[Portfolio] REMINDER > Today's Sakai Teaching and Learning Call
Josh Baron
Josh.Baron at marist.edu
Wed Aug 14 10:32:49 PDT 2013
As a reminder, we will be starting up our weekly Teaching and Learning
call in about 30 minutes at 2 PM Eastern Time (New York). Dial-in
information is below.
Last week I posted an update email in an attempt to summarize where our
collective thinking over the past two months as lead us and to outline
what I see as an emerging plan for conducting T&L Capability Reviews on
key Sakai CLE functionality with the work on Lesson Builder being the
first example of how we might engage in such work. My post on this is
below.
At the same time that we've been making good progress on this work, there
have been continued discussions on how we might collaborate with the
larger CLE community on developing a longer-term vision for where Sakai is
headed over the next few years. I'm personally interested in talking
about how we might engage in these different efforts in parallel but with
the size of the group involved right now I'm not sure how to best proceed
and thus would like to discuss this on the call today if possible.
Finally, with semesters starting up in North America I'm anticipating that
we'll all be "distracted" a bit for the next couple of weeks. We may wish
to map out a realistic call/work plan for this time period so that we
don't loose the current momentum.
Josh
CONFERENCE CALL DIAL-IN INFORMATION
Within United States: 1-888-447-7153
International: 1-719-387-1138
Participant Code: 917798 (then hit "#")
Colleagues,
I wanted to report out on the Sakai Teaching and Learning call that was
held today as the group is starting to move towards an actionable plan and
it would be very useful to get input from a broad cross section of the
community. I also know that not everyone who has been on the prior calls
was available today and thus wanted to make them aware of the discussion.
After a series of conference calls following the Open Apereo conference
(see https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/BwrzB), the Sakai Teaching and
Learning Group has begun to develop plans to engage in a process to review
the Lesson Builder/Lessons tool being developed by Rutgers University (and
others) as means to identify new capabilities and new user interface
designs that would enhance its use from a teaching and learning
perspective. Our hope is that this process, once matured, could become a
model for work with other Sakai tools and capabilities as well as means to
engage in longer-term strategic planning for the product. Central to this
work is the commitment that once new capabilities and designs are
identified, that the group would work to engage institutional decision
makers as means to help find the resources needed to support the related
development effort.
Over the past couple of weeks there has been an effort to engage in a
preliminary effort to review the Lesson Builder/Lessons tool which has
been lead by Marilyn Dispensa and Rob Fentress as well as several others.
Some of the outcomes of this work are documented at:
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/PED/Lessons+Tool%3A+Best+Practices+and+Suggestions
. At the same time, the group has identified the need to also engage in a
usability review and wish to make this part of the review process as well.
Based on this preliminary work and discussions, the Teaching and Learning
group is now starting to draft a document that would outline how we might
engage in a review process.
You can find a draft T&L Capability Review Process document at:
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/QwzzB
We are encouraging everyone to look at this draft and either add to it or
post comments as means of providing feedback. Our hope is to complete the
process document in the next 1-2 weeks and then engage in the review
effort more formally. As we start up the more formal review process we
will be rescheduling our calls as we know there are folks interested in
participating who cannot make the current call schedule.
Josh
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Joshua Baron
Senior Academic Technology Officer
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, New York 12601
(845) 575-3623 (work)
Twitter: JoshBaron
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