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    Balancing the MediaDiana Laurillard aa Institute of Educational Technology, Open University, UK

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    Journal of Educa tional Television, Vol. 19, No. 2, 1993 81

    Balancing the MediaDIANA LAURILLARDProgramme on Learner Use of Media, Institute of Educational Technology, Open

    University, UK

    A B S T R A C T This paper outlines a conversationa l framew ork for describing the essentialelements of the learning process. The framew ork is used to elaborate the kinds of learningactivities students need to carry out in order to arrive at a con ceptual unde rstanding of thetopic they are studying. The framew ork is then applied to contrasting learning media: print,video, comp uter-based tutorial and teache r-student discussion, to determine which learningactivities each is capab le of supporting. These com binations of multiple media are thencom pared with the new multi-media systems for their likely pedago gical benefits.

    IntroductionTh e task of planning and designing educational m aterials is becom ing very com plexas the types of media available not only increase in number but also intermarry toproduce exotic off-spring, such as multi-media work-stations, interactive satelliteteaching, audio-graphics and others. Evolutionary metaphors are inappropriate,however. The evolution of technology is not at all adaptive to the educationalenvironment. Education is attempting to adapt itself radically to the promise of thenew technologies, but the new technologies were created for other purposes than tosave education. Because of this, the educational design process must not be sweptalong by the promises of the new technologies, but must use them in a controlledand selective way. This paper considers ways in which the technology would adaptto the educational environment, rather than vice-versa. Beginning with a frameworkof pedagogical requirem ents of the technologies, we can then com pare them and usethem according to how well they fit.

    The learning process as a conversational framework

    The development of the framework begins with the assumption that academicknowledge consists in descriptions of the world, and therefore comes to be knownthrough a discursive interaction between teacher and student. It cannot be knownthrough experience alone, only through reflection on experience. Because of thissecond-order nature, academic knowledge certainly requires the first-order knowl-edge as well, of direct experience of the world, and much of the pedagogic task of

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    I f f l Reflective

    F I G . 1. Th e complete learning process: essential component relationships.

    earth, whether it was going round the sun or the sun was Discursivegoing round it.

    T: Exactly.At the discursive level, teacher and student exchange views, and their reasons forth em , and tha t, may be sufficient. Bu t if a discrepancy arises, as in the stu de nt'ssupposition that you can tell by looking , the teacher adapts the discussion, to leadit towards discussion of a common experience that will allow consensus betweenthe m . Th e interactive phase does no t require, in this case, direct interaction with theworld by setting up the experiment with the roundabouttheir past experience issufficient to allow agreement about the interpretation of that event. The student'sreflection on that event then allows her to express her description of it as a newconception of an aspect of the issue under discussion.

    Every stage in the framework is necessary. If the student does not express herconception in the first place, the teacher will remain ignorant of it and the rest of

    their conceptual argument will be building on sand. If they do not adapt thedirection of the discussion to extending the student's experience, the same follows.If the student does not perform the thought experiment with the roun dabo ut toextend her, albeit imagined, experience, then she will not see why the teacher doesno t accept the argum ent th at the two situations are different. If the stud ent d oes notreflect on the thought experiment, her awareness of it will remain bounded in theparticular context of the roun dab ou t, rather th an being generalised for application toat least one other situation. If they do not express their redescription of the idea, theteacher cann ot know if they have achieved the agreemen t at the discursive level that

    will allow the conceptual argument to proceed. Figure 1 shows a diagrammaticversion of the framework, clarifying the two levels of experience (being interactivewith the teacher's world) and description (being discursive between the two partic-ipants), and the primary responsibilities of the teacher to be adaptive, and thestudent to be reflective.

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    Adaptionof task goa lgivenconception

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    |T s conception

    Medium Student

    S s conception

    Reflection onwhat studentaction revealsto generate newdescription ofconception

    Modified action

    Reflection o ngoal, action,feedback togenerate newdescription ofconception

    Adaptation ofaction in the light

    of reflection andT s concep tion

    F IG . 2. Th e complete learning process: essential activities.

