[DG: Teaching & Learning] rethinking/simplifying learning activities

[Oliver Heyer]

To meet some initial objectives for the UC Berkeley OAE pilot that 
weren't on the critical path for the central project at the time, we 
implemented capabilities that allow college advisers to send 
notifications to students about things that they need to attend to, 
usually an important administrative task or event. We've built 2 widgets 
for managing lists of tasks and events, respectively. You can sort, 
filter, check off, and archive the list items. The tasks and events are 
also delivered as iCal via email.

Generalizing, expanding on, and/or integrating these capabilities into 
OOTB OAE has been an obvious longer term goal from the beginning. This 
process is unlikely to follow the relatively straightforward Sakai CLE 
tool/code contribution model.

Oliver

On 9/7/11 12:57 PM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> Hi Janice,
>
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:29 PM, janice.smith
> <janice.smith at threecanoes.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Hello Bruce
>>
>> In reference to your discussion on simplifying teaching and learning
>> activities, I suggest that you take a look at the work done by Jacques
>> Raynauld and his team at Montreal MATI on Open Syllabus. His presentation at
>> the Sakai 2011 Conference can be found at
>> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/CONF2011/2011-06-14+Open+Syllabus+-+Building+a+coherent+learning+environment+in+Sakai+2x
>>      
> Thanks. I've chatted with Jacques (the excellent manifesto on syllabi
> for OAE), but hadn't seen that.
>
>    
>> Open Syllabus organizes the tasks of a course around an enhanced,
>> interactive syllabus structure, providing a guided, virtual dashboard for
>> all class resources, activities and products.
>>      
> This is indeed broadly similar to what I'm suggesting. But to be
> really blunt, organizing a UI around abstract terms like "context,"
> "structure" and "resource" is not user-friendly.
>
> Users don't interact with "resources": they read books, they watch
> videos, they listen to music, etc.
>
> That kind of thing.
>
> I want a concrete, user-focused, activity UI.
>
> So I'm imaging a UI and a model with just two things: tasks and topics
> (a named list of tasks), and that components of the task model (e.g.
> the verbs and the objects associated with a task) would be extensible.
>
> Bruce
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