[Using Sakai] Thank you and Next Steps for those who attended the learning activities investigation kickoff

[kamann at stanford.edu]

Hello
Thanks to all who attended our kickoff call. It was great to have so many people attend, though we are sorry if some had difficulty getting on the conference line--please let us know if you weren't getting in so we can adjust our plans for the next meeting.

Meeting Notes 
(posted to http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/UX/Kickoff+Meeting) 
We'll be adding the names of the people we either saw in the Breeze or heard on the phone, but if we missed you or misspelled your name, please add your name to this page.

    * For those of you who want to participate in the stakeholder discussion, visithttp://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/UX/Stakeholder Interviews
    * For those of you who wish to contribute to Benchmarking of related products, please leave comments athttp://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/UX/Benchmarking
    * For those of you who want to participate in end user interviews, read the next steps

Next Steps
For those of you who are interested in conducting end user interviews at your campus, there are a few to dos
1) Take a look at the two outstanding issues below that were raised during the meeting.
2) Visit the page Ethnographic Interviews - Interviewing and Observing Usersand

a) Review the Contextual Inquiry guidelines. Make note of any questions you have

b) Start thinking about people you might recruit and enter the types of people you think you might interview (do not contact them until you've considered the IRB issue below)

3) Attend upcoming meetings. We'll send out a reminder this Friday with meeting details. We'll be sure to send out meeting details to the sakai-user, ux, and pedagogy lists, but we anticipate meetings for the next 5 weeks every Tuesday at the same time. A detailed calendar can be seen athttp://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/UX/Schedule for Investigation Phase.

Outstanding Issues
A few issues were raised during the meeting. We can discuss this by email and at the next meeting

1) Institutional Review Board: Although this is research with humans subjects, we believe this would be considered a quality improvement project, which many IRBs would consider exempt. Nonetheless, since every IRB is different, please contact your campus IRB if you have concerns as to whether your they would consider this endeavor generalizable research with human subjects. Contact us if you have any questions; we'll will post a page describing this project, including confidentiality measures and consent forms we plan on using, before the end of the week. In short, though, we do not plan on publishing or presenting this research; we will describe the personas based on user interviews as we describe the design that they inspire. We will credit all schools and people that participated, but will not make public the individual interview notes, except anonymously among interviewees.

2) Instructional Designers as interviewers and interviewees: Because instructional designers work directly with instructors, we think they'll do well at interviewing end users, even if it is finding longer term design solutions, rather than an immediate fix. However, we were reminded during the kickoff that we also want Instructional Designers as interviewees, since they are involved in the creation of learning activities. We'll be reaching out to the IDs on the call to discuss ways we can have they both be interviewers and interviewees (we may create a custom Contextual Inquiry guideline for IDs or enlist the IDs to help create this).