Abstract
One of the general challenges in today’s teaching and learning environment is identifying ways to create meaningful and engaging learning experiences that go beyond a traditional lecture. The discovery-learning paradigm has a potential to address this challenge by encouraging students to be active participants in their learning process. In this paper, we report on our exploratory study of the use of digital storytelling to support discovery learning in an introductory information system (IS) course. Digital storytelling, in contrast to traditional learning, encourages students to use computer-aided mixed media such as audio, video and images to construct and convey knowledge around a topic in the form of a story. The aim of the digital storytelling project was to encourage students to take ownership in their learning process by giving them the opportunity to design, create, and present their own class materials. We discuss our initial findings on whether and how digital storytelling promotes learning of complex and abstract IS concepts. The results suggest that a careful pedagogical design around story planning, digital story production and reflection are important to achieve positive learning experience of students.
Recommended Citation
Bromberg, Nathan R.; Techatassanasoontorn, Angsana A.; and Andrade, Antonio Diaz, "Using Digital Storytelling In Information Systems Learning" (2012). PACIS 2012 Proceedings. 151.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2012/151