Research Methods for Co-designing Digital Learning Spaces (tawaw.org)
Research Methods for Co-designing Digital Learning Spaces (tawaw.org)
Submitter: Marguerite Koole, University of Saskatchewan, m.koole@usask.ca
Abstract:
Working alongside members of communities who are remote and/or marginalized from the dominant socio-economic powers, the long-term goal of the Decolonisation of Digital Learning Spaces project is to empower communities in choosing, adopting, developing, and/or appropriating culturally appropriate and sustainable digital learning technologies. Before we can co-envision useful options, however, we must first know what questions to ask and how to ask. It is necessary, therefore, to find appropriate, efficient, and innovative approaches to better understand community needs and values. To find suitable approaches, we are testing methods that allow the researchers to step outside their own pre-conceived understandings to avoid dominating or imposing meaning upon the participants’ understandings. In this making-and-doing presentation, we will share a poster that outlines 1) the goals and concerns that were the impetus for the project, 2) the nascent network, and 3) potential knowledge elicitation methods. For hands-on activity, we will engage participants with one particular method: the repeated single-criterion card sort method. Participants will be asked to try the card sorting method. Then, we will demonstrate analysis and discuss the advantages, disadvantages, and implications of the method. Finally, we will ask the participants for their opinions and suggestions for additional methods.
Areas of STS Scholarship: Information, Computing and Media Technology, Method and Practice, Decolonial and Postcolonial STS
Authors/Participants: Marguerite Koole, University of Saskatchewan
John Traxler, University of Wolverhampton
Shri Footring, Independent Researcher
