Online learning is an upcoming trend in the education world today. As there is a rise in technology, so do different institutions create online classes online using sites like Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Coursera and so on.
Indiana University, school of Informatics and Computing, is one of the many schools that have chosen to get students enrolled in online classes. One of these classes is the Big Data X-informatics MOOC, which our research is based on. The main problem we are faced with that we are finding the best methods to eradicate is how to make online learning much more effective to the students.
Therefore, we are to invent ideas to create features that will improve interaction between the educational content and the user (students and professors). Firstly, surveys were made on other online educational sites like Coursera, Udemy, edX, Udacity, Duolingo, course builder, and Khan Academy. This was to observe features on these sites that enabled effective interaction with the different calibers of students and the sites, and features that did otherwise. Our findings enabled us to create new features or modify old features that enhance student-service interactivity. Furthermore, having gained knowledge from articles like “Design Principles for Visual Communication” Visual Communication,” and "Peer Instruction in CS: Research and Experience," we are using AXURE to create the near perfect design / wireframes, with the observed features, that will interact effectively with the student; hence, catalyzing efficient learning. |