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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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This work was partially funded by the European Union in the context of the Go-Lab project (Grant Agreement no. 317601) under the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) theme of the 7th Framework Programme for R&D (FP7). This document does not represent the opinion of the European Union, and the European Union is not responsible for any use that might be made of its content.
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Law, E.LC., Edlin-White, R., Heintz, M. (2017). Let Voices of Both Teachers and Students on the Development of Educational Technologies Be Heard. In: Lavoué, É., Drachsler, H., Verbert, K., Broisin, J., Pérez-Sanagustín, M. (eds) Data Driven Approaches in Digital Education. EC-TEL 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10474. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66610-5_37
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