Interesting development in my WTW class … A couple of weeks back, I had my students do some informal usability testing of a wiki tool. Although, they identified some problems, a few of them mentioned, perhaps not surprisingly, that they would much rather use this tool as a forum for web authoring assignments than the common default (Dreamweaver). Why? It wasn’t just price, but it was also ease of use. This ease of use is one of the points that Stewart Mader emphasizes in his inspiring book, Wikipatterns.
Filed under: Collaboration, Teaching, Usability
