Creating Learner-Generated Audio and Audiovisual Content to support personal learning activities: making the transition from consumer to prosumer

This study explores the challenges faced by a cohort of five adult distance learners on a BSc in Psychology course when creating audio and audiovisual content to support personal learning activities. It describes how the design processes provided them with learning environments in which to exploit m...

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Main Author: Davis, Charles
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/26231/
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description This study explores the challenges faced by a cohort of five adult distance learners on a BSc in Psychology course when creating audio and audiovisual content to support personal learning activities. It describes how the design processes provided them with learning environments in which to exploit multiple digital and information literacies in an effort to create multimodal designs reflective of their needs as learners. The study provides valuable insights into how the participants employed a range of Web 2.0 offline and mobile technologies to mediate their meaning making activities. The findings illustrate that while the participants faced numerous challenges, they found adopting the role of designers a relatively comfortable one. However, evidence exists highlighting how the mediating presence of an expert and help resources played an important role in scaffolding the participants’ activities so that they finished the study feeling it was a positive experience. Taking the findings and the participants’ reflections into account, areas for further research are considered. These include how approaches to learning encouraging the creation of learner-generated content (LGC) might support collaborative activities as well as provide tutors with resources to distribute among future cohorts.
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spelling nottingham-262312017-10-19T13:24:06Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/26231/ Creating Learner-Generated Audio and Audiovisual Content to support personal learning activities: making the transition from consumer to prosumer Davis, Charles This study explores the challenges faced by a cohort of five adult distance learners on a BSc in Psychology course when creating audio and audiovisual content to support personal learning activities. It describes how the design processes provided them with learning environments in which to exploit multiple digital and information literacies in an effort to create multimodal designs reflective of their needs as learners. The study provides valuable insights into how the participants employed a range of Web 2.0 offline and mobile technologies to mediate their meaning making activities. The findings illustrate that while the participants faced numerous challenges, they found adopting the role of designers a relatively comfortable one. However, evidence exists highlighting how the mediating presence of an expert and help resources played an important role in scaffolding the participants’ activities so that they finished the study feeling it was a positive experience. Taking the findings and the participants’ reflections into account, areas for further research are considered. These include how approaches to learning encouraging the creation of learner-generated content (LGC) might support collaborative activities as well as provide tutors with resources to distribute among future cohorts. 2010-10-01 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/26231/1/Davis_Charles.pdf Davis, Charles (2010) Creating Learner-Generated Audio and Audiovisual Content to support personal learning activities: making the transition from consumer to prosumer. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished) Learner-Generated Audio and Audiovisual Content learner-generated content LGC personal learning prosumer learner needs
spellingShingle Learner-Generated Audio and Audiovisual Content
learner-generated content
LGC
personal learning
prosumer
learner needs
Davis, Charles
Creating Learner-Generated Audio and Audiovisual Content to support personal learning activities: making the transition from consumer to prosumer
title Creating Learner-Generated Audio and Audiovisual Content to support personal learning activities: making the transition from consumer to prosumer
title_full Creating Learner-Generated Audio and Audiovisual Content to support personal learning activities: making the transition from consumer to prosumer
title_fullStr Creating Learner-Generated Audio and Audiovisual Content to support personal learning activities: making the transition from consumer to prosumer
title_full_unstemmed Creating Learner-Generated Audio and Audiovisual Content to support personal learning activities: making the transition from consumer to prosumer
title_short Creating Learner-Generated Audio and Audiovisual Content to support personal learning activities: making the transition from consumer to prosumer
title_sort creating learner-generated audio and audiovisual content to support personal learning activities: making the transition from consumer to prosumer
topic Learner-Generated Audio and Audiovisual Content
learner-generated content
LGC
personal learning
prosumer
learner needs
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/26231/