Artefact 4 - Evaluation

My main concerns after gathering my results from the third artefact was that the mediums used were restricting the users learning. The videos were not of the highest quality and sometimes could not be fully recognised this I believe was because of the formats that they were in. I think that if they were better quality that the learning experience would be better and the medium would be more successful as a learning tool.

So I decided to use the same mediums again but alter the tutorials so instead of using video tutorials, I would just use still images with a voice over. Through this I would be able to include higher quality images and with the added voice over. The mediums I believe would then become suitable for learning.

I produced the tutorial then asked a group of 4 people all with different levels of knowledge concerning video editing to look at not only this new tutorial but also all the tutorials and mediums I had used previously.

There was mixed debate on what was believed to be the best medium used for instruction and also the best format (.avi, .mp4, .pda etc….). But we all decided that the video tutorials via the Internet were really useful as were the pod casts I produced. In all cases all of the mediums or formats were useful and successful when accompanied with a written guide sheet.

In the previous artefact evaluation I mentioned that the advanced users were more technologically aware and because of this it aided in their learning when learning via the smaller mediums. After the discussion and use of all the different mediums and formats the subjects believed that it didn’t matter how aware the user was of the technology they were using. It was more to do with the quality of the tutorials and mediums used for teaching.

The following 2 artefacts now are going to specifically look at the effectiveness of the artefacts.