deconstructing the experience of (e)learning for delivery ecologies
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The document explores the complexities of (e)learning within various delivery ecologies, emphasizing the importance of understanding materials and user experiences in educational settings. It contrasts traditional p-learning with e-learning and m-learning, highlighting the need for effective integration of various media and methods to enhance the learning experience. The piece advocates for a dual approach of utilizing both physical and virtual interactions to achieve educational goals.
deconstructing the experience of (e)learning for delivery ecologies
- 1. deconstructing the experience of (e)learning for delivery ecologies Alan Dix Lancaster University www.hcibook.com/alan
- 2. deconstructing the experience of (e)learning for delivery ecologies • experience work – leisure – learning • golden rule of design understand your materials what’s good about e-learning? • transliteration not translation • deconstruction – reconstruction • delivery ecologies – both–and not either–or
- 4. experience • work – goal is utilitarian, but good experience helps – increased productivity, user satisfaction • leisure – experience is the goal • education – goal is learning – experience is essential part of learning – motivation, arousal, constructivism N.B. complex … e.g. slow web
- 5. Designing experience • real crackers – cheap and cheerful! – bad joke, plastic toy, paper hat – pull and bang
- 6. Designing experience • virtual crackers – cheap and cheerful – bad joke, web toy, cut-out mask – click and bang
- 7. Designing experience • virtual crackers – cheap and cheerful – bad joke, web toy, cut-out mask – click and bang
- 8. how crackers work sender fill in web form To: wxv From: .. receive email recipient closed cracker page open message recipient clicks cracker opens ... very slowly joke links open cracker page web toy mask sender watches progress
- 9. The crackers experience real cracker virtual cracker Surface elements design cheap and cheerful simple page/graphics play plastic toy and joke web toy and joke dressing up paper hat mask to cut out Experienced effects shared offered to another sent by email message co-experience pulled together sender can't see content until opened by recipient excitement cultural connotations recruited expectation hiddenness contents inside first page - no contents suspense pulling cracker slow ... page change surprise bang (when it works) WAV file (when it works)
- 11. p-learning (physical learning) • lectures • tutorials and labs (20-30) • small groups tutorials ? • individual tutorials
- 12. p-learning e-learning • lectures web • labs ? • tutorials bulletin boards & chat • individual one-to-one email translationnot transliteration
- 14. deconstruction find the real objectives • lecture • information, motivation, demonstration • group tutorial • collaboration, individual feedback • lab + personal experience, physical materials
- 15. delivery ecology • potential media & meetings e-learning: web, CD-ROM, video, email, bulletin boards, chat, webcam, streaming video/audio p-learning: weekend course, summer camp, monthly evening meeting, paper materials and books m-learning: PDA, mobile phone, WAP, SMS, 3G
- 16. reconstruction • take delivery ecology e-learning: web, CD-ROM, video, email, webcam, bulletin boards, chat, streaming video/audio p-learning: weekend course, monthly evening meeting, summer camp, paper materials and books m-learning: PDA, mobile phone, WAP, SMS, 3G • match with objectives e.g. information -> web good motivation? … face to face sessions tutorial feedback?
- 17. not just either … or … • delivery ecology – many media in the educational experience – select for experience: appropriate and available • both … and … – several available together – sequential – occasional weekend course – simultaneous – paper + computer
- 18. HCI book search • can use on its own – good advert!! • also alongside the paper book
- 19. the weekend course • Barbara McManus (UCLAN, Preston) – teaching and investigating distance learning course – IT masters for health (doctors, nurses, admin) • weekend workshop – motivation, group formation, demo, hands on – some subjects … statistics … why? • location – hotel – c.f. Open University - use ‘real’ university – professional update vs. ‘being’ a student the experience
- 20. m-learning • with Fariza Hanis Abdul Razak (@lancs) • mobile good for … – when location matters – situated learning • field trips, tour guides, data collection • just-in-time training – when location does not matter • at home, on the train • content delivery by WAP … !!! – but WAP + paper … • interaction: multiple choice, applets • media: graphics, 3G movies, voice over