SENSOS-E: THE POTENTIAL AND CHALLENGES OF A MULTIMEDIA JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN EDUCATIONMaria João Silva | Sílvia Barros | Armando Silva | Manuela Pessanha

Daniela Mascarenhas | José Alexandre Pinto | Cláudia Maia LimaSchool of Education, Polytechnic of Porto, inED

7th October, 2015

Scholarly open access multimedia journal of research in education

Context:• a higher education community that is increasingly using

contents in electronic form• institutional digital repositories and open access journals have

come to play a more and more important role in making scientific research visible

Scholarly open access multimedia journal of research in education

• Aims at publishing new types of scientific papers, enabled by digital technologies

• Uses a web 2.0 approach to learning, opening the access and use of contents, in an open platform for knowledge creation and sharing (Opening up Education )

“… multimedia … allows to give voice to educational research participants, facilitating the integration of multi-sensory, emotional and performative dimensions of scientific communication”Silva, M. J. 2013. Editorial. Sensos-e, 0.

BRIEF PRESENTATION Managed by an Editorial Director and a Director of Multimedia Production

Implemented using the Platform WordPress Publishes papers in electronic format, which are built and edited online

Publishes research/innovation/development and intervention works that take advantage of the potential of an online multimedia journal

BRIEF PRESENTATION Accepts papers in four languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish and French

It allows consulting current papers and the search by author, title, volume, number, and date

Profiles of users: Administrator, Editor, Contributor, Subscriber, Author

Interface of papers’ edition and submission

AIMS OF THIS STUDY To identify and understand the potentialities and challenges of the multimedia dimension of the journal

To explore and illustrate the added value of a video in a paper to analyze, assess and illustrate the communication and

educational potentialities of the journal’s multimedia dimension

ANALYSIS OF PAPERSVol. 0, N. 0 (2013); Vol. 1, N. 1 and 2 (2014), papers already accepted for Vol.2, N.2

Criteria of analysis: i) scientific domain ii) multimedia elements (video, images, audio clips, links, other) iii) interactivity (yes, no) iv) functions of Images/Video/Sound (narrative, analytic, symbolic) v) relations of Images/Video/Sound to text (illustration, complement)

ANALYSIS OF PAPERS - SCIENTIFIC DOMAIN22 papers were analyzed 12 papers main theme is ICT in Education

With complemental themes: Didactics of Mathematics (3), Mathematics for Education (2), Didactics of Sciences (2), Robotics (1), Virtual Archeology (1), Social Geography (1), Early Education (1), Higher Education (1)

10 papers have diverse education themes: Psychology/Educational Sciences (4), Special Education (3), Multimedia

Communication (1), Didactics of Portuguese (1), Children’s Geography (1)

ANALYSIS OF PAPERS - MULTIMEDIA ELEMENTS

 Video Images Audio Clips Hyperlink

s Other *

Number of papers 11 17 1 16 5

The 5 papers centered on the use of Geogebra in Education use Geogebra applets;

Applets are light and easy to use resources.

ANALYSIS OF PAPERS - INTERACTIVITY Interactivity is considered as being present when the reader can control data or events, for instance, vary a parameter in order to see the impact on the data in a table or on a presentation graphic.

The Geogebra applets allow the reader to change the parameters of the structures and check the system behavior.

ANALYSIS OF PAPERS - FUNCTIONS OF IMAGES/VIDEO/SOUND

 Narrative Analytic Symbolic

Number of papers 11 11 9

Narrative function means the representation of actions and events. Analytic function means the “focus on the relationships between the objects of representation in terms of a part-whole structure” Symbolic function means the use of symbols (non-iconic), i.e. of conventionally associated meanings.

ANALYSIS OF PAPERS - RELATIONS OF IMAGES/VIDEO/SOUND TO TEXT

 Illustration Compleme

nt

Number of papers 8 19

In most of the papers, Images/Video/Audio Clips are used to complement the information conveyed by text

CASE STUDY - TO EXPLORE AND ILLUSTRATE THE ADDED VALUE OF A VIDEO IN A PAPER All the participant students recognized the added value of the integration of multimedia resources: Making it real ("It allowed a clearer and more concrete vision of: the task that

was presented to the students; the potential of computer simulations; the students’ difficulties, doubts and discoveries”);

A better understanding of important dimensions of teaching and learning processes ("Without the video it becomes complicated to understand the developed work, as it is hard to imagine something without seeing it. The video clarified doubts that have arisen").

CASE STUDY - TO EXPLORE AND ILLUSTRATE THE ADDED VALUE OF A VIDEO IN A PAPER

A screen of a video of the analyzed Sensos-e paper, showing a projectile motion simulation and a student’s comment

CASE STUDY - TO EXPLORE AND ILLUSTRATE THE ADDED VALUE OF A VIDEO IN A PAPER

Replicabilitythe participant students acknowledged that it was easy to understand what happened,

because "the video integrates the students’ commentaries, as well as the teachers’ questions and guidance", and that "this way, the video facilitate the replication of the study”

CASE STUDY - TO EXPLORE AND ILLUSTRATE THE ADDED VALUE OF A VIDEO IN A PAPER The participant Master students perceived video as a media element, a tool. They:understood that different media produce different messages

differentiated the media and the message contentconsidered the teacher mediation strategies, together with the computer simulations exploration strategies, as the real message content of the paper’s video and text

CONCLUSION - CHALLENGES Diversification of the papers’ range and to the need for the attraction of papers of other domains of education, such as arts education and humanities education

The increase of the use of audio clips and applets, augmenting media diversity and interactivity in the published papers

A wider use of media elements to illustrate papers’ textual information, intensifying multiple representations