Let Voices of Both Teachers and Students on the Development of Educational Technologies Be Heard

The aim of adopting the Participatory Design (PD) approach in the development of educational technologies is to enhance their usefulness and usability. Nonetheless, many of the related PD activities only employ students as end-users to elicit requirements and feedback. Based on the empirical data of two workshops conducted with teachers and students, who were asked to provide feedback on the design of online lab-based lessons, we tend to conclude that involving teachers as well as students in such PD work can lead to a richer and more valuable source of information than students alone.

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