TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring mobile UX/UI for an OER repository search engine integrated to an LMS
AU - Guzmán-Arias, Luis Carlos
AU - Solís-Céspedes, Jacqueline
AU - Francesa-Alfaro, Agustín
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/10
Y1 - 2019/10
N2 - In the information age it's natural for students to search Open Educational Resources (OER) for their own learning process from several sources, this searching must give the results with simplicity, speed and relevance, to make the information understandable in an environment free of data overload. However, although some universities make great efforts to create their own learning materials to provide the student with the resources they need, often the user's experience in repositories of OER is not suitable for the students, triggering disuse and unawareness of the generated resources. This study was conducted at the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, which aims to help students to find reliable OER, in a simple, fast and relevant way, by means of a search engine proposal integrated to the LMS platform. To achieve this, quantitative studies were conducted with student samples, first, an email survey about the characteristics of a search engine, second, a usability test of an existing repository and then a search engine's GUI integrated with an LMS was designed and validated with users so the main result was that students may have a better UX when looking for OER than with the existing one developed with the open-source software DSpace.
AB - In the information age it's natural for students to search Open Educational Resources (OER) for their own learning process from several sources, this searching must give the results with simplicity, speed and relevance, to make the information understandable in an environment free of data overload. However, although some universities make great efforts to create their own learning materials to provide the student with the resources they need, often the user's experience in repositories of OER is not suitable for the students, triggering disuse and unawareness of the generated resources. This study was conducted at the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, which aims to help students to find reliable OER, in a simple, fast and relevant way, by means of a search engine proposal integrated to the LMS platform. To achieve this, quantitative studies were conducted with student samples, first, an email survey about the characteristics of a search engine, second, a usability test of an existing repository and then a search engine's GUI integrated with an LMS was designed and validated with users so the main result was that students may have a better UX when looking for OER than with the existing one developed with the open-source software DSpace.
KW - Dotlrn
KW - Information Retrieval
KW - Integration
KW - Lms
KW - OER repository
KW - Open Educational Resources
KW - TEC Digital
KW - Usability
KW - User Experience
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85081119306
U2 - 10.1109/LACLO49268.2019.00020
DO - 10.1109/LACLO49268.2019.00020
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:85081119306
T3 - Proceedings - 14th Latin American Conference on Learning Technologies, LACLO 2019
SP - 55
EP - 62
BT - Proceedings - 14th Latin American Conference on Learning Technologies, LACLO 2019
A2 - Carreno-Leon, Monica Adriana
A2 - Sandoval-Bringas, Jesus Andres
A2 - Chacon-Rivas, Mario
A2 - Rodriguez, Francisco Javier Alvarez
A2 - Sprock, Antonio Silva
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 14th Latin American Conference on Learning Technologies, LACLO 2019
Y2 - 30 October 2019 through 1 November 2019
ER -