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BibTeX citation key: wilson.272
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Wilson Ruth & Landoni Monica (2002). Electronic Textbook Design Guidelines. Glasgow : University of Strathclyde.
Added by: Laure Endrizzi 2006-03-07 18:06:03 Last edited by: Laure Endrizzi 2006-03-07 18:06:03
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Abstract
The need for best practice guidelines for the design of electronic textbooks arose from the growing availability of learning and teaching material for Higher Education in electronic format, to which students are increasingly turning as a first port of call when seeking material to support their studies. With initiatives such as the National Grid for Learning and The People's Network improving the flow of online material, it is timely to pay attention to the internal design of the resources themselves so that, once accessed, the required data can be retrieved as quickly and easily as possible.
Several other sets of guidelines exist for designing electronic resources (e.g. Jakob Nielsen's Designing Web Usability and Peter Muller's Writing Hypertext Books). EBONI's Electronic Textbook Design Guidelines, however, provide advice on preparing material for a specific audience of academics and students in Higher Education, and incorporate this audience's special requirements. As such, they are of use to:
• Writers and publishers of scholarly digital information
• Lecturers in HE
• Information professionals
• Agencies which invest in the creation of scholarly digital resources
• Electronic book hardware and software developers
• Projects and services involved in the digitisation of learning and teaching resources
The on-screen design guidelines are primarily intended to be applied to books published on the Web, but the principles will be relevant to ebooks of all descriptions and, in certain cases (e.g. Guideline 16: Provide bookmarking, highlighting and annotating functions), it is possible that only commercial ebook software companies will have the resources to comply at their disposal. They simply reflect the results of our user evaluations, and it is recognised that they will be implemented at different levels by different content developers.
It is important to note that the guidelines are not intended to establish a strict uniformity of interface for all electronic learning and teaching resources, but rather to encourage use of those styles and techniques which are most successful in terms of usability.
It should also be emphasised that this version of the guidelines is a draft and does not include feedback from the later stages of the project. A revised set will be produced incorporating these data as well as feedback from creators of digital content on various aspects of the guidelines.
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Rapport du projet de recherche EBONI : electronic textbooks on-screen interface.
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