User-friendly instructional design tool to facilitate course planning

Agustin Francesa-Alfaro, Pedro Leiva-Chinchilla, Mario Chacón-Rivas, César Garita

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Abstract

Plan and take into account the whole picture of the course before it starts, must be a prerequisite for the instructors. At the Tecnológico de Costa Rica, a problem related to course planning has been identified it is the low detail of the courses planing, associated with the relation between the content and the competences, evaluations and learning objectives, there is not a logical flow on the courses planning. Also the tools used by instructors are not well integrated with their LMS (Learning Management System), which turns the course planning task difficult to track and reinforce. In this context, a web-based application called Instructional Design Tool has been created with the goal to aid instructors in the course planning task, making easier and guided this process by intuitive and usable tool integrated into an LMS, and based on the instructional design theories. To validate our approach, we applied System Usability Scale and eye-tracking tests. The results were interesting, inasmuch they shown the utility of the tool and some improvement points to do.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2016 11th Latin American Conference on Learning Objects and Technology, LACLO 2016
EditorsIsaac Alpizar Chacon, Mario Chacon Rivas, Cristian Cechinel, Agustin Francesa Alfaro
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781509061495
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Nov 2016
Event11th Latin American Conference on Learning Objects and Technology, LACLO 2016 - San Carlos, Costa Rica
Duration: 3 Oct 20167 Oct 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2016 11th Latin American Conference on Learning Objects and Technology, LACLO 2016

Conference

Conference11th Latin American Conference on Learning Objects and Technology, LACLO 2016
Country/TerritoryCosta Rica
CitySan Carlos
Period3/10/167/10/16

Keywords

  • E-Learning
  • Instructional Design
  • Software
  • Usability
  • dotLRN

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