Adobe Education Exchange is a online service provided by Adobe. It focuses on delivering free learning to anyone with an Adobe account. The courses ranging in variety from examples such as Game design all the way through to publishing.
Education Exchange Pros:
- Education Exchange features a good use of online learning as an individual you can sign up for courses specific to what you want to learn. In addition to this is also utilises the online live lecture/workshop format that can be re-watched if either missed or if needed to recover content. The online lecture format also is good because it allows users from all over the world to come together to collaboratively peer review each others work. The final point of why online learning is good in this sense is because it is all online people can do it from the comforts of their own homes or during a lunch break at work.
- The next point is that it uses gamification (using game elements such as scores and achievements in other element of life) to persuade user to motivate them selves to do better and to keep coming back.
- One of the main point of Education Exchange is that is has thought about the user’s Experience (UX) when navigating the service. I found this out when using the website that it was very user friendly and the various tabs were clearly labelled.
Education Exchange Cons:
There were very few downsides to Adobe Education Exchange but one of the major points was that it is very exclusive as to acess the service you need to have an Adobe Creative Cloud Account which can only be accessed by either purchasing or though an University package. This does limit the audience by a considerable amount.
The second key factor that i noticed when using Education Exchange was that when peer reviewing other peoples work you need to download the file to view it and then fill out the review online, obviously as most of the files will consist of a considerable file size this may take awhile if you have to keep repeating this.
How i’m going to use the data to further research and design (inform my own work)
The information i have received from this review will help me in the design stages of my project as features used in the Eduction exchange have informed my ideas on what concepts work and what doesn’t. The use of the online learning is something i definitely want to incorporate into my work as i want to create a service that people can access no matter where they are and learn either live or on catch up if they need to. In addition to this the use of live discussion boards will help my project as i can link this into lectures so if a individual has a question that another student knows the answer for they can help out. Following the collaborative route the use of peer review in work is highly interesting as it promotes teamwork between students and also develops a students skills to critically evaluate other work. Finally i would also like to blend the use of gamification into the project as well as another methods of constructive motivation.
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