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eLearning: Usability and Learnability of an ESP Online Course

: The application of information and communication technology in the past two decades has greatly influenced the process of learning. E-learning because of its numerous advantages has become a very popular way of realizing a better and more efficient learning and teaching. Learners nowadays use the Internet and various computer software for edutainment. Although it has proven to be quite successful method of learning in many areas, the question is what is the usability and learnability of E-learning products in teaching foreign languages. There are many web pages, software programs used as additional source of learning that help students learn English as a foreign language. This paper presents some technical and methodological experience collected in the course of adapting existing teaching material for a complete online course for the second year full-time students of Information Technology at the Polytechnic of Rijeka, Croatia. Further on the results obtained from two groups (the one that learned with the teacher and the one that was involved in an online course) are analyzed and compared, as well as the teacher's and students' expectations and results achieved. The research has not been conducted as simulation but as current course and it can be therefore considered more relevant. The students have been divided into groups respecting their wishes.

eLearning; ESP; Usability; Learnability; online course; ICT

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