    T h e stages characterised in F ig. 1 as a 'conversational framework' emb ody aseries of distinct activities on the part of the two interlocutors, and these areunpacke d in F ig. 2. F or example, the 'discursive' level in the example containsseveral different types of contribution: description by teacher of their conception,similar for student, request by teacher for elaboration of student's conception,adaptation of topic focus by teacher, and later at the end a redescription by thestudent, followed by confirmation of agreement on the new topic. The discursiveand interactive levels require more than one exchange to do their job, therefore.Similarly, in the course of a continuing dialogue between teacher and student, theteacher will be using her observations on the way the student interacts with theworld to inform the way she explains and redescribes her own conception to thestudent at the discursive level. And the student will benefit from adapting theiractions in the world given the discussion. Hence the addition of complementaryprocesses of adap tation an d reflection w ithin each partic ipan t's activities. F igure 2elaborates these exchanges further.

    T h e con versational framewo rk for describing the learning process in F ig. 2should be applicable to any academic learning situation. It is not applicable tolearning through experience, nor to 'everyday' learning, nor to those trainingprogrammes that focus on skills alone, all of which occur at the experientialinteractive level only. Cognitive psychologists will argue that experiential learninghas adaptive and reflective components as well, which is probably a good model, butthe 'conversational framework' identifies those as conscious accessible processes.This is important, because it makes it possible for both teacher and student tochange the way they do them. The reflection we do as children on the internal

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    structure of the language we are experiencing, for example, is not always availableto conscious control. But as students of a subject, we can consciously stand backfrom our experience and consider the similarity between, for example the round-

    about and the earth, and then, having consciously reflected upon it, argue about it.A critical perspective, necessary for academic understanding, is not feasible at thenon -con scious ex periential level. T he two levels are also observably differenttheone being talk about the world, the other being action on the world. In the contextof education, the distinction is an important one.

    The characterisation of the teaching-learning process as a conversation is hardlya new idea. G ord on Pa sk formalised it as 'conversation the ory' som e time ago (Pask,1976), including the separation of 'descriptions' and 'model-building behaviours',and the definition of und erstan ding as dete rm ined by a two level of agre em ent

    (ibid., p.22). Vygotsky described learning in terms of social interaction (Vygotsky,1962). Many educational ideas have their counterparts in the culture of AncientG reece, as does this one in the So cratic dialogues, which are still referred to asepitomising the tutorial process. The conversational framework is set out as aboveto clarify the second-o rder character of academ ic learning, and to define its essentialcomponents.

    Comparing the mediaThe conversational framework is a convenient description of the learning process,which encapsulates the essential aspects of learning academic knowledge, andprovides us with some criteria against which to judge the educational media. And weimmediately encounter the inescapable and inconvenient fact that they do not fit theframework very well. The essence of the academic teaching process is a conversa-tion, but almost all the educational media are incapable of handling a conversationwith a student. It is very apparent that the technology has not evolved to fit theeducational environment.

    If the individual media do not easily support all the aspects of the learningprocess, then we need a representation of what each one can contribute, and therebyof what kind of supplementary teaching-learning interaction it presupposes. Con-sider the canonical forms of the principal educational media: print, including textpictures and graphics; video, including audio and animation; computer-based tuto-rial, including tutorial dialogue and simulation model; and the teacher-studentdiscussion, for com parison. F or each of these we can identify h ow well they suppo rtthe learning process, using the framework as guide.

    Print

    The teacher can offer a description in language and pictures. T he stude nt can only express her conception as written annotation s, or responses

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    to in-text activities set, but there is no reaction to them by the teacher (fordiscussion see Lockwood, 1989).

    T he teacher can offer 'pre-emp tive redesc ription', assuming the studen t may havesome particular misconception, which can be addressed directly in the text.

    T he teacher can not a dapt the activities set to the stude nt's nee ds, as there is noopportunity for the student to communicate her conception.

    The student cannot adapt her actions as there is no direct interaction with theworld.

    The teacher may refer to the student's experience as a way of handling theinteractive stage.

    T he re is no interaction with the world for the stud ent to reflect upo n, though shemay reflect upon the experience referred to by the teacher, as well as on theteacher's description.

