What makes this paper (9 page PDF) interesting is that it's based on "recorded video sequences of informal learning processes in the context of media usage, called 'learning episodes'." The learning episodes were saved as screen-capture videos by the students themselves - "77 learners captured, annotated, and edited 373 learning episodes." Some additional episodes were captured by researchers. The objective was to capture digital media's 'alteration method', that is, "digital media's influencing mechanism on learning in daily life." The outcomes are described as "create and delete" ("means of production of digital media are omnipresent."), "arrange and link", and "transmit and access". The outcomes show learners how important it is to associate resources from different sources, and to exerrcise a high degree of self-autonomy, while teachers should see the importance of merging the informal and formal learning contexts. The paper could have used an edit, but the content is good stuff.
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