[sakai2-tcc] Reporting back on the significant progress being made by the Teaching and Learning WG

[Berg, Alan]

Dear TCC,


Neal and I have been participating in the weekly Teaching and Learning WG conference calls lead by Josh Baron. The main theme of these well participated calls is to answer the question of practicality. How do we help evolve specific details in Sakai to improve pedagogical interaction.


In the short term the focus is on practical, actionable efforts. Lesson builder is a bright beacon of increased functionality, a bridge head to more intimate contact with the developer community. The WG have already made contact with Chuck H and explored area's of functionality. To keep the work actionable, all the issues and feature requests will be accumulated under a master Jira as sub Jira's. The WG is modest, it is not asking Chuck to work infinite hours. Once the scope of the actionables from the review becomes clear then the WG intends to 'engage institutional decision makers as means to help find the resources needed to support the related development effort'.


In the middle term the WG has a clear mission. It wishes to translate the design lenses into actionables. The lessons learned from the current process will inform the Group on its path to achievement.


I am optimistic about the process. I believe that the long term sustainability of Sakai CLE depends on the TCC evolving to PMC, where the emphasis moves away from the technical to the product. We more fully engage the community and the load of effort is more evenly distributed between the different knowledge domains. There is encapsulated wisdom in the design lenses. If the Teaching and Learning WG manage to constructively engage then we are all enriched.


If you have any questions, Neal and I can report back in our roles of support and Josh as the chair.


I look forward to the WG's continuing efforts.


Regards,
           Alan


Alan Berg

Innovation working group
On the use of ICT in Education & Research
University of Amsterdam
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/sakai2-tcc/attachments/20130808/ac0c30e1/attachment.html