Remote Learners, Home Makers: How Digital Fabrication Was

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Gabrielle Benabdallah, Sam Bourgault, Nadya Peek, and Jennifer Jacobs

In this video, we summarize "Remote Learners, Home Makers: How Digital Fabrication Was Taught Online During a Pandemic" Our paper appears in ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) May, 2021. Access it here: https://ecl.mat.ucsb.edu/publication/homemakers

Digital fabrication courses that relied on physical makerspaces were severely disrupted by COVID-19. As universities shut down in Spring 2020, instructors developed new models for digital fabrication at a distance. Through interviews with faculty and students and examination of course materials, we recount the experiences of eight remote digital fabrication courses. We found that learning with hobbyist equipment and online social networks could emulate using industrial equipment in shared workshops. Furthermore, at-home digital fabrication offered unique learning opportunities including more iteration, machine tuning, and maintenance. These opportunities depended on new forms of labor and varied based on student living situations. Our findings have implications for remote and in-person digital fabrication instruction. They indicate how access to tools was important, but not as critical as providing opportunities for iteration; show how remote fabrication exacerbated student inequities; and suggest strategies for evaluating trade-offs in remote fabrication models with respect to learning objectives.

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