Promoting Research on Profiling Learners' Lives to Create Better Open Distance Learning (ODL) Ergonomics
| dc.contributor.author | Dzakiria, Hisham | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | Global | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-02-11T21:45:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-02-11T21:45:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-11 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper deals with fundamental purpose of improving ergonomic design for open distance learning which may impact students’ learning performance and reduces dropout rates. Within this paper, learning ergonomics refers to the interdependence of educational performance and educational design for ODL. It is about finding the ‘best-fit’ that promote and improve learning performance and ability of the learners. The issue confronting learning ergonomics is which design characteristics in the learning environment have the greatest influence on variability in learning performance. Based on the literature review, this paper suggests that through profiling of learners’ lives, we can develop better learning ergonomic in ODL. Learner's lives, a narrative impulse, establishes the importance of stories, provides students’ voice, an illustrative example of the learner’s background to embark on his or her ODL experience. Learners’ profile provides possible improvements to course design, enabler to meaningful and inviting learning, student comfort, and productivity and these attributes could offset learning frustrations. // Paper ID: 431 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11599/1785 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject | Institutional Development | en_US |
| dc.subject | Open and Distance Learning (ODL) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Learner Support | en_US |
| dc.subject | Curriculum Planning | en_US |
| dc.title | Promoting Research on Profiling Learners' Lives to Create Better Open Distance Learning (ODL) Ergonomics | en_US |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_US |