Showing posts with label ten. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ten. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
Link to article (By Jakob Nielsen)
"The ten most egregious offenses against users. Web design disasters and HTML horrors are legion, though many usability atrocities are less common than they used to be. This article presents the highlights: the very worst mistakes of Web design.
"The ten most egregious offenses against users. Web design disasters and HTML horrors are legion, though many usability atrocities are less common than they used to be. This article presents the highlights: the very worst mistakes of Web design.
- Bad Search
- PDF Files for Online Reading
- Not Changing the Color of Visited Links
- Non-Scannable Text
- Fixed Font Size
- Page Titles With Low Search Engine Visibility
- Anything That Looks Like an Advertisement
- Violating Design Conventions: Have Consistency! Jakobs Law of the Web User Experience states that "users spend most of their time on other websites." This means that they form their expectations for your site based on whats commonly done on most other site. If you deviate, your site will be harder to use and users will leave.
- Opening New Browser Windows
- Not Answering Users Questions"
If you want to know more, I recommend that you read this short but very interesting, direct, and humoristic (cool cartoonish pictures) article by Jakob Nielsen a famous web design usability guru. Thumbs Up (Except for his website, ironically )!
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Top Ten Teaching and Learning Issues 2007
HTML Version: http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm07/eqm0732.asp
PDF Version: http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EQM0732.pdf
Authors: John P. Campbell, Diana G. Oblinger, and Colleagues
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PDF Version: http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EQM0732.pdf
Authors: John P. Campbell, Diana G. Oblinger, and Colleagues
"Creating a culture of evidence tops the list of important issues as the academic technology profession moves to an “Instruction 2.0” world...EDUCAUSE Advisory Committee for Teaching and Learning (ACTL) have identified the following 10 important teaching and learning issues (2007):
- Establishing and supporting a culture of evidence
- Demonstrating improvement of learning
- Translating learning research into practice
- Selecting appropriate models and strategies for e-learning
- Providing tools to meet growing student expectations
- Providing professional development and support to new audiences
- Sharing content, applications, and application development
- Protecting institutional data
- Addressing emerging ethical challenges
- Understanding the evolving role of academic technologists"
There is little doubt that technology can play an important role in facilitating the teaching and learning process, but it can also cause mental havoc to the educators and students on the way. In short, show me the evidence of learning outcomes (or improvement) and you will get the support. Easier said than done :)
"If it aint fixed, dont be afraid to explore new ways!" I suppose that sums up the current state of higher education around the world :)
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