INFLUENCE OF PARTICIPATORY MONITORING AND EVALUATION APPROACHES ON THE PRACTICE OF QUALITY ASSURANCE IN KENYA SECONDARY SCHOOLS ONDIEKI, MORARA GEORGE and MATONDA, NYABIAGE EMMAH Graduate students University of Nairobi P.O. Box 902 Kisii40200 Abstract This study sought to establish whether quality assurance as currently practiced in learning institutions in Kenya is a form of participatory moni...

Participatory action research with self-help/mutual aid organizations for psychiatric consumer/survivors is reviewed. We begin by tracing the origins of and defining both participatory action research and self-help/mutual aid. In so doing, the degree of correspondence between the assumptions/values of participatory action research and those of self-help/mutual aid for psychiatric consumer/survi...

This short paper describes our developing theorizing around the nature of learning analytics, and specifically ‘learning analytics for learners’. We describe a value sensitive, participatory, design process for the development of a learning platform and learning analytics. Preliminary design sessions with students illustrate the approach we have taken to developing analytics in one masters leve...

The doctoral thesis deals with design for collaborative learning and creation of participatory media through visual narrative construction. I base my thinking on CSCL (Computer Supported Collaborative Learning), social constructivism, communication studies in relation to audience participation and identity construction, narrative psychology and visual communication. My study attempts to encoura...

This position paper portrays my approach towards learning tools based on embodied interaction for underprivileged children in Chennai, India. It outlines my ongoing Master Thesis in New Media Art and Design. Participatory design research revealed challenges of a community. This paper argues how these challenges can be turned into opportunities with the help of participatory design.

Educational technology research studies have found computer and software technologies to be underutilized in U.S. classrooms. In general, many teachers have had difficulty integrating computer and software technologies into learning activities and classroom curriculums because specific technologies are ill-suited to their needs, or they lack the ability to make effective use of these technologi...

Through iterative participatory design-based research I aim to explore the application of the Ecology of Resources (EoR) Framework (Luckin, 2008) to the design of technology enhanced contexts that scaffold learning and collaboration. Technology enhanced learning (TEL) contexts engage learners and the ecology of resources available to them as they move through time and space, in coordinated and ...

This paper presents longitudinal evaluation results for an online participatory examination process in an information systems course over three semesters. The exam process includes students making up questions, answering other students’ questions, grading answers to questions they author, and appealing the grades. The surveys following each exam elicited students’ feedback, and an experiment co...

In this essay we defend a form of democracy that we will call "directlydeliberative polyarchy." We argue that it is an attractive kind of radical, participatory democracy with problem-solving capacities useful under current conditions and unavailable to representative systems. In directly deliberative polyarchy, collective decisions are made through public deliberation in arenas open to citizen...