Stanford University
Professor of Education and Learning Sciences
roy.pea@stanford.edu
Stanford University
Professor of Education and Learning Sciences
roy.pea@stanford.edu
As it become possible to represent and link rich media representations on high-end university workstations, I became fascinated with the potentials of new hypermedia learning environments for K-12. While at NYU and afterwards at IRL, I developed a line of work that designed and developed a multimedia research and "composing" or authoring environment for middle school children.
The MediaWorks project was supported by Apple Computer's ACOT (Apple Classroom of Tomorrow) Project and the Advanced Technology Group, and was conducted as a participatory design after-school club for collaborative learning projects among East Palo Alto students from Ravenswood School at IRL. (I'd particularly like to thank Ed Boyle for his programming and design work, and Michael Chertok and Shelley Goldman for supporting the development of the activities and research.)
This work was challenging technically, and at the advent of Hypercard and Supercard authoring, in incorporating digital media and analog videodisc resources, with a direct manipulation interface.
Our work and design methodology was influential in the Picasso Project with Philips NV that examined multimedia communications tools and authoring over the Internet.
Publications included:
Mills, M. I., & Pea, R. D. (1989). Mind and media in dialog: Issues in multimedia composition. In K. Hooper & S. Ambron (Eds.), Full-Spectrum Learning. Cupertino, CA: Apple Computer, Inc.
Pea, R.D., Boyle, E., and de Vogel, R. (1990). Design spaces for multimedia composing tools. In B. Bowen (Ed.), Designing for Learning. Cupertino, CA: Apple Computer Press.
Pea, R.D. (1991, July). Learning through multimedia. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 11(4), 58-66 (Translated in Italian and republished in Golem Newsletter, March, 1992, 4(3), 6-13.)
This MediaWorks effort in creating constructivist activities and tools for student projects using multimedia research and document composition environments led me to the work with Louis Gomez at Bellcore, and our collective vision and review paper on Distributed Multimedia Learning Environments:
Pea, R. D., & Gomez, L. (1992a). Distributed multimedia learning environments: Why and how? Interactive Learning Environments, 2(2), 73-109.:
MediaWorks (1987-1991)