Towards Developing a Framework to Analyze the Qualities of the University Websites
The website of a university is considered to be a virtual gateway to provide primary resources to its stakeholders. It can play an indispensable role in disseminating information about a university to a variety of audience at a time. Thus, the quality of an academic website requires special attentio...
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| author | Maliha Rashida Kawsarul Islam A. S. M. Kayes Mohammad Hammoudeh Mohammad Shamsul Arefin Mohammad Ashfak Habib |
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| description | The website of a university is considered to be a virtual gateway to provide primary resources to its stakeholders. It can play an indispensable role in disseminating information about a university to a variety of audience at a time. Thus, the quality of an academic website requires special attention to fulfil the users’ need. This paper presents a multi-method approach of quality assessment of the academic websites, in the context of universities of Bangladesh. We developed an automated web-based tool that can evaluate any academic website based on three criteria, which are as follows: content of information, loading time and overall performance. Content of information contains many sub criteria, such as university vision and mission, faculty information, notice board and so on. This tool can also perform comparative analysis among several academic websites and generate a ranked list of these. To the best of our knowledge, this is the very first initiative to develop an automated tool for accessing academic website quality in context of Bangladesh. Beside this, we have conducted a questionnaire-based statistical evaluation among several universities to obtain the respective users’ feedback about their academic websites. Then, a ranked list is generated based on the survey result that is almost similar to the ranked list got from the University ranking systems. This validates the effectiveness of our developed tool in accessing academic website. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3e2c197835b34fe4b6a9ca663bdcea5d2023-11-21T17:19:03ZengMDPI AGComputers2073-431X2021-04-011055710.3390/computers10050057Towards Developing a Framework to Analyze the Qualities of the University WebsitesMaliha Rashida0Kawsarul Islam1A. S. M. Kayes2Mohammad Hammoudeh3Mohammad Shamsul Arefin4Mohammad Ashfak Habib5Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Chittagong 4349, BangladeshDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Chittagong 4349, BangladeshDepartment of Computer Science and Information Technology, La Trobe University, Bundoora 3086, AustraliaDepartment of Computing and Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester M15 6BH, UKDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Chittagong 4349, BangladeshDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Chittagong 4349, BangladeshThe website of a university is considered to be a virtual gateway to provide primary resources to its stakeholders. It can play an indispensable role in disseminating information about a university to a variety of audience at a time. Thus, the quality of an academic website requires special attention to fulfil the users’ need. This paper presents a multi-method approach of quality assessment of the academic websites, in the context of universities of Bangladesh. We developed an automated web-based tool that can evaluate any academic website based on three criteria, which are as follows: content of information, loading time and overall performance. Content of information contains many sub criteria, such as university vision and mission, faculty information, notice board and so on. This tool can also perform comparative analysis among several academic websites and generate a ranked list of these. To the best of our knowledge, this is the very first initiative to develop an automated tool for accessing academic website quality in context of Bangladesh. Beside this, we have conducted a questionnaire-based statistical evaluation among several universities to obtain the respective users’ feedback about their academic websites. Then, a ranked list is generated based on the survey result that is almost similar to the ranked list got from the University ranking systems. This validates the effectiveness of our developed tool in accessing academic website.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-431X/10/5/57web crawlingquality analysiscontent of informationuniversity website |
| spellingShingle | Maliha Rashida Kawsarul Islam A. S. M. Kayes Mohammad Hammoudeh Mohammad Shamsul Arefin Mohammad Ashfak Habib Towards Developing a Framework to Analyze the Qualities of the University Websites Computers web crawling quality analysis content of information university website |
| title | Towards Developing a Framework to Analyze the Qualities of the University Websites |
| title_full | Towards Developing a Framework to Analyze the Qualities of the University Websites |
| title_fullStr | Towards Developing a Framework to Analyze the Qualities of the University Websites |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards Developing a Framework to Analyze the Qualities of the University Websites |
| title_short | Towards Developing a Framework to Analyze the Qualities of the University Websites |
| title_sort | towards developing a framework to analyze the qualities of the university websites |
| topic | web crawling quality analysis content of information university website |
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