Learning Activities with Semantic Hypermedia in Higher Education
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LEARNING ACTIVITIES WITH SEMANTIC HYPERMEDIA IN HIGHER EDUCATION UT AUSTIN | PORTUGAL DOCTORAL PROGRAM IN DIGITAL MEDIA By: António Carvalho Maneira 1
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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
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Social Networks
Learning Communiti
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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:
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This Special Keywords are like transitional ideas that link segments to each other.
Non-linear
Non-linear
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Multimedia
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Multimedia
Special KeywordActive
Learning
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