PRESENTING DIGITISED MATERIALS FOR LEARNING: BREAK-OUT SESSIONS
Having considered how digitised materials can support learning – through the
different ways of creating multimedia and of encouraging learning (see Guidelines
and Notes),
participants were divided into groups to consider the following issues:
- How will you turn your resources into an effective learning tool?
- How do you make your resource different from the rest?
- What are your concerns about creating materials supporting learning?
Whilst learning more about other participant’s projects, the groups raised the
following points or issues:
BIRMINGHAM
LEARNING GROUP 1
Overview
- Varieties of Access
- Dynamics
- Learning without realising
- Links to relevant sites
- Site design (look and feel)
- Presenting collections?
LEARNING GROUP 2
Overview
- what is practical within time
- not being too general
- plan for learning early on in project
- consult with people who understand on-line resources
- what are we providing that they couldn’t get from a book
- finding a balance
- concentration span?
- What does the user want?
NEWPORT
LEARNING GROUP 1
Overview
- Corporate standards vs. NOF requirements
- Organisation support
- Interoperability
- Lack of Technical Expertise
- Technical Language Barrier
- X-Organisation working
- Ascetic value
- Future proofing
LONDON 2/10
Key points
- Capture interest
- package information within interactivity
- user feedback/input
Exploit Uniqueness of Historical Archive (ie. from local area)
Accuracy of information and emphasis
LEARNING GROUP 1
- Identifying target audiences
- Expectations of the resource- awareness of user involvement
- Uniqueness of material
- Quality management
- Sufficient user feedback
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- Information and access- search/browse
- learning tool- more idea of journey
- breaking information into groups/themes/tours etc
- selection-evaluation
- cater for different levels
- impossible to cover every level
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- Navigation between learning resources- take people onward
- Need for contextualisation
- Think of related issues
- What question is service answering?
- Need to know something about learning process
- User needs/Audience
- Resist: ‘over-packaging’/inflexibility
- Choices of format
- learning route via interface
Limitations on depth of learning ‘approach for some types of information (eg. Legal
info.)
Heritage
LEARNING GROUP 2
- Key aim of projects is to give access to large mass of material eg. Maps- could tie in
with other projects
- Narrative/film storyboard could give extra layer of information
- Work with user groups/target
- Printed resources
- Good, layered information- means people will return
- Concerns
- how to bring ‘subject’ alive- ‘involve people!’ eg. Buildings
- how to present new content in best way- use guidelines and user groups
LEARNING GROUP 3
- How do you select materials?
- Make it fun/interactive
- Few layers; not buried
- Navigation
- Different users- adults/kids/teachers
- Different approaches
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- Testing on users (testing on non-involved partners)
- Parent + child- parent learns through helping child
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- Turning paper resources into interactive (basic skills: providing support online)
- Partnerships
- Technical concerns (internal/external support)- 101 things going on
- Types of material: maps/ image/ text records
- GIS..Gazetteer (Historical)
- Outsourcing Scanning
- Standards- Stick to what everyone else is using
YORK
LEARNING GROUP 1
Learning techniques:
- used to informal learning, but not formal
- learning in terms of professional development
- themed learning packages
- BUT can be hard to know how to take more targeted ‘learning’ approach
Concerns:
- technology dominates content
- time, diverse audiences (no time to consult!)
- creating interpretative text
- setting yourself up as an authority
- shelf-life of a theme- keeping it fresh
Why be different?
- competition
- neutrality
- access to originals
- NOT tourism based
LEARNING GROUP 2
Effective Learning Tools:
- multiple access
- different and appropriate media
- find user and level of approach
Making resources different:
- linking past and present
- regular updating
Concerns:
- self limits!!
- Ongoing time needs!!
- Living with under-estimation