Information Architecture And The Study Of Excellent Course Construction

Wurkman,an American Architect,first proposed the term of"Information Architecture"in the mid 1970s. But This concepts didn't catch people's eye at that time.and which was discovered again as the rapid development of Internet and Web, in the late 1990s."information architecture" aspect appears in the process of many large sites ' s development and construction .the site design and development are increasingly concerned about the needs of the user's information needs and site availability.With the development of social and Internet, higher education have been facing a reform from "elite education"to"public education ". The development of online education is the inevitable trend of education "Colleges and Universities Course Construction"project came into being so . A large number of Courses web sites also will be set up as a key link in the construction of Online Education.And the quality of Web sites directly affects the quality of the teaching effectiveness of On line education. But often usability Research was overlooked in many of the course Web site , the information architecture of Web site is vague, unreasonable, and so that ,the user is difficult to find useful information, which are related to a lack of guidance on IA. This research , based on IA theory,and to guide the design of Course Web site development and construction, is to address information architecture issues , such as textual information, navigation mechanism being not perfect, and so on.And to further enrich the design ideas.of site construction and development .This paper describes the concept of information architecture and its components, through the Analysis of the Course Web site, combined with the evaluation index system of education web site, conducted a study and practice of information architecture on organizational systems and navigation mechanisms and so on. This concept ,IA,will be introduced to the IA Course Web site building, breaking the traditional one-dimensional model of the Web sites building ,which Based on the concept of software engineering, hoping to improve existing quality of course Web site and to build a good Web site information framework and to increase the availability of the site, so that good resources can be a real sharing of , which also has important theoretical and practical significance to the study of excellent course construction .