Improving learning plans with peer goal revision

Abstract

This thesis' main purpose is to serve as an exploratory look into what benefits might emerge from socially making learning plans. After reviewing are series of related work, 3 research questions are proposed, asking whether revision of other learners' plans benefits the reviser's plan itself. First, a way of creating plans broken into small actionable steps was designed and tested. Based on this design and to answer the research questions a workflow of create, revise, improve is proposed. Extensive design and several iterations of a prototype made the foundation for evaluating the research questions on real users. More specifically, people who planned to engage in either learning a foreign language or a programming language were. With a small sample size of users, the experience and outcome of this workflow was explored and discussed. These exploratory user studies show good results and indication of the revision task can indeed provide benefits for the revisers themselves.