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    <journal-meta>
        <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFEDU</journal-id>
        <journal-title-group>
            <journal-title>Informatics in Education</journal-title>
        </journal-title-group>
        <issn pub-type="epub">1648-5831</issn>
        <issn pub-type="ppub">1648-5831</issn>
        <publisher>
            <publisher-name>VU</publisher-name>
        </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
                <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INFE213</article-id>
                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/infedu.2013.08</article-id>
                        <article-categories>
            <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
                <subject>Article</subject>
            </subj-group>
        </article-categories>
                        <title-group>
            <article-title>Organizational Approach to the Ergonomic Examination of E-Learning Modules</article-title>
        </title-group>
                        <contrib-group>
                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                <name>
                    <surname>LAVROV</surname>
                    <given-names>Evgeniy</given-names>
                </name>
                                <email xlink:href="mailto:prof_lavrov@mail.ru">prof_lavrov@mail.ru</email>
                                                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFEDU_aff_000"/>
                                            </contrib>
                        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_000">Computer Science Department, Sumy State University
2 Rimsky-Korsakov Str., Sumy, 40007, Ukraine</aff>
                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                <name>
                    <surname>KUPENKO</surname>
                    <given-names>Olena</given-names>
                </name>
                                <email xlink:href="mailto:lena@dl.sumdu.edu.ua">lena@dl.sumdu.edu.ua</email>
                                                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFEDU_aff_001"/>
                                            </contrib>
                        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_001">Computer Science Department, Sumy State University
2 Rimsky-Korsakov Str., Sumy, 40007, Ukraine</aff>
                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                <name>
                    <surname>LAVRYK</surname>
                    <given-names>Tetiana</given-names>
                </name>
                                <email xlink:href="mailto:metodist@dl.sumdu.edu.ua">metodist@dl.sumdu.edu.ua</email>
                                                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFEDU_aff_002"/>
                                            </contrib>
                        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_002">Faculty of Skills Upgrading and Postgraduate Education, Sumy State University
2 Rimsky-Korsakov Str., Sumy, 40007, Ukraine</aff>
                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                <name>
                    <surname>BARCHENKO</surname>
                    <given-names>Natalia</given-names>
                </name>
                                <email xlink:href="mailto:surock@mail.ru">surock@mail.ru</email>
                                                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFEDU_aff_003"/>
                                            </contrib>
                        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_003">Department of Cybernetics and Informatics, Sumy National Agrarian University
160, Kirova Str., Sumy, 40021, Ukraine</aff>
                                </contrib-group>
                                                                                                                                                                <volume>12</volume>
                                <issue>1</issue>
                                    <fpage>105</fpage>
                        <lpage>123</lpage>
						<pub-date pub-type="epub">
                        <day>15</day>
                                    <month>04</month>
                        <year>2013</year>
        </pub-date>
                                                        <abstract>
                        <p>With a significant increase in the number of e-learning resources the issue of quality is of current importance. An analysis of existing scientific and methodological literature shows the variety of approaches, methods and tools to evaluate e-learning materials. This paper proposes an approach based on the procedure for estimating parameters of local factors and receiving the integral index of usability quality of e-learning modules. We present a mathematical model which serves as a basis for the automated procedures for expertise. The use of fuzzy logic allows to reduce greatly the complexity of evaluating the formation of a repository of e-learning modules. The proposed approach is focused on the situation, when the university has amassed a large number of e-learning modules that have to be assessed in terms of ergonomics; is able to use experts in ergonomics and organization of e-learning (the experts can provide, as a rule, qualitative assessment); is limited in resources on the development of special software for evaluation of e-learning modules; is forced by the need to reduce the cost of expertise to be limited to considering only the main quality indicators that have the greatest impact on the ergonomics of e-learning modules. For automation of the ergonomic examination procedures a MatLab system is used, in particular Fuzzy Logic Toolbox. </p>
                        <p>Application of the well-known mathematical tools and widely used means of processing expert qualitative assessments can significantly reduce the cost of the expertise.</p>
                    </abstract>
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            <label>Keywords</label>
                        <kwd>e-learning module</kwd>
                        <kwd>expertise</kwd>
                        <kwd>usability evaluation</kwd>
                        <kwd>fuzzy logic</kwd>
                    </kwd-group>
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