Technology-Based Tools for an Online, a Collaborative Learning Experience in Fashion Design

Abstract

This paper analyses the results obtained from an online learning experience, in which fashion professionals and students were invited to explore and use a set of technology-based tools to develop their projects. It was expected that these tools and resources would potentiate and create a contextualized online learning experience in fashion design, helping learners to think and learn with each other, to bring ideas to life while interacting with data and information that were made available to them. A set of tools and resources were researched, identified, and allocated with specific fashion-design tasks. Participants were then asked to resolve these tasks resorting to the tools and resources presented and exploring beyond them, experimenting with potential uses in fashion design projects. The aim was also to understand if learners would acknowledge their potential to create a learning community, through connectivity and shared goals, helping them to develop their projects and stimulating reflective-thinking and self-determined capabilities, needed in the fashion professional environment. The results demonstrated that although learners recognised the potentiality of these tools for their fashion design projects, by convenience or lack of technological skills, they resorted to traditional methods of developing and communicating their projects. The results also demonstrated that like any technology adopted for educational purposes in the past, technologies-based tools, collaborative and mobile technologies require a further discussion about their limitations and potentialities and further experimentation by the fashion design sector.

Employees’ Continued Use Intention of Collaborative System Platforms: Examining Mural and Trello

“…So, we must agree with H4. Mural and Trello have been lauded for their ease of use, but Guedes and Buest (2022) argued that this is irrelevant because only some workers are proficient or competent ICT users. In the first week of class, employees of the companies participating in the study were given a crash course in using the Mural and Trello systems, both of which were recommended by the study's authors, Hemavathi et al (2021).…”

“…Outsourcing is an excellent option for businesses to provide technical support. Such a requirement may arise from daytime call peaks, increased activity due to the introduction of new products or annual maintenance bundles, or the aspiration to provide superior service to customers while keeping operational costs to a minimum (Guedes & Buest, 2022). Companies that require technical support personnel can save time and effort by exporting their services.…”

“…Employees in this SME followed the trainer's instructions and used the system in the company context, which they may or may not encounter again. Therefore, the employees' performance expectation of alternative uses was compiled from their specific intent to use a personal Mural and Trello teamwork platform or strategies to use a Mural and Trello system to aid in their teamwork report and collaborative learning and to stretch their knowledge to other products in the next task or the future (Guedes & Buest, 2022;Rahi et al, 2019;Shchetynina et al, 2022). The average weekly amount of time understudies reported spending in good faith using the Mural and Trello system was used to measure their actual usage.…”