EduTechnorama

I’ve been reading Bob Cringely’s column ever since I discovered he was the person behind one of my favorite PBS documentaries, "Triumph of the Nerds" which is a history of personal computing. Last week he posted an article about how the later generations of our students who are beginning to perceive that there was no life prior to computers, perhaps much in the same way my generation perceives television. What will our children’s children be experiencing in their learning opportunities? 

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One of the things I’ve been really interested in is finding a way to increase interactivity in online educational experiences I’ve been developing. Many people with the same interest as far as the web is concerned call this concept engagement. It addresses issues such as “How do I make an online experience more interactive such that it induces genuine interest and a desire to continue in that experience, while at the same time increase or serve some other ulterior goal?” For business people, it means encouraging users return to an online store to purchase more goods. For entertainment people, it means enticing consumers to watch an online episode of production (video or animation). For educators, this means that we want to engage our students so that they will on their own desire to continue in a learning activity while accomplishing the goal of learning.

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