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

Tue Dec 1 07:13:17 PST 2009

Hi Amber,

I'm encouraged to hear that some of what you have found in your contextual inquiry is already hinted at in the Learning Capabilities spreadsheet.  It makes me more optimistic that these different kinds of efforts will dovetail and build on each other as the community pushes forward towards a deep understanding of how Sakai 3 needs to support teaching and learning.  Any of the themes and activity flows emerging in the spreadsheet would benefit from the kind of deeper understanding that comes from contextual inquiry. I'm anxiously looking forward to the sharing that Keli Amann in a recent message said would happen by the end of January. Recently, Janice Smith has added concepts to the spreadsheet that reflect work the Portfolio community has done. There were hints in the spreadsheet already about portfolio-like capabilities, but the spreadsheet is much improved by the thorough treatment of these ideas directly from the Portfolio community. I think the
 rewards for finding and maintaining these broad connections between various teaching and learning concepts will be a rich set of Sakai 3 services available anywhere in the system and not just tied to specific tools or views.

Regards - David Goodrum

Director, Academic and Faculty Services
Learning Technologies
University Information Technology Services
Indiana University

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From: Amber D. Evans <adevans at vt.edu>
To: Sakai UX <sakai-ux at collab.sakaiproject.org>
Sent: Mon, November 30, 2009 3:11:22 PM
Subject: Re: [DG: User Experience] [DG: Teaching & Learning] Leading Design

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).  

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, 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

Training and Documentation Coordinator, Online Course Systems (OCS)
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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.
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>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.
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>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?
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>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.  
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>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
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>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.
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>For now it's a place to play out some ideas.
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>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.
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>- David
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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
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>>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
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>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
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>~Clay
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>[1] https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AlfbHxo2qpHEdHRuSnowVGMwWE9HY1MtVjFpY1dtS0E&hl=en
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