation of a Web-based Authoring Tool for Building Intelligent Tutoring Systems
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چکیده
Authoring tools for Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) provide environments that can be used by authors-instructors who are not necessarily computer experts to easily develop cost-effective ITSs. However, the quality of the ITSs to be generated depends heavily on these authors-instructors who will provide the content for the courses. This means that authoring tools should be carefully designed, developed and evaluated in order to ensure that they are usable, friendly and effective. This paper reports on a study we conducted in order to evaluate the usability of WEAR, which is a Web-based ITS authoring tool. The results of the study were very encouraging. Authors were quite satisfied with the functionality of the system, they found it very friendly and easy to use and most importantly they stated that it could be really useful.
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