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We present a communicability guide applied to distance learning. The guide is the result of the triadic relationship between a set of commercial multimedia systems offline, a university website for E-learning, and the diachronic vision of the multimedia applications carried out for a Spanish virtual campus, whose results have demonstrated to be excellent in the costs-quality equation. The heuristic analysis of the main components makes it possible to obtain high quality in the design of hypermedia systems as well as in the communicability between the participants in the educational process, and with the cheapest use of a usability laboratory. The guide for the quality of multimedia content in a virtual learning environment represents the intersection of the following areas: human-computer interaction, usability engineering, software engineering, pedagogy and the primitives used in the design models for multimedia systems.
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Ficarra, F.V.C. (2009). Virtual Learning Environment: Quality Design for Foreign Languages in Multimedia Systems. In: Damiani, E., Jeong, J., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) New Directions in Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services - 2. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 226. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02937-0_11
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