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Initial Usability Evaluation of the DigiCulture Courses on UniCampus

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We live in a fast-changing world, where we often have the feeling that we must keep ourselves studying repeatedly. A helpful solution to this human need can be the existence of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), which offer a large variety of courses that are designed to be accessible by anyone, from any location. Such courses are offered through the Erasmus + Digital Culture (DigiCulture) project, which aims to create a sustainable and efficient educational program dedicated to adult learners with low digital skills and low-qualified adults involved in the creative industries sector from Romania, Italy, Austria, Denmark, Lithuania, UK, and Ireland. The multilingual online courses are hosted on the UniCampus platform, which is the first MOOC platform in Romania open to all universities. In this paper, we present the initial usability evaluation of the DigiCulture courses, realized as a capstone project within the Multimedia Technologies master’s degree program at the Politehnica University of Timișoara (Romania). We report on its main findings and formulate some recommendations for improving the usability of the platform.

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Notes

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    http://unicampus.ro/digiculture.

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    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ro.upt.unicampus.

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    https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unicampus/id1397170089.

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The current study has been carried out in the framework of the Erasmus+ Project “Digital Culture – Improving the Digital Competences and Social Inclusion of Adults in Creative Industries”, Strategic Partnerships for higher education, (partially) founded by the European Union, Project Number 2018–1-RO01-KA204–049368.

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    Silviu Vert, Oana Rotaru, Daniela Stoica & Diana Andone

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Vert, S., Rotaru, O., Stoica, D., Andone, D. (2021). Initial Usability Evaluation of the DigiCulture Courses on UniCampus. In: Lopata, A., Gudonienė, D., Butkienė, R. (eds) Information and Software Technologies. ICIST 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1486. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88304-1_24

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