Model of usability engineering: Results and implications to MOOC's

Abstract

Distance education aims to help people learn effectively, through online courses designed with quality aspects. The new technological perspectives in educational matters, offer different ways to design the massive and open courses, these coincident like MOOC's (Massive Open Online Course). These courses are intended to facilitate learning for the user. There are several models, however one of these models used for the design of the courses is the Usability Engineering Model. The authors of this work apply and propose an improvement to the original model to design and develop a massive courses. The application of the original model yields a new version of the model, which allows to specify new elements for the design of the courses. To validate the original model, two instruments are applied, the first one consists of eight questions on the design of MOOCs. It is conceived under the concept of user centered design (UCD). The second instrument was applied to a panel of experts. It consists of 19 questions on the usability of MOOCs. The expectations of the results, are based on the proposal of the new model that mainly, is located in the user-centered design for the development of MOOCs, among other key aspects.