    Video

    T he tea cher can offer a description in language, graphics , and dyn amic pictu res. The student can only express her conception as responses to activities set, but

    there is no reaction to them by the teacher (for discussion see Durbridge, 1984). T he teacher can offer 'pre-emp tive redescription', assum ing the stude nt may have

    some particular misconception, which can be addressed directly in the videopresentation.

    The teacher cannot adapt the activities set to the student's needs as there is noopportunity for the student to communicate her conception.

    The student cannot adapt her actions as there is no direct interaction with theworld.

    T he teacher can extend or enha nce the stud en t's vicarious experience of the worldby showing an interaction with it. The actions are not the student's own, but shecan observe the feedback on someone else's actions.

    T h e studen t may reflect upo n this vicarious experience of the world, as well as onthe teacher's description.

    Computer based tutorial

    The teacher can offer a description in language, graphics and dynamic graphics,though the use of language must be limited, given the difficulty of reading textfrom a screen.

    The student can only express her conception in a highly constrained form inresponse to activities set. This often means 'multiple-choice questions' (mcq),which can interfere with learning. A better form is the concealed mcq, which useskeywords to interpret student input.

    If the com pute r can be prog ram m ed to interpret student inpu t reliably, then it can

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    be programmed to react to the particular category of response they make, and onthat basis can offer a redescription designed to cope with that response. Theredescription is still pre-emptive , however, as the form of reply is decided inadvance by the programmer.

    The program can adapt the activities set for the student both on the basis of herpast performance on set activities, and on the basis of the categorised input above.

    The student can adapt her actions in the world of the simulated model, on thebasis of the feedback they received on previous actions, and in the light of theprogram s descriptions

    The teacher can extend or enhance the student s direct experience of a simulatedworld by offering interaction with a computer model of it. The actions arecontrolled by the student, and she receives feedback on those actions in the formof changes to the output of the model, either numerical, graphical or pictorial.

    The student may reflect upon this simulated experience of the world, as well as onthe program s description, and moreover the program can support this reflectionas it can keep a record of both the student s actions, and the descriptions offered.

    Teacher-student discussion

    Both teacher and student can express their conception as a description, and canoffer a redescription in the light of their reaction to the other s description. It isfully discursive.

    The teacher can adapt the activity set for the student only in the sense of referringto a particular illustrative experience.

    As there is no action directly on the world, the student cannot make adaptivechanges to actions.

    There is no interaction with the world for the student to reflect upon, though shemay reflect upon the experience referred to by the teacher, as well as on theteacher s description, and moreover the teacher can support this reflection ashe/she knows the experience referred to and the descriptions offered.

    From this comparison it should be apparent that the media are complementary toeach other, that none supports the whole learning process, but that thecomputer-based tutorial-simulation program comes closest. The comparison issummarised in Table 1 (overleaf).

    It should also be clear that there are a number of design devices for each mediumthat are used by designers to enable it to approximate to better coverage of thelearning process, for example, the use of pre-emptive redescriptions in presentationof a concept, the use of in-text activities for print, or interactive video-cassetteactivities for video, the use of a simulated model to allow interaction with a worldin computer-based tutorials, the use of reference to experience in discussion. Allthese devices help the student, but still leave some of the essential component

    activities unsupported. Students can supply these for themselves, especially if theyare experienced or sophisticated learners. But they need support at least some of thetime. If it is correct that the teaching-learning process is essentially a conversation,then especially at the advanced level of university study, students will need frequentsupport at the discursive level, and this is precisely the activity that is least

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    learning. As the media and delivery systems proliferate, new combinations arecontinually explored:

    (1) audio-visionaudio-cassette talking through text-based materials;

    (2) interactive video-cassettevideo-cassette material plus related activities setfor students to do;(3) interactive audiocomputer program with random access to CD-ROM-

    based audio material;(4) interactive videocomputer program with random access to video-disc-

    based material;(5) hypermediahypertext program giving indexed access to structured text,

    audio and video material;(6) audio-graphicstelephone tutoring on one telephone line plus computer-

    based data link on another giving tutor and student interactive access to thesame computer screen;(7) computer conferencingmodem or cable data link between computers

    installed with conferencing software giving tutor and students access to thesame text messages; and

    (8) interactive satellite tv television bro adc ast using audio-con ferencingbetween studio-based tutor and home-based students.

