Abstract

E-learning is a new medium of modern technology. As a new method of learning and acquisition of knowledge, the getaway of medium appears to be the most direct way to face the learners. A gateway must highlight the significant interaction of learning and discussion with the users . Since learners can’t comprehend the complicated programming system working behind the gateway, the visual effect and function of gateway become the primary concern for its users. In a sense, the getaway of a medium can affect the users’ learning attitude and enthusiasm when they get access to a digital medium.

This research mainly aims at evaluating the usability and practicability of the gateway of nowadays digital e-learning system in National palace Museum. This research also aims at selecting some of the most representative digitalized learning systems that are required to display their online surfing functions. After displaying their surfing capacity, some selected witnesses are invited to offer their opinions of the functionality of displayed gateways based on their own profession and knowledge. The designed questionnaire for this research is based on the combined structural and non-structural methods. The cluster analysis will be applied to evaluate all the question items in the questionnaire so as to cluster all the similar concepts of the question items. Then, the regression analysis will be applied to describe the operating differences between the inexperienced users and experienced users. After these users are evaluated based on their operating skill and technique, interviews will be conducted separately for inexperienced users and experienced users so as to find more problems of usability for the gateways. There findings will become important references for future digitalized learning plan and design. As far as the digitalized learning is concerned, the newly designed digitalized learning system will be processed for the selected testers to re-evaluate its gateway usability and functionality. The findings of this newly designed system will be compared with the original version of the system.

The research proposes that the selective items for evaluating the digitalized learning system can be based on the following aspects: (1) The Unit legibility (2) The Color Applicability (3) The Style Constancy (4) The Text Visibility (5) The Advanced Service (6) The Text Intelligibility (7) The Button Visibility (8) The Arrangement Intelligibility (9) The Visual display of the Button. (10)The Accuracy (11) The Item Visibility (12) The Operating adjustability (13) The Gateway Function (14) The informative ability (15) The Clarity of Information. After being redesigned and verified based on these standards, the original and newly versions of digitalized learning systems differ from each other significantly. And the inexperienced users and experienced users are proven to demonstrate better adjustability towards the new version of digitalized learning system. This finding proves that the assumed items proposed by this research to enhance the digitalized learning system can change the gateway for the better significantly.