Aims: To enable students to assess and understand the human contexts and consequences of communication technologies and their development. To enable students to contribute to the design, development and application of communication technologies to improve human- human communication. To enable students to contribute to the design, development and application of new digital technologies to support learning.
Learning Outcomes:
Students will be able to:
* analyse social and cognitive aspects of human-human communication in relation to the context of the tasks that people jointly pursue.
* critically and creatively reason about the design of communication technologies to support human-human communication.
* apply relevant theory to decide on the task-appropriateness of collaborative technologies in general and digital technology to support learning in particular.
Content:
The unit will look at interactive systems and the implication of systems for the design of tasks. It will explore the relationship between communication systems and group contexts, particularly the social origins and factors in communication, and the consequences of such developments for social groups, for sharing knowledge and for learning. It will consider how far it is possible to design effective technologies and practices, for range of contexts for groups, organisations and cultures.
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