Athabasca University EDDE 805: Research Seminar // Assignment 1

Assignment 1LISA HAMMERSHAIMBEDDE 805 // DR. HOVEN

eLearning in Art and Design: Perceptions and practices of lecturers in undergraduate studio based disciplines and the rhetoric of innovative practices

by: Nicos Souleles, 2011

WALLS MATTER.

How do the perceptions and practices of lecturers in relation to online learning technologies in art and design, compare and contrast with the associated rhetoric and literature of eLearning and the knowledge economy?

RESEARCH QUESTION:

B 29 LECTURERS

B 12 ART + DESIGN SPECIALTY INSTITUTIONS

B ALL HAPPENING IN THE UK

PARTICIPANTS:

B DEVELOPED IN SWEDEN

B FERENCE MARTON & COLLEAGUES

B CONCERNED WITH HOW A PHENOMENON IS PERCEIVED + THE WHY OF EACH DIFFERENT PERCEPTION.

B LOTS OF INTERVIEWS

PHENOMENOGRAPHY:

1. What do you consider elearning is about? (Probes: How can it be used? What is your understanding of it?)

2. Thinking about online learning technologies in general, what is your teaching and learning experience of them? (Probes: Do you use for teaching and learning online repositories, galleries, databases, computer-based learning? Can you give me an example of that?)

3. Can you tell me about your motivation for using online learning technologies? (Probes: Why were you thinking that? Can you give me an example of that?)

4. What is your teaching and learning approach? (Probes: What is your teaching and learning model or theory? How do you think students learn best?)

5. What is your view of elearning in studio-based disciplines? (Probes: In relation to experimentation, visual language, innovative approaches, brainstorming, show and tell. Why were you thinking that?)

6. What is your view of professional development and training in elearning? (Probes: Why were you thinking that? What are your expectations?)

B LESS RESISTANT THAN ONCE THOUGHT

B EDUCATORS NEED TRAINING

B MANY EDUCATORS USE BASIC ELEARNING

RESULTS:

B LIT REVIEW + RESOURCES

B TECHNICAL DESCRIPTIONS

B LAYS BASE FOR MANY FUTURE STUDIES

POSITIVES:

B LITTLE INFO ABOUT THE PARTICIPANT PROCESS

B NO DISCIPLINE CORRELATIONS

B NARROW RESEARCH BASE

NEGATIVES:

Living in Two Worlds: A Critical Ethnog-raphy of Academic and Proto-Professional Interactions in a Human-Computer Inter-action Design Studio

by: Colin Gray, 2014

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1. What kinds of informal interactions are occurring outside of the formal pedagogy between students (primarily in the physical studio space)?2. How do these informal interactions outside of the formal pedagogy relate to existing knowledge about critique as a signature type of studio interaction?3. What structures exist and are propagated by students, and how do these structures relate to the assumed structures of the formal pedagogy?

RESEARCH QUESTIONS:

B STEEPED IN A CULTURE

B SEEK TO “RESEARCH WITH” PARTICIPANTS NOT “ON” THEM

B LOTS OF TIME SPENT IN PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION

CRITICAL ETHNOGRAPHY

B UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDIO

B 75–85 STUDENTS / 5 FACULTY

B HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION PROGRAM, MASTERS LEVEL

FIELD + PARTICIPANTS

B DISTILLED 5 STUDENT NARRATIVES

B INFORMAL COMMUNICATION PLAYS HUGE ROLE

B PROGRAMS MUST MAKE SPACE FOR STUDENTS TO STEP UP

RESULTS:

“…the studio is not what is designed or constructed to be experienced; more accurately, the studio is what is experienced.” (Gray, 2014, p.283)

B RICH DESCRIPTIONS

B NARRATIVE FORMAT

B EXTENSIVE INFO ABOUT ETHICS + PARTICIPANTS

POSITIVES:

B ALMOST INFO OVERLOADED

B VERY CONTEXT SPECIFIC

NEGATIVES:

Constructing community within the online graphic design studio

by: Lisa Hammershaimb, TBD

1. In what ways might community matter in teaching graphic design via online studios?

2. How do students experience community formation in the online graphic design studio?

3. How do instructors facilitate community formation in the online graphic design studio?

RESEARCH QUESTIONS:

Two Dissertations Profiled

Souleles, N. (2011). Elearning in Art and Design: Perceptions and practices of lecturers in undergraduate studio-based disciplines and the rhetoric of innovative practices. (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from KITIS Technical University of Cyprus database. (http://ktisis.cut.ac.cy/jspui/handle/10488/6069)

Gray, C. (2014). Living in Two Worlds: A Critical Ethnography of Academic and Proto-Professional Interactions in a Human-Computer Interaction Design Studio. (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertation and Theses database. (UMI No. 3627833).

Phenomenography Information:

Marton, F. (1981). Phenomenography – Describing conceptions of the world around us. Instructional Science, 10, 177-200.

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