Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

2016

Publication Title

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning Washington, DC November 14-16, 2016

Pages

966-970

Conference Name

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2016, Washington, DC, United States, November 14, 2016

Abstract

This best practices session and paper describes the incorporation of Voicethread as a tool for supporting design documentation of makerspace projects among graduate distance education students in a course on informal learning. All students successfully utilized the tool to present photographic and video evidence of design processes with oral annotations, and received clarifications and feedback from peers. Students reported positive affordances of the tool in terms of marking up slides to communicate particular design decisions, sharing video as "proof" of successfully completing a particular make project and as exemplars of makers’ problem solving and thinking, documenting a linear process with media evidence as a preferred approach to written documentation for informal settings, and making comparative assessments across peer designs with the ability to question and clarify through interaction. The choice of asynchronous documentation versus synchronous collaboration is considered.

Comments

© 2016 Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. Reprinted with permission of AACE (http://www.aace.org).

Original Publication Citation

Oliver, K., & Moore, R. (2016). Supporting documentation of informal learning and making from a distance with Voicethread. Paper presented at the E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2016, Washington, DC, United States, November 14, 2016.

ORCID

0000-0002-5645-9297 (Moore)

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