Feeling

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Feeling at home with virtual learning
environmentsIssues of domestication

• Laurence Habib
• Centre for Educational Research and Development

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Domesticate a) to make or settle as a member of
a household to cause to be at home to
naturalize. b) to make to be or to feel at
home, to familiarize. Oxford English Dictionary
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Model of domestication of technology
Origins Media and Communication studies Focus
on - consumption - the domestic and personal
spheres
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Overview of the model
Claims counterclaims
Construction/Imagination
Appropriation
Conversion
Commodification
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The study

• Two VLEs at Nordic University College
• Agape 1999 2004
• Satori 2004 ?
• An exploratory study
• January 2003 February 2005
• Interviews, conversations, logs

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Commodification

• Few involved in testing before acquisition
• You can have all the pilot installations in the
  world but if I dont even have time to complete
  my own teaching and RD assignments, how on earth
  am I going to have time to sit down and test?
• Pilot installation is an artificial situation
• Difficult to evaluate vulnerability to overload

VLE
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Appropriation
Objectification
Customization
Mastery
Incorporation
VLE
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Objectification

• Embeddedness in physical environment
• Servers
• Personal computers
• Compatibility
• With other systems
• With mental models/Weltanschauung of the users

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You the teacher are asking us to use a system
thats miles away from what we actually are doing
at the College. This system here is
hierarchical while we are our organisation is
matrix-based. We cant just take our reality and
twist it in order to cram it into your structure
here!
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Customization

• At the institutional level
• At the faculty level
• At the group level
• At the individual level

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Thomas
Andersen
THAN
t.andersen_at_stud.hio.no
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Edvin
Nordmann
EDNO
e.nordmann_at_stud.hio.no
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Ole Jakob
Solheim
OJSO
o.j.solheim_at_stud.hio.no
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Ronny
Hansen
ROHA
r.hansen_at_stud.hio.no
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Kenneth
Larsen
KELA
k.larsen_at_stud.hio.no
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Mastery

• Formal training and user support
• Issues of visibility
• For the support seeker
• For the support provider

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Incorporation

• Agape system
• Diffuse responsibility
• Artificial categorization administrative,
  technical pedagogical duties
• Birth of a new hybrid the learning
  technologist
• No officially acknowledged professional status
• Tend to fall in an organisational vacuum

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Conversion

• Power of rumours
• Status conferred to the technology and its users
• State-of-the-art technology innovators, forward
  thinkers
• Second-rate technology losers

VLE
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The way forward

• More focused studies
• Comparative studies
• Teamwork
• Rich descriptions

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