[DG: Teaching & Learning] Research on Discussion Forums

[Daphne Ogle]

In this morning's T&L call, Keli mentioned that at Stanford they have  
some grad students doing research around discussion forum use.  Her  
comment reminded me that when I was at Michigan we convinced some  
School of Information grad students to do the same for a class  
project.  I've attached the student's report in confluence (see link  
below) and am copying pedagogy and UX as I think it might be broadly  
interesting -- particularly with various visioning exercises going on  
in the community.  It is based on Ctools, Michigan's instance of Sakai.

The students describe a design direction they think would be useful,  
particularly to students.  They also describe general needs, user  
models and various other analysis they do along the way.  Much of  
analysis seems like ti could be valuable to anyone thinking about  
discussions in Sakai 3.

CToolsFinalReport.pdf:

http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/pages/viewpageattachments.action?pageId=16613471&sortBy=date&highlight=CToolsFinalReport.pdf&

Note:  An odd place for it to live but without a particular project I  
wasn't sure where to put it.  If anyone has a better idea for  
location, please feel free to move it or let me know.


Enjoy!

Daphne Ogle
Senior Interaction Designer
University of California, Berkeley
Educational Technology Services
daphne at media.berkeley.edu
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