[DG: Teaching & Learning] [CWux] Learning Activities project outcomes and workshop at Denver 2010

[Keli Sato Amann]

(apologies if you get this twice, resending since first one bounced back)
Hello,
The meeting in Denver was a great chance to see the wonderful work
everyone is doing and I look forward to catching up with the sessions I
was not able to attend.
Along those lines, the session page for "Rethinking Learning Activities:
Taking Action on User Research" now has links to Slideshare, including
the audio track from Wednesday's session.
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/CONF2010/Rethinking+Learning+Activities+-+Taking+Action+on+User+Research

We are still in the process of updating the session page for the
workshop that followed it, which included some lively group work around
evaluation and grading.

We got to see how work was going on some projects we've been aware of,
and made some new connections. Of note:
-BOF for content repositories: Cambridge and Michigan also have been
doing work on "My Content," but from different angles
-Portfolios: I didn't get to see first half, but did get to listen in on
discussions of how scenarios and persona might help
-BOF for Syllabus and Subject Outlines: Charles Sturt, HEC Montreal, U
Virginia, UMich, and our project have either created some solution in
2.x or have done early thinking around what this could look like in 3.0
-Learning Capabilities Lenses: the T&L group presented their themes, or
lenses, and it was interesting to see how our Learning Activites project
and the three areas above could be viewed through those lenses
-Sakai 3.0 planning: I am still digesting the roadmap to see how the
elements of our work intersects with it.

I hope to be part of the research/analysis team for the managed Sakai
3.0 project for at least the next three months (I believe Daphne Ogle
and Lynn Ward will be as well). I do not know what our priorities we
will be (the project manager has yet to be hired), but several
capabilities required to support learning activities are seen throughout
the rough roadmap, so I hope our work will continue to some extent. I
hope we'll get the chance to learn more about the prospective users at
early adopting schools so we know the simpler courses they may be
dealing with, as well explore the complexity that Sakai 3 might be
handling down the road. Although we will likely have to choose
particular domains to focus on, embodying these needs in personas will
help us to acknowledge user differences and balance simplicity and
complexity.

Even though the number of full time employees devoted to this work is
limited, I get the sense from meeting and talking to people next week
that there are dozens more who want to be involved in this work. I am
sure you'll see updates on this in the coming weeks.

Best,
Keli Amann
User Experience Specialist
Academic Computing Services, Stanford University





----- Original Message -----
From: "Keli Sato Amann" <kamann at stanford.edu>
To: "sakai-ux" <sakai-ux at collab.sakaiproject.org>, "sakai-dev"
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Cc: "Daphne Ogle" <daphne at media.berkeley.edu>, "Salwa Khan"
<sk16 at txstate.edu>, "Whitten J Smart" <ws15 at txstate.edu>,
"Kristol J Hancock" <khancock at iupui.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 10:11:47 AM
Subject: Learning Activities project outcomes and workshop at Denver
2010

Hello,
Some of you may have participated in the Learning Activities project
earlier in this year, or who have been curious about what the Sakai 3.0
successor to tools like Tests & Quizzes might be like. We'll present
outcomes from that project, talk about next steps, and give you the
opportunity to learn more and participate during two back-to-back
sessions on Wednesday June 16 at the Denver 2010 Sakai Conference.

During the 60-minute talk we'll describe what we learned from the
research and present early high-level design for how learning activities
could function within Sakai 3.0. The 90-minute workshop will give you a
hands-on experience using the method we used to transform user research
findings into tools that inform design.

We hope you can come to one or both of them--they are designed to
function separately, so please come by. Since there are other sessions
going on at that time, we'll be posting our slide deck and do our best
to get audio or even video up after the conference.

Wednesday June 16
Rethinking Learning Activities: Taking Action on User Research
(12:25-1:25 PM)
How do you design a system that will satisfy a diverse group of users?
Hear about how eight institutions interviewed 30 instructors, staff, and
students about assigned learning activities, consolidated their goals
and motivations into 12 representative "personas," and used those
personas to start making decisions about the 3.0 successors to 2.x
tools. -Keli Amann, User Experience Specialist, Stanford University
-Daphne Ogle, Senior Interaction Designer, UC Berkeley


Rethinking Learning Activities: Practicing Research-Based design
workshop (1:30-3:05 PM)
A hands-on workshop where you will work in small groups to create work
flows using a persona or user archetype that represents a faculty member
or student. You will think as the persona, and determine what your goal
is and how to ideally accomplish it.

-Salwa Khan, Coordinator, IT Projects Coordinator, Texas State
University -Whitten Smart, User Services Consultant II, Texas State
University -Kristol Hancock Senior Interaction Designer, Indiana
University -Daphne Ogle, Senior Interaction Designer, UC Berkeley
-Keli Amann, User Experience Specialist, Stanford University

Hope to see you there!
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