Student evaluation of web2 tools

Purpose
This project used Honey and Mumford's 4 styles of learners to support student evaluations of web 2.0 technology. This is the first stage of a project to engage students in user-centric design methods of future learning technology Method
35 student were given a 1 hour workshop on H&M learning styles. They then evaluated 12 different web2.0 tools.
Results; the full results have not been analyzed but students see these technologies as strongly supporting the theorist learning styles with lowest being reflectors.
Activist 7
Reflector 4
Theorist 11
Pragmatist 5

Further details this research was conducted to establish ways of working with students to design uses of learning technology. There are many different methods of user-centric design. There can be a weakness in this approach that users tend to use their prior knowledge with which to design or evaluate new things. In order to take them beyond this the project used H&M learning styles to give students different profiles of students to consider that are in some cases different to themselves. The students found little difficulty in understanding the different learning styles, and demonstrated this in their feedback. Students saw that theorist would benefit most from the technologies on offer, mostly by actively constructing links between resources but also by consuming the information.

Purpose
This project used Honey and Mumford's 4 styles of learners to support student evaluations of web 2.0 technology. This is the first stage of a project to engage students in user-centric design methods of future learning technology Method
35 student were given a 1 hour workshop on H&M learning styles. They then evaluated 12 different web2.0 tools.
Results; the full results have not been analyzed but students see these technologies as strongly supporting the theorist learning styles with lowest being reflectors.
Activist 7
Reflector 4
Theorist 11
Pragmatist 5

Further details this research was conducted to establish ways of working with students to design uses of learning technology. There are many different methods of user-centric design. There can be a weakness in this approach that users tend to use their prior knowledge with which to design or evaluate new things. In order to take them beyond this the project used H&M learning styles to give students different profiles of students to consider that are in some cases different to themselves. The students found little difficulty in understanding the different learning styles, and demonstrated this in their feedback. Students saw that theorist would benefit most from the technologies on offer, mostly by actively constructing links between resources but also by consuming the information.

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