[Portfolio] Sakai T&L > Seeking Feedback on Proposal for a Capability Review Process

Wed Aug 14 12:39:41 PDT 2013

All,

Thanks Neal for posting your note following the Teaching and Learning call 
today.  And yes, your summary reflects my understanding of the discussion 
and next steps although I think we might be able to include a best 
practices documentation effort in the Capability Review Process. 

I would like to encourage everyone who is interested to take 5-10 minutes 
to review the latest version (I've updated based on the call) of the T&L 
Capability Review Process proposal which is at: 
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/QwzzB.   We would like 
feedback/commented posted by Wednesday, August 21, 2013.

BACKGROUND:  For those who have not been tracking this work too closely, 
the group has spent time over the past month or two engaged in a bit of an 
experiment using the Lesson/Lesson Builder tool to investigate how the 
group might provide feedback on incremental enhancements to specific CLE 
capabilities which we think could enrich the teaching and learning 
experience.  This work has gone well and we are now trying to develop a 
draft process based on it that we can implement in a bit more of a formal 
approach.  Assuming this goes well, we'd use the experience to develop a 
final T&L Capability Review Process that we could apply to other tools 
over time. 

Again, getting a lot of folks to take a few minutes to provide feedback at 
this point would be a big help!

Josh

-----------------------------
Joshua Baron
Senior Academic Technology Officer
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, New York  12601
(845) 575-3623 (work)
Twitter: JoshBaron

From:   Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org>
To:     Josh Baron <Josh.Baron at marist.edu>, 
Cc:     portfolio at collab.sakaiproject.org, 
pedagogy at collab.sakaiproject.org, sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
Date:   08/14/2013 03:17 PM
Subject:        Re: [Using Sakai] [DG: Teaching & Learning] REMINDER > 
Today's        Sakai Teaching and Learning Call
Sent by:        sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org

Hi Josh,

>From today's meeting it sounded like the immediate "task" requested is to 
get everyone to comment on the T&L Capability Review Process. Is that 
correct?
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/QwzzB 

We had discussion on three possible "streams". One stream is a high level, 
strategic view of Sakai, another is best practices in using the tools. The 
Capability Review Process is focused on incremental improvements, 
practical stuff, to the current tool set. Does that sound about right? The 
other two are important as well, just we need someplace to start. 

Also, there seemed to be consensus to try out applying the Capability 
Review Process to the Lessons tool first so we can learn from that, and 
then we might look at the state of other tools and community needs (Blog 
tool, Wiki tool, Assignments 1 vs 2, Gradebook 1 vs 2 , etc).

My take-aways from the meeting.

Cheers,
Neal

Neal Caidin
Sakai CLE Community Coordinator
neal.caidin at apereo.org
Skype: nealkdin
Twitter: ncaidin

On Aug 14, 2013, at 1:32 PM, Josh Baron <Josh.Baron at marist.edu> wrote:

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 

-----------------------------
Joshua Baron
Senior Academic Technology Officer
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, New York  12601
(845) 575-3623 (work)
Twitter: JoshBaron_______________________________________________
pedagogy mailing list
pedagogy at collab.sakaiproject.org
http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/pedagogy

TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send email to pedagogy-unsubscribe at collab.sakaiproject.org 
with a subject of "unsubscribe"
_______________________________________________
sakai-user mailing list
sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/sakai-user

TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send email to 
sakai-user-unsubscribe at collab.sakaiproject.org with a subject of 
"unsubscribe"
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/portfolio/attachments/20130814/f36e5404/attachment-0001.html 