    All these have the ir place in the provision of distance learn ing, for either pedagogicalor logistical reason s or bo th. F rom the con versational framework developed earlierwe could deduce that the ideal media combination would be a 'computer-mediated-audio-graphic-tutorial-hypermedia-simulation-conference', which offersexperiential learning with 'pre-emptively adapted discussion' of it through thecomputer based tutorial-simulation, plus access to a database library via thehypermedia, plus synchronous discussion of some experiential interaction via theaudio-graphics, plus asynchronous discussion through the computer conference.Such a workstation does not exist. Similar prototypes are being explored from withineducation, but unless industry and commerce develop a need for such a technologyit is unlikely to develop very far.

    As hypermedia systems become more widespread, offering computer-basedaccess to large volumes of text, audio and video material, stored on hard disc orCD-ROM, there is an increasing expectation that this will act as the multi-mediaworkstation that supplies all a student could need. It is important to critically assessthe wisdom of this expectation. It is debatable whether students would acceptscreen-based text instead of print-based text to work fromscreens are not equal tothe 'desk-top' metaphor they aspire to, either in quality or in size, and thatdegradation will have pedagogical consequences we can only guess at, because theissue has not attracted much research. Also, the logistics of using computer-based

    materials are considerably more complex than those for using print. These twoissues alone are enough to question to value of the single-workstation approach todelivering study materials. The third issue, and the focus of this paper, is thepedagogical value of hypermedia, one form of the new 'multi-media workstation'.

    Two important features of personal computer systems come together in

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    hypermediatheir now large information storage capacity, and the new softwareformats referred to as hypertext. Both CD-ROM and hard disc systems offer suchlarge storage capacity that it is possible to store whole books, to digitise audio andstore, for example, long passages of speech, and to digitise video which, being moreinformation-hungry than audio, can be stored as short chunks of, for example, keydynamic sequences. So the multi-media workstation can offer access to a smalllibrary of information using several media.

    The type of access it offers determines the aspects of the learning it supports. Ifit is simply an indexed database of information, then it works in exactly the sameway as a library of print materials, offering a description of the teacher's viewpointon the subject, but is neither adaptive to student needs (except pre-emptively),nor interactive nor reflective. The addition of a hypertext system changes thenatu re of the access. Th e database m ay be indexed, bu t also makes extensive use ofcross-reference between items, or chunks within the structure, and also allowsusers to make their own cross-references and to add annotations as they wish.The latter feature gives rise to some interesting claims for hypertext/hypermediasystems:

    hypertext enables learners to construct, organize and convey personalknowledge ... learners help to construct the knowledge base [which] istherefore ad apted by the learner to make it more meaningful (Jonassen1991)

    the s tud ent engages in a new way with the play and its context (Renaissancepromotional video)

    Bu t cross-referencing and ann otating are activities that have always been available tothe student studying from text. Does hypermedia really offer anything more than avery small library, a piece of paper and a pencil? Th ese educational p rovisions, whilebeing recognised as important throughout the history of education, are seldomdignified with the rhetoric of constructivist theories of learning, for the very goodreason that while they allow learners to con struc t, organize and convey person alknow ledge , they certainly do n ot ensure that this hap pen s. Th at is why thetraditional methods of library, paper and pencil have been supplemented withcomplementary teaching activities, such as assignments with feedback in the form ofmarks or assessment grades, and tutorials, all of which require the studen t toconstruct organise and convey their personal knowledge. A hypertext system offersno such motivation, nor does it offer any pedagogical support for students trying tomake the intellectual leap that links one idea to another, nor can it monitor thevalidity of the link they make.

    The freedom to browse the intellectual hyperspace afforded by these systemssounds delightful to the subject expert, who already possesses a detailed conceptualmap of the subject, but to the novice struggling to understand what kind of space itis , and what counts as a link between ideas, it could be a nightmare of confusion.When offered an indexed sequential discourse in a new subject, students typicallytake the default option provided by the author, and fail to rearrange that order,

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    whether it be print or computer-based material (Laurillard, 1984). In so far as asmall library plus pencil and paper might be sufficient educational support for astude nt, as it often can be, an d assum ing that the particular selection m ade to stockits very small library is well-targeted for the task in hand, and assuming that the userhas access to the necessary technology, then hyperm edia is a convenient o ption. B utthe support it offers the learner is confined to controlled access to a description ofthe teacher's conception.

