The Usability Evaluation of Unicampus – The Romanian MOOC

Abstract

Society expects from the educational system to provide a new type of worker able to learn independently, online for their entire life – the new open lifelong learning student, but the traditional higher education is not equipped for this. Recently one possible solution was the development of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). While in Europe the MOOCs development is still behind the North American ones, in Romania they are non-existent. Started in 2014 the development of Romanian MOOC – UniCampus – by the Politehnica University of Timisoara is now the final phase. This paper presents the usability evaluation performed over UniCampus with expert and students’ evaluation. Based on this evaluation, UniCampus was further developed and enhanced and is now running more courses.