current state of edufeedr project
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Presentation in IFI research seminar, Tallinn University, 23 November 2009TRANSCRIPT
Current state of EduFeedr project
Hans PõldojaTallinn University
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Introduction
Understanding open education
Open educational resources
Open and personal learning environment
Open courses
Learning environment
Learning content
Student blogs
Course wiki and bloglink and tag
link and tag link
link
RSS
link
Problem
Problem statement
Standard RSS readers lack the features for following and supporting learning activities which cross the borders of different Web 2.0 applications.
Design methodology
Methods
• Lightweight prototyping
• Scenario-based design
• Participatory design sessions
• User stories
• Paper prototyping
Prototyping a course database with Bento
Scenario-based design
(Carroll, 2000)
Scenarios
• First experience with EduFeedr
• Student is posting an assignment on her blog
• Exploring the connections between student blogs
• Setting up course feeds
• Archiving course posts and comments
• Using the offline client
Scenario 3: Exploring the connections between student blogs
John has been using EduFeedr for a few weeks. For him the most exiting feature is the way how connections between the blogs are presented. EduFeedr has a visualization where all the blogs are displayed as nodes. Lines between the nodes show the links between the blog posts. All the students have linked to the course blog. Some of the student blogs have a lot of connections while others have not been so active.
It is possible to switch on a different view and see who has commented which blog. This time John finds out that some student blogs have actually more comments than his blog.
The same information is also displayed as a table where it is easy to see how many pingbacks and comments each participant has made. EduFeedr has also aggregated all the comments. It means that John can see all comments that one student has made on a same page without visiting all the blogs. This will save him a lot of time, because commenting is part of his grading scheme and students get points for that.
Evaluating the scenarios
• Mozilla Foundation / Creative Commons open education course
• Two participatory design sessions
User stories
(Cohn, 2004)
Paper prototyping
Research-based design
(Leinonen et al, 2008)
Key features of EduFeedr
Signing up for the course
Visualizing the progress
Visualizing the social network
Writing notes about the blog posts
Archiving the course
Putting it all together...
Conclusions and future work
Conclusions and future work
• User stories and paper prototypes are currently in progress
• More design work is needed on aggregating group assignments and content from Web 2.0 environements
• Choosing a suitable open-source development platform and components
References
• Carroll, J. 2000. Making use. Scenario-based design of human-computer interactions. Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
• Cohn, M. 2004. User stories applied: For agile software development. Boston, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley.
• Leinonen, T., Toikkanen, T., and Silfvast, K. 2008. Software as Hypothesis: Research-Based Design Methodology. In Proceedings of Participatory Design Conference 2008, Indiana University, Oct 1-4 2008.
Photos
• Dov Harrington, http://www.flickr.com/photos/idovermani/3809348377/
• Sander Veenhof, http://www.flickr.com/photos/sndrv/3329968159/
• Sheila Thomson, http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheilaellen/2335636153/
Thank You!
• http://www.slideshare.net/hanspoldoja/
• http://www.edufeedr.org