Mobilapplikationers potentiale til understøttelse af specialeprocessen

Abstract

Med afsæt i en case om udviklingen af en mobilapplikation til at understøtte specialestuderendes proces argumenterer artiklens forfattere for, at der eksisterer et stort og uudnyttet potentiale i forhold til at udvikle læringsunderstøttende apps til smartphones, ikke mindst når det gælder læreprocesser, der foregår uden for skemalagte undervisningsforløb på universitetsuddannelserne, såsom specialeforløbet. En gennemgang af den pædagogiske litteratur om specialeprocessen skaber grundlag for at vie begreberne personalisering og motivation særlig opmærksomhed i forhold til specialeapp-casen. Central to this article is the case of developing a mobile application to support the process of writing a Master’s thesis. The authors argue for the existence of a large and unexploited potential in respect to developing academic learning apps for smartphones, especially apps supporting learning processes that do not take place within scheduled university courses, such as the process of writing the Master’s thesis. A review of the pedagogical literature on this process serves as the basis for bestowing special attention to the concepts of customization and motivation in the case of the Master’s thesis app.

"Vi er rigtig meget ens": Peer-dynamik i samarbejdet mellem specialeskrivende par

“…Deres dialoger belyser nemlig ikke kun det emne, som parret taler om, men også, hvordan de taler om de forskellige emner og positionerer sig i forhold til både emnet og hinanden. Endelig ser vi det tidsmaessige sammenfald mellem refleksionerne og vejledningen som en styrke i empirien, da det giver et klart billede af, hvordan de studerende oplever laerings-og skriveprocessen, mens de er midt i den (Pedersen, Albrechtsen & Jensen, 2013). Begraensningen i dette metodiske valg er dog, at vi som forskere ikke får mulighed for at introducere andre stemmer i dialogen og dermed facilitere en kritisk refleksiv stillingtagen, som ikke nødvendigvis optraeder i de studerendes refleksioner.…”

Proposing Co-Design of Personas as a Method to Heighten Validity and Engage Users

“…Our aim was to create an app to help students structure their time while writing a Master's thesis as well as support specific work processes the students might engage in during this period (see Pedersen, Albrechtsen, & Jensen, 2013). The design of the app was to be informed by in-depth knowledge about modern Master's thesis students' day-to-day work processes.…”

Mobile Probes: Exploring the Work Processes and Everyday Life of Danish Students Writing Their Master's Thesis

“…The purpose of the generated data is to inform and inspire the design of a smartphone application (or app) to support future Master's thesis students at the faculty. The need for such an app and the ideas behind it are presented in a forthcoming article [7], and the process of designing the app is currently in progress.…”