ERIC Number: EJ1410157
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-1449-3098
EISSN: EISSN-1449-5554
Evaluating and Expanding Usability and User Satisfaction of an Online Research Portal
Christopher J. Holt; Zahra Aziz; Stephen McKenzie; Filia Garivaldis; Alice L. Gornall; Jennifer Chung; Matthew Mundy
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, v39 n4 p1-15 2023
Whilst online learning has gained rapid momentum, the development of online technology and practices that support the delivery of online courses with a large research component has been slow. In 2017, the School of Psychological Sciences at Monash University, Australia, developed a potentially scalable and transferable online research portal. This is an all-in-one platform that is designed to facilitate and support online research and research supervision, for supervisors and students. The research portal has evolved to currently provide research and research supervision support to over 700 online psychology students at the university. This paper describes the development, implementation and impact of the research portal and presents data from a preliminary evaluation of its usability and user satisfaction. Both research students and supervisors from the fully online fourth-year Graduate Diploma of Psychology Advanced program at Monash University participated in a series of focus groups, individual usability testing sessions, and surveys, and reported favourably on the research portal's research supervisor and supervisee user satisfaction and usability. Qualitative and quantitative feedback provided useful information supporting research portal improvement and expansion possibilities, allowing an increasingly valuable contribution to online research supervision, research and research teaching.
Descriptors: Usability, User Satisfaction (Information), Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Psychology, Online Systems, Technology Uses in Education, Supervisors, Graduate Students, Research, Supervision
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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