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Lori Mestre lmestre@illinois.edu

Using Mashups and Multimedia to Provide Online User Independence for all Learning Styles. Lori Mestre lmestre@illinois.edu. LOEX 39 th National Conference May 2011. Overview of Presentation . Learning Styles. Have You Taken a Learning S tyle Quiz in the Past Y ear?.

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Lori Mestre lmestre@illinois.edu

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  1. Using Mashups and Multimedia to Provide Online User Independence • for all Learning Styles Lori Mestre lmestre@illinois.edu LOEX 39th National Conference May 2011

  2. Overview of Presentation Learning Styles

  3. Have You Taken a Learning Style Quiz in the Past Year? Enter question text... • Yes • No

  4. Vark: Guide to Learning Styles

  5. What’s Your Learning Preference? • Visual • Auditory • Read/Write • Kinesthetic

  6. Learning Styles Using Vark Assessment Hispanics and Asian Americans

  7. Cultural Differences Can Influence Learning • Different Dimensions of Learning • Instructional Practices • Information Processing • Social Interaction Tendencies • Influence of Personality

  8. What’s your process for putting together a puzzle? Borders 1st?

  9. Or more by concept, color….?

  10. What’s your Process for Putting Together Puzzles? • Do all the boarders first? • Look for groupings, concepts, colors?

  11. NCSU Questionnaire (Feldman/Soloman)

  12. Results: NCSU Learning Style Assessment

  13. Acadia Institute for Teaching and Technology Visual Learner Auditory Learner • Verbal Learner

  14. Match up Learning Objects with Learning Style Preferences

  15. What Primary Learning Objects Do You Use? • Video Tutorials • Games • Podcasts • Images • Scenarios • All of the Above

  16. Discussion of Learning Objects/Mash Ups Videos Images Polls Tutorials Games Podcasts

  17. Other Mash-Ups Using Library Data- UIUC Library Google Maps- Location (Temple Univ)

  18. Study Overview

  19. Options for Learning through Multiple ModalitiesFrom a Survey to Librarians

  20. Do you Plan your ObjectsSo That a User Can Pick and Choose What To Do Next? Enter question text... • Yes • No • It Varies

  21. Do you plan your objects so that a user can pick and choose what to do next?(From a previous study)

  22. Student Involvement • Took Two Learning Style Inventories • Index of Learning Style Inventory • http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html (NC State) • Vark Questionnaire (How Do I Learn Best) • http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=questionnaire • Went through two to three tutorials • a web page static tutorial to learn how to get to and use ERIC • a Camtasia tutorial to learn how to get to and find a database through Online Research Resources • an interactive tutorials

  23. Usability Interviews by Students

  24. Student Results- Ability to Recreate Steps • “good to show us how to do something” Voki • “good to explain a concept”

  25. Tutorial with Text Based

  26. Static Tutorial Results • Scrolled up and down the page to see all the sections and what was required • Viewed images (rarely read the text) • Opened a new window to practice while they viewed the web page • Went back to web page for information • Most successful in finding information after this.

  27. Camtasia Version UIUC Tutorials http://www.library.illinois.edu/diglit/tutorial/index.html

  28. Camtasia Results • Watched without practicing • Couldn’t recreate process • Didn’t attempt to go back for assistance • Only two students were successful in the post test (graduate Asian students)

  29. Recommended Features • Pop-ups to highlight important information • Sections (chapter markings) • Questions to engage the mind • Interactivity, have students do something • Prefer the static web page to a video tutorial- more efficient– include other multimedia as options within the web page.

  30. Results- Student Usability Study Multiple Modalities • All but one had high rankings for multiple modalities. • All but one preferred the step-by-step process. • Students wanted to skim the whole thing first then find the key items.

  31. What Students Want

  32. Net Generation

  33. Suggestions

  34. Your Turn to Design a Page: What one extra thing could you add to your tutorial? Enter question text... • Short Video Clips • Short Audio Clips • Images • Scenario • Drag and Drop

  35. Which Version Would you Choose? • Version 1 • Version 2

  36. Which would you choose? • Drag and drop citation • Type in the citation

  37. What Would you Add to Accommodate More Styles? • Audio Clips • Pop up or video clip showing marked up paper • Both

  38. What Would YouAdd to Help Learners? You quote it • Animated figure to read the text • Video clip or a real person reading the text • Where to click

  39. What Are the Multimodal Features Here?

  40. Which Learning Style is Not Being Accommodated?

  41. Which Learning Style is not Being Accommodated? • Reflective • Sequential • Auditory • Global

  42. Video Clip and Practice Options

  43. Pick and Choose

  44. Assessing steps to take

  45. Many User Options

  46. Next Steps for Our Tutorials • Create more mash-ups that incorporate images, sound, and text into one learning object. • Cease talking when a pop-up appears to allow time to read and reflect on the message • Create an opening scenario or “choose a character” to help them relate to the experience. • More Interactivity: Options for them to “try it out”, including “drag and drop” elements, choose an answer, reflect and provide a response, brief quizzes, games and consequences.

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