Using brainstorming patterns in a virtual collaborative training environment to develop the skills of producing advanced digital content for educational design specialists and their attitudes towards them

Zakay Zaki &#039;iiskandar, Rami

doi:10.21608/edusohag.2019.56885

Using brainstorming patterns in a virtual collaborative training environment to develop the skills of producing advanced digital content for educational design specialists and their attitudes towards them

Document Type : Original Article

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rami zakay zaki 'iiskandar

Instructional Technology Instructor Faculty of Specific Education - Mansoura University Director of the National Center for E-Learning Supreme Council of Universities

10.21608/edusohag.2019.56885

Abstract

Nowadays, Brainstorming is considered one of the most important educational strategies on which educational technology depends for the development of developed thinking for all learners or trainees, It also has many techniques that if properly are utilized and employed in the educational process and training courses, that will bring multiple benefits to all participants in its sessions, This will benefit students, graduates and the labor market. In spite of the many studies in the field of educational technology that focused on brainstorming, few of them went to study the techniques of brainstorming and determine which of them has a positive impact on the beneficiaries.
The present research sought to test some technique of the brainstorming in a virtual collaborative training environment to develop skills for the production of developed digital content; and the extent to which the instructional design specialist direct himself towards the brainstorming techniques. The research sample included (21) educational designers from the e-course production centers of in Egyptian universities. The research sample has been divided into three experimental groups for three of the techniques brainstorming technique (conventional / reverse / step ladder), a developed digital content production skills scale was designed to measure the ability of the research sample of those skills, as well as a trend scale to measure the direction of the research sample towards the brainstorming technique used in a virtual collaborative training environment.
The research followed a set of procedures that ensure a good instructional design for a virtual collaborative training environment presented by brainstorming techniques, and the results showed the impact of brainstorming techniques on the search variables in general; and the reverse brainstorming technique on the research variables in particular, There were statistically significant differences between the three experimental groups in the pre / post measurement of developed digital content production scale Which confirms that instructional design specialists have increased their skills in producing developed digital content, However, the results of the current research confirmed that the experimental group (B), which was trained in the reverse brainstorming technique, had higher scores in all search variables than the other two experimental groups (a) and (c), These results confirm the impact of the reverse brainstorming technique on the development of skills in general and the skills of producing developed digital content in particular, While the results of the three experimental groups on the trend scale towards the brainstorming technique are consistent with those of the skills scale of the designed digital content production, There was a significant preference (direction) towards the reverse brainstorming technique more than the rest of the techniques, which shows how the reverse brainstorming technique affects the instructional design specialists, The research recommended the importance of brainstorming techniques, especially the reverse brainstorming technique because of its strong impact on the development of skills, the generation of developed ideas and the transfer of experiences among participants in the sessions with the need for further research.

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