[DG: Teaching & Learning] [DG: User Experience] Leading Design

[Amber D. Evans]

Clay,

(I'm reposting this to the larger Sakai community at your request.)

I hope that I and my group are not tragically late to this game, as we've
been working with Stanford on collecting interviews as part of their
Assignments and Test & Quizzes Contextual Inquiry/Fluid research design.  My
3 person team and I will be spending much of today and Tuesday compiling our
user persona notes form those interviews.  I know that many other schools
are also contributing to the Stanford UX project and may have similar
questions or capability to contribute to the larger T&L Sakai 3.0
capabilities.  Once done, my team and I would like to share resulting
composite persona info with your group (and we have already started adding a
little bit to the Google
document<https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AlfbHxo2qpHEdHRuSnowVGMwWE9HY1MtVjFpY1dtS0E&hl=en>).


We just wanted to make sure that we didn't entirely miss the boat on this
one, since the timeline is not entirely clear as to when this kind of user
data will no longer be needed ... as your blog posting
indicates<http://sakaipm.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/leading-design/>,
it's a constant on-going project, but I also recognize that at some point
things have to be settled in order to move forward.  We have noticed that
much of what we could contribute has already been identified in the list,
and only a few more ideas of value may be added (from us).  If you could let
me know how my colleagues and I can best make learning capabilities
contributions (or other things) at this stage, it would be appreciated.
Thanks!

Sincerely,
Amber D. Evans

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On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 7:03 PM, David Goodrum
<davidgoodrum at rocketmail.com>wrote:

> It's been interesting to see the level of collaboration the document has
> seen and how it has evolved because of that collaboration.
>
> According to Google docs, there's been at least 15 collaborators on the
> document... likely more, since no login is required to edit it -- it is a
> totally open brainstorming document right now.
>
> The spreadsheet is certainly not exhaustive nor complete, nor is that the
> intent for this phase. It currently does not necessarily reflect the best
> capabilities of Sakai 2.x; it does not reflect what all is missing or
> frustrating about Sakai 2.x; it does not reflect all of what Sakai 3 should
> aspire to; it doesn't even fully represent what teaching and learning goals
> should be supported in Sakai 3. So what's the point?
>
> With 60+ rows right now, it begins to represent a fair cross section of
> many ambitions Sakai 3 perhaps ought to have in the teaching and learning
> space.
>
> And it attempts to show how different levels of complexity and functional
> capabilities both link together and link back to a basic teaching and
> learning goal, hopefully expressed in everyday language.
>
> Perhaps a bad analogy for the document would be the recent cell coverage
> maps...  Ideally, our teaching and learning map would look like Verizon's 3G
> map... with nearly the whole map filled in.  This brainstorming document
> today is more like the AT&T 3G coverage map: a lot of white space still to
> be filled in, but there is coverage of many core areas and outlines of many
> others.
>
> For now it's a place to play out some ideas.
>
> Got a teaching and learning idea? Something instructors want their students
> to do? Something students wish instructors would do?  Something that develops
> collaboration and cooperation among students, encourages active
> learning, gives prompt feedback, emphasizes time on task, communicates high
> expectations, or respects diverse talents and ways of learning?  Then add it
> to the brainstorm.
>
> - David
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Clay Fenlason <clay.fenlason at et.gatech.edu>
> *To:* Sakai UX <sakai-ux at collab.sakaiproject.org>; pedagogy Learning <
> pedagogy at collab.sakaiproject.org>
> *Sent:* Wed, November 18, 2009 7:28:43 PM
> *Subject:* [DG: User Experience] Leading Design
>
> In recent weeks I've been trying to promote the maturation of the
> learning capabilities spreadsheet [1] that David Goodrum has
> championed. At the same time I've heard concerns that it might come to
> naught or not be listened to. Just a couple days ago Josh Baron was
> asking me when and how I thought the spreadsheet might actually be
> used to inform the design. I told him, "It's happening right now." I'm
> not sure he believed me, so I made a blog post with evidence:
> http://sakaipm.wordpress.com
>
> ~Clay
>
> [1]
> https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AlfbHxo2qpHEdHRuSnowVGMwWE9HY1MtVjFpY1dtS0E&hl=en
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