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Constructing a Usability Guidelines List for Educational Social Networks

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Social Networks are playing an important role in Education. However, many existing ones lack on ergonomics, which directly affects their potential as learning platforms. For this reason, pedagogical usability is of central importance during the development, as well as in the process of maintenance of educational social applications. As a consequence of incomplete and uneasy to use checklists for similar applications, as well as the nonexistence of usability guidelines for social networks as educational environments, this paper presents the first steps of a new usability guideline list. Feedback from the validation show that our guidelines are perceived as well constructed by experts.

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  1. Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

    Gerti Pishtari

  2. University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil

    Gilberto Lacerda Santos

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  1. The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

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  2. University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania

    Elvira Popescu

  3. City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Gerhard Hancke

  4. Department of software, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Baltasar Fernández Manjón

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Pishtari, G., Santos, G.L. (2017). Constructing a Usability Guidelines List for Educational Social Networks. In: Xie, H., Popescu, E., Hancke, G., Fernández Manjón, B. (eds) Advances in Web-Based Learning – ICWL 2017. ICWL 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10473. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66733-1_13

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