B3 – Information Architecture for hierarchical courses
Issue Definition
The Information Architecture (IA) influences users’ navigation and their
consequent learning.
IA indeed indicates the correlation among pages, i.e., the overall
structure and organization of the e-learning material. In the literature,
IA is seen as a five-step process, where the identification of the system
requirements and of the user’s profile and task are as important as the
definition of the navigation structure, of process mapping and of content
design.
Information
collection and structuring is a step that occurs, in this process, before
a navigational organization can ever be defined. In this respect, three
possible content organizations are:
linear,
hierarchical and network organization.The
choice of the organization to adopt strictly depends on the nature of
the content.
Guideline Text
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Course Plan should reflect course material organisation
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1.a
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Build the course navigation pattern taking into account that it will affect users’ navigation
behaviour and final learning
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1.b
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Build the course navigation structure taking into account the nature of the content material and of its
organization
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