The importance of Higher Education Website and its Usability

Abstract

Now-a-days the need for higher education institutions to a have a reliable, effective and attractive web presence is increasing as online technology is becoming an important part of the educational process. The higher education institutions play a vital role in the development of a society while higher education websites have a lot of roles to fill. They need to provide information for prospective students , current students, parents of students, Faculty and alumni. They often need to include reams of information in a way that makes everything easy to explore and it’s a great challenge. The purpose of this research is to highlight some points which will show the importance of higher education websites where we have studied lots of literature to be more focused on the topic and conducted a survey to evaluate the usability of two websites. The paper will be helpful for the higher authorities and the web developers to analyze the significance of the website of higher education institutes and its usability.