Arab Educational Information Network

The e-learning systems play a great role in the modern educational systems. E-learning refers to using electronic applications and processes to learn. The educational content such as courses is delivered via the Internet, Intranet/extranet, audio, video tape, satellite TV, and CD-ROM. The internet and educational websites are used by educators and students to support the learning process. This paper describes a new model that depends on criteria to evaluate several aspects on the educational websites to improve the quality of these websites. This new model is a practical quality model used to produce an automatic tool for the website evaluation. In this study, there is a group of criteria such as aesthetics, ease of use, identity, interactivity and communication. Each criterion from these criteria will take a real computable and measurable value. This value represents the outcome quality criteria which can be interpreted as the degree of satisfaction required. It defines a measurable score 0 or 1 that will result afterwards in an indicator value, where 0 is poor quality, 1 means excellent quality. The web quality metrics will calculate the quality indicators and provide a set of web quality scores. The automatic tool was applied to real Websites, whose results showed that the educational website which satisfies students' needs should be designed according to a set of efficiency criteria that improve the performance and the use for these websites. Assessing and comparing the complete quantitative results regarding the established goals and user standpoint. (Published abstract)