Features of a Good Story for Non-Technical Adults to Learn Emerging Technologies

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v15i03.11645

Keywords:

Technical Education, Adult Learners, Story, Teaching Method, Artificial Intelligence, Conversational Programmers

Abstract


The need to learn emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence is increasingly important not only for technical people but also for non-technical people. Previous studies showed the effectiveness of a story-based teaching method for both technical and non-technical people who want to learn emerging technologies. However, the difference between the story-building methods for technical people and non-technical people is not revealed. The purpose of this research is to pro-pose perspectives that reveal the differences in the stories used for emerging technology education and identify the effective story features suited for non-technical adult learners by comparing the different story-building methods used for technical people and non-technical people. In this study, we classified the story types into two perspectives: "past to present" and "present to future" and compared the two story-building methods in these perspectives. The novelty of this research is that the proposal of perspectives that reveal the differences in the stories used for emerging technology education and that we have identified the features of one of the effective stories suited for non-technical adult learners. We al-so examined the possibility of leveraging such differences in solving the issues that a class of non-technical people called conversational programmers is facing.

Author Biographies

Keisuke Seya, Keio University

Adjunct Professor at Shizenkan University and a lecturer at Keio University and belongs to a Ph.D. program at the Department of Graduate School of System Design and Management of Keio University in Kanagawa, Japan.

Nobuyuki Kobayashi, Keio University

Ph.D. in System Engineering from Keio University and belongs to the System Design and Management Research Institute of Graduate School of System Design and Management at Keio University in Kanagawa, Japan.

Seiko Shirasaka, Keio University

Professor at the Department of Graduate School of System Design and Management of Keio University in Kanagawa, Japan.

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Published

2020-02-18

How to Cite

Seya, K., Kobayashi, N., & Shirasaka, S. (2020). Features of a Good Story for Non-Technical Adults to Learn Emerging Technologies. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 15(03), pp. 15–33. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v15i03.11645

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 03 (2020)

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Papers

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