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LEARNING ACTIVITIES WITH SEMANTIC HYPERMEDIA IN HIGHER EDUCATION

UT AUSTIN | PORTUGAL DOCTORAL PROGRAM IN DIGITAL MEDIA

By: António Carvalho Maneira

Higher education: What is the problem?

What is being proposed in this project

What are the expected outcomes

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What is the problem?

World is digitally mediated

Lectures don’t work as before

Students are diverse

Digital literacy implies new skills

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Gutenberg Bible (Copy at University of Texas at Austin)4

Over 350,000 files

Over 74 million video lessons deliveredOver 2400 videos

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Distance learning

Adaptability

Social Network environment

Over 250,000 students

$4,5 billions of revenues

Global MBA on facebook

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Rich learning environments

Online learning networks

Web 2.0 allows new active learning strategies

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“people are not only assuming the role of learner, they're increasingly assuming the role of instructor as well“

Patti Shank, 20088

“the revolution in means of production, distribution, and access for media has not been accompanied by a similar revolution in syntax and semantics of media“

Lev Manovich, 20089

Story

KeywordsNon-

linear

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What is being proposed

Active learning strategy

Semantic Hypermedia Tools

Online Collaborative Work +

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What is being proposed

Teacher

Peer-to-peer

Digital Resource

s

Social Networks

Learning Communiti

es

Experts

Student

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What is being proposed

Search/Research

Develop/Manage

Share/Discuss

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Content and information

Multimedia projectContent using semantic tools

Internet

Multimedia projectTeacherPeers...

What is being proposed

A design based research approach using:

Surveys Focus groups Participant observation

Used in two different sets Radio Television and Film Department of

UT Faculty of Fine-Arts of UL 14

What is expected

Changes in students skills and attitudes

Evaluation of technological tools

Evaluation of learning activities design

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Students:

Multimedia production skills

Project management skills

Higher motivation and enjoyment

Better studying attitudes and skills

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Tools:

Usability and ease of use

Improvements to Korsakow features and interface design

Need for other tools

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Activities design:

Technology usage and needed assistance

Team work activity

Social networking

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We expect to gather data to:

Support the use of semantic hypermedia authoring tools

Support learning strategies that make use of social networking

Support and enhance active learning strategies

Enhance and develop features in a hypermedia authoring tool (Korsakow)

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"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms"

Thank you

Muriel Rukeyser

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How Korsakow works:

Special Keyword

This Special Keywords are like transitional ideas that link segments to each other.

Non-linear

Non-linear

Special Keyword

Multimedia

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Multimedia

Special KeywordActive

Learning

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