어린이 코딩학습 사이트 <Code.org>의 사용성 평가

Abstract

The purpose of this study is a precedent research to present guidelines for whom to select a site for children's coding learning and for creating a new same contents site for children. Therefore, heuristic evaluation was conducted by collecting a list of 24 online education sites and I selected <Code.org> which can access the most diverse and rich contents free of charge. Since the site made to be studied by children, the evaluation was conducted through actual child users. The evaluation items consisted of 21 items on the interface side, 13 items on the content side. The final results were summarized through group discussion. The result is that it provides free, interesting, diverse and rich contents, is stable without constraints in most system environments, is easy and aesthetic interface design even suitable for children. According to these results, this site were evaluated as can be good advantages for children's coding learning. On the other hand, in this study, only one of the many coding education sites was selected and evaluated. Therefore, it is necessary to compare with other sites or applications in order to present more preferable guidelines.