From the instructor:
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| Liwana Bringleson |
One way to ensure you understand the learners you are designing for is to create a document that describes them well. Learner Profiles describe the learners’ characteristics, competencies, limitations, and familiarity with the subject area. The information in the document should include general learner characteristics, such as age, educational level, reading proficiency, and motivation. It also should include information relevant to the subject material, such as proficiency in the prerequisite skills for the current program and interest in its content. It is also useful to know what the users' familiarity with the computer is. ( Alessi S. M. and Trollip S. R., 2000) The Detail Kit is a tool to help you create Learner Profiles and is linked from Knowledge Net. The following are the comments from IS303a students who worked on the Volcano, Library and Learning Languages projects about learner profiles.
Reference:
Alessi S.M. & Trollip S.R.(2000). Multimedia for Learning: Methods and Development. Allyn and Bacon
Content:
Concrete persons - Volcano Project
Larger sample - Learning languages Project
Learner profiles affect design - Learning Languages Project
How to get good learner profiles - Learning Languages Project
Concrete persons -
Volcano
Project
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| Dianne Robert |
Good learner profiles can be a great help in designing the prototype. The designers had better talk to real students and professors in the course instead of imaging what characteristics the learners might have. By talking to real users, it is easy to grasp the learners' features while imagination may lead to unrealistic assumptions.
Larger sample -
Learning
languages Project
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| Tai Toh |
Using a larger sample in the learner profiles could help us to understand more about widely different learners and therefore facilitate in the design.
How learner profiles affected our design
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Languages Project
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| Jane Buckingham |
The aggregated learner profiles gave us the capability to build off of several things. Users wanted concrete infomation. Users were primarily female. Users' motivation was to a) learn the language or b) fufill their degree requirements. As such, we realised that we should create a design that was fun to motivate the students who really weren't too interested in learning the language but rather to get the credit.
How to get good learner profiles -Learning
Languages Project
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| Nathan Saliwonchyk |
What we did right: : a) collected the data in a timely matter b) kept the questions clear c) kept the survey short, and eliminated extraneous questions.