Abstract

This study describes an ongoing study related to the development of usability strategies, which specific to instructional interface application for inclusive education systems. Reviews from literatures indicate that usability strategies that are incorporated in courseware which is specifically designed to motivating inclusive learners in e-learning environment is highly scarce. It was found that most of the existing content and navigation accessibility applications including courseware focus on the needs of certain target with most of this courseware offering too little to inclusive learners in terms of information accessibility, navigation ability and motivation concepts. In addition, the use of structure, layout and navigation to improve the coursewares’ instructional interface as part of usability strategies was also problematic for them. Thus, this study aims at creating an alternative instructional interface as part of usability strategies particularly on courseware design for inclusive education systems. The study used comparative analysis technique to determine the usability strategies of instructional interface. Prior to proposed usability strategies a specific design model has to be proposed as guidance for the developer to refer to. So, this study found was to determine the usability strategies for instructional interface of C4IES by utilizing stages of activities. Future works is to validate the proposed strategies through expert review and prototyping method.

Keywords:

Instructional interface, layout, navigation, structure, usability strategies,

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