Abstract
Human Factors/Ergonomics is a course for interior design students where experiential learning during course hours has customarily been a significant feature. Thus, with active engagement, students examine themselves and others relating to space/products through seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, and bodily orientation. Maintaining experiential learning has been a challenge when the course transferred to online education last semester where our main environment became the online space of the computer screen. Therefore, online educational tools were explored in order to support the class and include participation within both real and online spaces. This paper presents the rationale behind the changes of the course components from the instructional design perspective. Within this presentation, the main objectives and applications of a number of tasks, embedded within the class sessions are explained. Through these tasks, students investigated and instantly shared the positive and problematic aspects of their environments. They also analyzed their own physical characteristics and evaluated their postural features during the session. Online analytical tools allowed us to view all contributions from an expanded perspective. These tasks widened our horizons to include the students’ spaces, which enriched the class discussion with on-the-spot engagement and the ability to view all data within a very short time-span. Through the action research approach, learning effectiveness and the course design are discussed based on feedback from students. We seek possible future directions to maintain and improve spatial experiential learning which is crucial for the instructional design of similar courses.
Presenters
Burçak AltayAssistant Professor of Practice, Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, Bilkent University, Turkey Can Kultur
Instructor / Instructional Systems Design Expert, Bilkent University, Turkey
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
Design Education, Instructional Design, Human Factors, Experiential Learning
