Dear colleagues, have you built learning activities into your Museum web site? Was it important for you to be able to demonstrate the effectiveness of your designs? Did you test the designs during development, and/or after they were completed? Are you willing to share some of your experiences? I am writing a paper for Museums and the Web 2007 that explores how we can predict what learning is likely to result from particular web site designs and how important it is to do so. My thesis is that we need to formatively test designs during development to ensure they deliver what they are supposed to, and this applies as much to learning activities as to any other part of the site. We cannot test if we don't know what the design is intended to achieve. So if Im right then specifying learning outcomes is essential when we are designing websites that encourage and support learning. But I could be wrong which is why I'm keen to hear from you.
To make it easier for you to reply there is a small questionnaire at http://146.227.82.82:8080/opinio/s?s=102 It's only 10 questions and most of them have multiple choice answers. Many thanks for your help, Stephen Professor Stephen Brown Director, Knowledge Media Design De Montfort University Portland 2.3a The Gateway Leicester LE1 9BH UK Tel +44 (0)116 257 7173 Fax +44(0) 116 250 6101 mob +44 (0)7989 948230 http://kmd.dmu.ac.uk
