The US eLearning market has a projected value of $11.5 billion by 2003 while the European market is expected to be worth $4 billion by 2004. However, poor usability will contribute to disappointing results for many eLearning companies.
The US eLearning market has a projected value of $11.5 billion by 2003 while the European market is expected to be worth $4 billion by 2004. However, poor usability will contribute to disappointing results for many eLearning companies.
Unusable interfaces will cost eLearning companies billions of dollars in lost revenues because many people won't be able to use their products.
The US eLearning market has a projected value of $11.5 billion by 2003 while the European market is expected to be worth $4 billion by 2004. However, poor usability will contribute to disappointing results for many eLearning companies, for the following reasons:
This paper discusses how eLearning can deploy practical usability techniques in interface design to help overcome these issues. Usability is all about making software, websites and online applications or services easy for everyone to use, including people with visual, motor, cognitive or hearing impairments.
This paper provides eLearning developers with:
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