Development of the User Interface Model for e-Learning Systems to Aim Ease of Operations and Quality of Materials

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26750083
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Educational technology
• Research Institution: Osaka University (2016); University of Nagasaki (2014-2015)
• Principal Investigator: INOUE Kenji 大阪大学, 高等教育・入試研究開発センター, 特任助教(常勤) (70542033)
• Research Collaborator: SUZUKI Katsuaki
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: eラーニング / LMS / ユーザインターフェース

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, we consider the way of user interface (UI) of e-learning system from two viewpoints, the one is "ease of use", the other is "quality of education".
the first point is "ease of use", we developed a new UI that based on the “Game-nix” (ingenuity of lots of technics that anyone can start using without seeing the instruction manual like video games), for teachers the first time to use e-learning system, I designed and implemented an adaptive UI that preferentially displays necessary functions. Regarding the second "quality of education", we studied and developed a UI specialized for group work and project based learning (PBL) by considering the UI utilizing instructional design concept.

Free Research Field

教育工学