{"id":342,"date":"2018-07-01T23:27:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T06:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0003\/?p=342"},"modified":"2018-07-01T23:27:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T06:27:43","slug":"lrnt-527-unit-1-activity-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0003\/lrnt-527-unit-1-activity-3\/","title":{"rendered":"LRNT 527 &#8211; Unit 1 &#8211; Activity 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instructional designers for online learning can adopt a number of strategies for empathizing with users.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dschool-old.stanford.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/METHODCARDS-v3-slim.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bootcamp Bootleg<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.designkit.org\/methods\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Design Kit<\/a>\u00a0both offer several techniques for gaining better understanding of users. After reviewing these, I was drawn to exploring the experience of\u00a0<em>extreme users.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are a number of learners in the context of my work environment who are required to take online safety training but who are lacking the skills and\/or tools to accomplish that easily. The most extreme examples include those who, for one reason or another, simply cannot manage the technological process and must train in-person instead.<\/p>\n<p>The resources I will need for investigating such extreme users in my work context will be the toolkits mentioned above, along with internal administrative information so I can contact the extreme users for an interview.<\/p>\n<p>Challenges I may face in my mission to shed light on these outliers include finding the extreme users, and finding extreme users who are willing and\/or available to share their thoughts and experiences with me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>IDEO. (2015).\u00a0<em><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.designkit.org\/methods\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Design Kit \u2013 Methods<\/a><\/em>. Retrieved from http:\/\/www.designkit.org\/methods<\/p>\n<p>Stanford University Institute of Design. (2016).\u00a0<em><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/dschool-old.stanford.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/METHODCARDS-v3-slim.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bootcamp Bootleg<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 Retrieved from http:\/\/dschool-old.stanford.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/METHODCARDS-v3-slim.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instructional designers for online learning can adopt a number of strategies for empathizing with users.\u00a0Bootcamp Bootleg\u00a0and the\u00a0Design Kit\u00a0both offer several techniques for gaining better understanding of users. After reviewing these, I was drawn to exploring the experience of\u00a0extreme users.\u00a0 There are a number of learners in the context of my work environment who are required &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0003\/lrnt-527-unit-1-activity-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LRNT 527 &#8211; Unit 1 &#8211; Activity 3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[23,24],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt527","tag-lrnt-527","tag-malat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}