Thursday, 8 November 2007

Activity 18 - Reseach online education

In this activity I have been asked to research online education, I will be looking at five different websites and evaluate each of them and rank them on how well people could learn from these. I will conclude the layout, structure and the colour scheme, navigation plus the information that is being told. The reason why I will evaluate all of this is because it all helps put the website together and helps the audience understand. The websites I will be looking at are:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/

http://brs.leeds.ac.uk/~beiwww/beid.html

http://www.ukeducationonline.co.uk/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/

http://www.study-online.net/

Even though there are two websites of the 'BBC' they are completely different texts, one is for children and the other is for older people, people in year 11+



The first website I will look at is the BBC learning website.
Text: The text in this website is very easy to understand, it has all the different links on the website for the different subjects. (As shown to the left) This is good because it is showing the audience what is advertised.
Layout: The layout is very organised and very easy to read, the audience is able to look at the text of what is on the website very easily.
Structure: The stucture of the website is html, this allows the audience to understand the website as it is like any other website that they are used to.
Colour scheme: The colour scheme on this website is very boring, it uses only 3 colours for the background, even though this is alot they are grey, black and white. Even though it is easy to read it and it is clear, it doesn't really get the audience's attention to read it.
Navigation: The navigation on the pages are really easy to use and it is clear to where it goes, there is a search bar as well so if you couldn't find a certain page then you could just type it in.
Advantages:
The advantages to having this website is that it is easy to use, the audience that use it will understand the navigation and if they get stuck on how to find something they can use the search button.
Disadvantages: However, there are disadvantages, the colour scheme is really bland and doesn't really get the audience's attention.

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