PRP 1st Artefact Evauation

I believe that this method of research is a very suitable way to begin answering the question of whether or not multimedia technology and technology as a whole has an affect on learning.

I believe that the results I gather will aid me in the construction of further artefacts of which I will use to aid me answering the question at hand.

After completing around 10 questionnaires I realised that the questionnaire I had developed had flaws.

• Section 1 contains questions concerning subject matter such as age and profession.
• Section 2 contains questions about technology, what technology people own use and how often they use it.
• Section 3 contains questions concerning the Internet.
• Section 4 contains questions about mobile technology and it’s uses.
• Section 5 contains questions about education, learning styles and usages. This is where I begin experiencing problems.

Wording of the questions, the point of which I’m trying to make, what it specifically is that I’m trying to find out were only some of the problems. I was unable to gain answers from all of my candidates for all the questions this was partly due to the catchment of the people I was talking to.

However I decided that I was able to still use the questionnaire and the results gained. The idea is that the results I gather will be used as a basis for a second questionnaire of which I will use alongside the original to better my understanding of the general publics thoughts, opinions and experiences with multimedia technology within education.

I collected 60 questionnaires worth of content. I have collated the results and displayed them in the form of bar charts. From these results I can see that a large percentage of people owned computers (80%) and the same amount of people had Internet on their machines at home. And 35% of those people used their Internet connected computers for educational purposes. Each person that said they used their computer and internet for educational purposes said they found them both helpful and more interestingly more effective than more traditional methods.