Redefining Learning Spaces: Online and Transmedia Education
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The document discusses the evolution of learning spaces enabled by networked technologies, focusing on online and transmedia education. It highlights new expectations for education, including collaboration, personalization, and responsiveness, while providing strategies to engage students and break traditional boundaries. The use of gamified elements and narrative immersion in transmedia settings is outlined as a way to enhance learning and foster meaningful connections among students.
Redefining Learning Spaces: Online and Transmedia Education
- 1. redefining learning spaces Pamela Rutledge, PhD, MBA Fielding Graduate University @pamelarutledge Jerri Lynn Hogg, PhD Fielding Graduate University @hoggjl #mediapsych 2015 APA Annual Convention AUGUST 6-9, 2015 TORONTO, ONTARIO
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- 4. Two New Learning Spaces Enabled by Networked Technologies: Online Education Transmedia Education
- 5. 2015 APA Annual Convention AUGUST 6-9, 2015 TORONTO, ONTARIO The Bar is High for Educators Mobile devices create personalizable, on-demand, real time ‘results-only’ learning environments with no boundaries of time or geography
- 6. 2015 APA Annual Convention AUGUST 6-9, 2015 TORONTO, ONTARIO New Expectations • Relationships = authenticity • 78% trust peers; 14% trust institutional authorities • Content is co-authored • Less tolerance for hierarchies • New understanding of time and space = fast
- 7. 2015 APA Annual Convention AUGUST 6-9, 2015 TORONTO, ONTARIO “What can you teach me that I can’t teach myself?”
- 8. 2015 APA Annual Convention AUGUST 6-9, 2015 TORONTO, ONTARIO • Collaborative • Participatory • Challenging • Relevant • Responsive • Inclusive • Respectful • Deliver Value Teaching Style
- 9. 2015 APA Annual Convention AUGUST 6-9, 2015 TORONTO, ONTARIO Strategies for Breaking Boundaries • Online education – Building and managing an online environment • Transmedia strategies – East Los High – Legends of Orkney
- 10. 2015 APA Annual Convention AUGUST 6-9, 2015 TORONTO, ONTARIO Best Practice Online Education • New forms of interaction – Revalues introverts • Information in multiple media – Supports multiple learning styles • Delivering material with redundancy – Details, clarity; lack of leverage from F2F
- 11. 2015 APA Annual Convention AUGUST 6-9, 2015 TORONTO, ONTARIO Virtual Communication • Nuances of netiquette – Attribution errors • The hidden meaning in process – Usability and tech support – Speed speaks volumes
- 12. 2015 APA Annual Convention AUGUST 6-9, 2015 TORONTO, ONTARIO • A picture is worth a thousand words • Creating mentors • Connecting over ideas • Team projects
- 13. 2015 APA Annual Convention AUGUST 6-9, 2015 TORONTO, ONTARIO Transmedia Strategies
- 14. 2015 APA Annual Convention AUGUST 6-9, 2015 TORONTO, ONTARIO Whole is less than sum of the parts. Media becomes redundant and less satisfying. Whole is more than sum of the parts by creating a larger ‘storyworld,’ enhancing sense of immersion and motivating audience to seek out other parts. Traditional vs. Transmedia Models Source: http://www.tstoryteller.com/transmedia-storytelling
- 15. Anchor: Hulu Videos Website @eastloshighshow Facebook Transmedia Story: East Lost High Character Vlogs School Newspaper Instagram Tumblr Links to Resources Dance Videos
- 16. 2015 APA Annual Convention AUGUST 6-9, 2015 TORONTO, ONTARIO • Prosocial message • Strong story based on Sabido Methodology – Dramatic theory for characters and structure (Brewer) – Emotional and realistic content – Archetypal characters (Jung) – Social Learning Theory: Transitional characters model realistic change (Bandura) – Frequency allows creation of parasocial relationships (intimacy at a distance, Horton & Wohl) • Narrative stays true across media – Enhances suspension of disbelief (Bruner) The Theory of Edu-Entertainment Media
- 17. 2015 APA Annual Convention AUGUST 6-9, 2015 TORONTO, ONTARIO Addressing Social Issues
- 18. 2015 APA Annual Convention AUGUST 6-9, 2015 TORONTO, ONTARIO Multiple Platforms Expand Story
- 19. 2015 APA Annual Convention AUGUST 6-9, 2015 TORONTO, ONTARIO Case Study: Legends of Orkney
- 20. 2015 APA Annual Convention AUGUST 6-9, 2015 TORONTO, ONTARIO GamersAre Raising Gamers
- 21. 2015 APA Annual Convention AUGUST 6-9, 2015 TORONTO, ONTARIO Playing in the Flow Zone Pamela Rutledge, PhD, MBA Fielding Graduate University August 6, 2015 @pamelarutledge 53% of 4th graders admitted to reading recreationally “almost every day,” Only 20% of 8th graders could say the same.
- 22. Book Series @battlekasters Facebook Legends of Orkney Book Readings Website Links to Resources
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- 24. 2015 APA Annual Convention AUGUST 6-9, 2015 TORONTO, ONTARIO Literacy Bridge • Collaboration – Author Alane Adams & Artifact Technologies • Target – Young adult non-readers who love games • Goal – Create entry point to reading – Link storyworld to mobile game – Allow players to join book’s characters in story- consistent quests that motivate exploration
- 25. 2015 APA Annual Convention AUGUST 6-9, 2015 TORONTO, ONTARIO Location-Based Game Using Beacons Technology • Bluetooth-enabled sensors deliver content as players pass by • Encourage a range of social interactions in specific locations • Recognizes players via mobile devices • Players collect virtual cards, solve quests and cast spells • Activities link with action in books • MixbyTM Technology allows live enhancement
- 26. 2015 APA Annual Convention AUGUST 6-9, 2015 TORONTO, ONTARIO Game Play • Each quest is at a new location in Orkney storyworld • Quests teach about native people and creatures • Goal: collect all wisdom cards and learn secrets to cast Stonefire spell
- 27. 2015 APA Annual Convention AUGUST 6-9, 2015 TORONTO, ONTARIO • Target core psychological needs (Self-Determination Theory) • Autonomy: Increase Player Control • Mastery: Enhance feedback • Connectedness: Responsive game play and social interaction Breaking Boundaries
- 28. 2015 APA Annual Convention AUGUST 6-9, 2015 TORONTO, ONTARIO Integrating User Feedback • Highlight audience-character resonance for better identification and narrative immersion • Who doesn’t love a bear with a sword?
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- 30. Goal Achieved: Young Players Can’t Wait to Read the Rest of the Story
- 31. 2015 APA Annual Convention AUGUST 6-9, 2015 TORONTO, ONTARIO • Multiple pathways – Reaches broader audience – Gives fans places to explore, i..e. “rabbit holes” – Provides additional content – Teaches socially relevant skills, such as reciprocity, collaboration – Integrates learning and messaging in context of storylines – Allows fans to connect and interact – Highly social component reinforces positive peer behaviors • Immersion enhances narrative experience – Increases persuasiveness of messages – Creates intrinsic motivation to change How Does Transmedia Contribute?
- 32. redefining learning spaces Pamela Rutledge, PhD, MBA Fielding Graduate University @pamelarutledge Jerri Lynn Hogg, PhD Fielding Graduate University @hoggjl #mediapsych 2015 APA Annual Convention AUGUST 6-9, 2015 TORONTO, ONTARIO thank you