    S u m m a r y

    Using multiple media for the delivery of media-based course materials allows us totarget each medium on the aspect of the learning process it best supports. They areall an improvement on lectures, at least. Each one has its strengths, as thecomparative analysis showed, and none can adequately support every learningactivity the stud ent need s to undertak e to be sure of attaining a good und erstand ing.Students contribute a great deal themselves to the learning process, making theirown links between theoretical description and experiential examples, reflecting onthe underlying structure of the teacher's discourse, practising the representation oftheir description of the world in the relevant academic languageall of whichactivities have been identified as occurring when students use what has been calledthe 'deep approach' to learning (see, for example, Marton, et al., 1984; Ramsden,1988). But because students do not always manage to do this for themselves, theyneed support, and not just in the aspect of the learning process that one particularmedium happens to address, but in all the component activities all the time. Thatis why each medium has to be used in the context of its integration with any of theothers that can complement the support it provides. As Bates has pointed out, in astudy of broadca st teaching programm es: Different media can present the sameknowledge in different ways, and media differ in their facility to develop studentskills in acquiring or using kno wled ge . (B ates, 19 84, p. 165 , original italics). Th estudent is rarely fully supported. That happens over time, as tutorials ortutor-marked assignments supply the discursive aspect that was missing from thepresentational/interactive m edium they were studying. F rom a pedagogic point ofview, balancing the media means making the integration of the media assynchron ised and as com plete as possible. F ro m a logistical poin t of view theanalysis may be different. The pedagogic balance is meaningless if student access tothe medium has not been considered. If it is a distance learning university, then wecannot hope for very much face-to-face interaction; if the numbers on a course arevery large, then broadcast television is a much more efficient way of reaching allstudents than sending out video cassettes; if students are visually-impaired, then a

    computer-based speech synthesiser is their only means of instant access to a text,where print fails completely, and a spoken version on audio-cassette offers too littlecontrol. This paper has focused on the pedagogical decisions to be made aboutbalan cing the m edia, bu t the logistical issues are equally imp ortant (see, for exam ple,Laurillard, 1992).

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    One basic principle for balancing the media, then is to target them on aspects ofthe learning process they support best. The same point applies to multi-mediasystems. They can be an excellent solution for certain pedagogical requirements andlogistical conditions: when students need access to a small library, and have a goodenough grounding in the subject that they know what they need to know, and therelevant material has been selected for the hypertext format, and when they haveconvenient access to a multi-media workstation. It does not offer very much supportto the student, however. The student's problem is not typically the difficulty ofcross-referencing and annotating text. It is more likely to be the conceptual one ofmaking sense of the teacher's point of view, or coping with their unfamiliarterminology, or reinterpreting their experience, none of which are served any betterby a multi-med ia system tha n by any of the existing med ia an d m edia com binations.The proper role of multi-media is to play its own part as one of the multiple mediaintegrated into a coherent course, capable of supporting students in all aspects of thelearning process.

    It is important that in adopting the new technologies we attempt to understandprecisely what kind of role the various media play in supporting student learning. Ifwe are clear about the pedagogical requirements they must meet, then it will beeasier to adapt them to the educational environment, and thereby maximise theireducational potential. If we are not sufficiently clear about what the new educationaltechnologies must do, then education will evolve to fit what they offer. Andtechnology is a powerful force, being driven by the twin engines of commerce andpolitics. This paper has offered an analytical framework to assist in rationalising theselection and use of the educational technologies on offer. At present, control of theeducational technologies remains with the academics. While we still have it, we needto mould these technologies to our academic requirements, and make them work toserve academic ideals. Building a framework for making pedagogically-baseddecisions about the use of educational technologies is a programme that mustcontinue to develop.

    Correspondence: Diana Laurillard, Institute of Educational Technology, OpenUniversity, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK.

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