USING ANP FOR COURSEWARE DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM SELECTION

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USING ANP FOR COURSEWARE DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM
SELECTION

• Nuray GIRGINER
• Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Bus. Administ.
  Dep., Turkey, girginer_at_ogu.edu.tr
• Zehra KAMISLI OZTURK
• Anadolu University Open Education Faculty,
  zkamisli_at_anadolu.edu.tr
• Gürkan OZTURK
• Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Ind. Eng. Dep.,
  Turkey gurkano_at_ogu.edu.tr
• Ali Ekrem OZKUL
• Anadolu University Open Education Faculty, Turkey
  aeozkul_at_anadolu.edu.tr

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GOAL

• Selection of an appropriate courseware
  development platform for e-learning program
  using Analytic Network Process.

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• Which is the best of the different courseware
  development platforms for a e-learning program?

Breeze
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CONTRIBUTIONS

• Determination of main and sub criteria in
  courseware development platform selection problem
  
• To suggest a hierarchical approach including
  tangible and intangible criteria (clusters) to
  evaluate different courseware development
  platforms
• To indicate applicability of ANP for like this
  multi criteria decision problem in distance
  education

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METHODOLOGYANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS

• The ANP can be used as an effective tool in those
  cases where the interactions among the elements
  of a system form a network structure. This
  network means the interaction (interdependency)
  between criteria.
• The ANP is a theory of measurement generally
  applied to the dominance of influence among
  several alternatives with respect to an attribute
  or a criterion.

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METHODOLOGYANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS

• ANP is also applied to evaluate the dominance of
  criteria with respect to a higher criterion and
  it is applied to evaluate alternatives with
  respect to a governing criterion.
• The structure of the ANP model is described by
  clusters of elements connected by their
  dependence on one another. A cluster groups
  elements that share a set of attributes. At least
  one element in each of these clusters is
  connected to some element in another cluster.
  These connections indicate the flow of influence
  between the elements.

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STEPS OF ANP

• Step 1 Model construction and problem
  structuring
• Step 2 Pair-wise comparisons matrices and
  priority
• vectors
• Step 3 Super-matrix formation
• Step 4 Selection of best alternatives

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DEFINITION OF MAIN AND SUB CRITERIA

• FINANCIAL Cost is an important dimension in the
  selection of the courseware development platform.
  
• Start-up Costs
• Ongoing Costs
• Upgrading Costs

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• INSTRUCTIONAL Web-based course management
  programs let us to track, evaluate and grade
  student activities. In the instructional main
  criterion instructor element (sub criterion)
  forms the training dimension and the student
  forms the learning dimension.
• Instructor The instructor will give his/her
  course with a courseware and also make the
  assessments. Because of this fact, for instructor
  criterion we handle two sub-criteria course and
  course assessment.
• Course
• Instructional Designing
• Planning
• Management
• Revising
• Course Assessment
• Automated Grading
• Feedback
• Questions Pool
• Quizzes
• Student Tracking

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• Student In the Web based education, in the
  field of learner the courseware development
  platform must support two main criteria
  interaction and the tools that the students can
  use in the platform.
• Interaction The related platform must include
  the components that satisfy the interaction of
  the students (course content, interaction with
  other students and with the instructors).
  Students can access to appropriate data,
  databases (in or out of the campus), linking of
  courseware, guided decision groups.
• Access
• Discussion
• e-mail
• File Submission
• Tools Students can assess the instructional
  content and the program. They can also need a
  presentation area to make their presentations and
  to construct their study area. The platform also
  includes some tools that help students to track
  their progress and learn their notes online.
• Presentation Area
• Progress Tracking
• Self Assessment
• Student Skill Building

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• TECHNICAL A Web-based courseware development
  platform must be supported wit some technical
  properties. These technical properties are
  handled in two groups as the properties essential
  for the development of the courses and essential
  for the management of the related education
  program
• Course Development Tools
• Management Tools
• VENDOR There are lots of vendors for the
  Web-based distance education intuitions to
  develop educational programs.
• Modification
• Reliability
• Technical Support
• Upgrade

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ALTERNATIVES

• Web-CT
• Breeze
• Fle3

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CONSTRUCTION OF DECISION NETWORKS
Main decision network
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• Instructor sub-decision network

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• Student sub-decision network

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PAIRWISE COMPARISONS

• The criteria are compared with respect to each
  alternative. We ask Which of the alternatives
  satisfies a criterion more? Then we ask Which of
  the two criteria is more characteristic of a
  given alternative? As it is seen, we have two
  types of questions in the comparisons
• For a given criterion, which of two courseware
  development platforms is more desirable, and how
  much more?
• For a given courseware development platform,
  which of the two criteria is more dominant or
  desirable for that platform, and how much more?
• For the given criterion course development
  tools, which of the two courseware development
  platforms is more desirable Breeze or Fle3, and
  how much more? And the first answer is given as
  Breeze is 4 times much more desirable.

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RESULTS

• The report for how alternatives fed up through
  the system gives us the values. Also, the
  normalized and ideal weights can be calculated.
  According to our decision model, WebCT is
  determined as the most appropriate courseware
  development platform based on the various main
  and sub-criteria.

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• The results for the sub networks instructor

The results for the sub networks student
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CONCLUSIONS

• In distance as well as traditional education
  institutions, courseware development platform
  selection is a strategic decision. This
  managerial decision is important as it affects
  the success of courses. So by this study
• three different courseware development platforms
  are evaluated according to multicriteria
• The applicability of ANP for this decision
  problem is demonstrated.

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CONCLUSIONS

• We provide a contribution in designing a new
  training environment for distance education
  institutions based on some courseware development
  platforms.
• The group of specialists makes pairwise
  comparisons in accordance to defined main and sub
  criteria. In the conclusion of the study, the
  priorities of each criterion are obtained and
  according to these priorities the best courseware
  development platform is determined as WebCT.
• This methodology in our study can be used for
  selection of courseware development platform.