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- 1. http://cede.lboro.ac.uk Melanie King Head, The Centre for Engineering & Design Education 18 Years developing educational technology for Loughborough University and beyond INSPIRE: International conference for Process Improvement, Research and Education March 2015, Loughborough University
- 2. The Centre for Engineering and Design Education • History of the Centre for Engineering and Design Education • A technical evolution: from XLS to Software as a Service (SaaS) • A management evolution: from Project Management to Product Management • A process evolution: from user requirements and sole developer to co-designing services and enterprise architectures • Can academia based edtech development compete with industry? Outline
- 3. The Centre for Engineering and Design Education The Centre’s History 1997 - 2000 The Faculty of Engineering Teaching and Learning Support Centre Funding: Internal – Faculty of Engineering Staff: 2 core, 3 fixed funded, 1 Faculty officer Technologies: Microsoft Office etc., Authorware, ASP.
- 4. The Centre for Engineering and Design Education 1997 Jonny Mnemonic
- 5. The Centre for Engineering and Design Education A CAL package on Floppys for Distance Learners Visual Basic in Excel for a Lab Assistant application. CAL packages on the University CAL Launcher An ASP web-based Peer Assessment System
- 6. The Centre for Engineering and Design Education The Centre’s History 2001 - 2005 Funding: Internal – Faculty of Engineering Staff: 3 core, 5 fixed funded, 1 Uni online learning officer Technologies: Microsoft Office etc., Authorware, ASP > PHP, Video / Audio, open source.
- 7. The Centre for Engineering and Design Education 2001 AI
- 8. The Centre for Engineering and Design Education HTML course material for Lboro’s first VLE Authorware application to automate template layout for VLE. Online tutorial for staff to creating digital video PHP / MySQL web application to create and mark registers Tailored existing open source PHP software ‘Claroline’ for Engineering Authorware applications for distance learners – virtual laboratories
- 9. The Centre for Engineering and Design Education The Centre’s History 2005 - 2011 Funding: HEFCE CETL Funding Staff: ~10 core, ~4 fixed funded Technologies: Microsoft Office etc. PHP, Video / Audio, open source. The Engineering Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
- 10. The Centre for Engineering and Design Education 2005 I Robot
- 11. The Centre for Engineering and Design Education Created more PHP /MySQL systems for academics: PROJECTLIST final year projects, WebPA and Co-Tutor CO-TUTOR: fourth iteration of the personal tutoring system Utilised more commercial software: Venture Strategy – online Business Simulation game (8 weeks) Co-opted existing open course CMS ‘Exponent’ for learning resource repositories
- 12. The Centre for Engineering and Design Education The Centre for Engineering and Design Education 2011 - Funding: 4 Engineering Schools and the Loughborough Design School Staff: 3.7FTE core, ~6FTE externally funded Technologies: HTML5, PHP /MySQL, Jquery, Bootstrap, Cloud etc. CEDE’s team of specialists work closely with the Engineering and Design Schools at Loughborough University to encourage effective practice and innovation in teaching and learning.
- 13. The Centre for Engineering and Design Education 2011 The Social Network
- 14. The Centre for Engineering and Design Education Placements / graduate opportunities database www.kit-catalogue.com www.webpaproject.comwww.co-tutor.co.uk Using commercial hosted systems where we can and its value for money CASPA: MySQL / PHP Assessment Management system Commercialisation Now developing for range of devices CASPA: PHP / MySQL system for assessment management
- 15. The Centre for Engineering and Design Education A technical evolution from XLS to Software as a Service (SaaS)
- 16. The Centre for Engineering and Design Education History of Development June 1999 Tutorial Support Database (MS Excel) Version 1 Version 1 was a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet with Visual Basic Macros to help enter all the data and organise the content for pastoral care and monitoring. The spreadsheet was located on each tutor’s local PC. 1 developer ~ 10 days
- 17. The Centre for Engineering and Design Education Tutorial Record System October 1999 Tutorial Record System Version 2 was a web based ASP application with a Microsoft Access Database. All student data had to be manually entered in to the database. The database and application was located on a department server. 1 developer ~ 20 days
- 18. The Centre for Engineering and Design Education Co-Tutor September 2003 Version 3 was a web based PHP application with a MySQL Database. All student data was automatically read in from a Central database using nightly CRON routines. The database and application was located on a Faculty server. 1 developer ~ 40 days
- 19. The Centre for Engineering and Design Education Co-Tutor January 2005 Version 4 was a web based PHP application with a MySQL Database. All student data was automatically read in from a Central database using nightly CRON routines. 1 developer ~ 20 days
- 20. The Centre for Engineering and Design Education Co-Tutor July 2009 Version 5 is a web based PHP application with a MySQL Database. It utitises nightly CRON’s and an API infrastructure to pass information between central and sister systems. The database and application is located on a Faculty server. 2 developers ~ 80 days
- 21. The Centre for Engineering and Design Education Commercial Co-Tutor September 2014 Version 5 is a web based PHP application with a MySQL Database. It utitises nightly CRON’s and an API infrastructure to pass information between central and sister systems. It uses PHP Frameworks to make it responsive and Jquery to add finesse. ~3 developers ~150 days
- 22. The Centre for Engineering and Design Education A management evolution from Project Management to Product Management
- 23. The Centre for Engineering and Design Education
- 24. The Product tree K I T CATALOGUE ® http://www.kit-catalogue.com The infrastructure / underlying database etc. The core / essence of the application Product areas The individual features
- 25. What is a product vision? K I T CATALOGUE ® http://www.kit-catalogue.com WHAT: Our product is the only __________________ HOW: that _________________________________ WHO: for __________________________________ WHERE: in _________________________________ WHY: who _________________________________ WHEN: in an era of __________________________
- 26. Feature / Problem cards K I T CATALOGUE ® http://www.kit-catalogue.com
- 27. Prioritisation versus Effort K I T CATALOGUE ® http://www.kit-catalogue.com Quick Wins Major projects Fill ins Hard slogs HIGH LOW LOW HIGH
- 28. The Centre for Engineering and Design Education A process evolution From user requirements and sole developer to co- designing services and enterprise architectures
- 29. The Centre for Engineering and Design Education
- 30. The Centre for Engineering and Design Education Can academia based edtech development compete with industry? 2014 marked a record year for global investment in Edtech companies Src: http://www.geekwire.com/2015/can-count-2-billion-education-technology-investment-hits-new-record/ $1.87 billion 24% of all global investment is made to companies in China “there’s a global trend [called] Retail Education“ (Adkins of Ambient Insight) Sep’12 Desire2Learn received another $80 million of investment Src: http://www.informationweek.com/software/education-tech-investments-surpassed-$1-billion-in-2012/d/d-id/1108366? Co-Tutor ~£250k (HEIF & Jisc) over three years to create a product to be used across HE & FE
- 31. The Centre for Engineering and Design Education What impact will global ‘me too’ products have on higher education in the UK?
- 32. The Centre for Engineering and Design Education Steve Jobs, in an interview about the release of the Macintosh, 24th January 1984 stated “We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make ‘me too’ products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it's always the next dream.” Src: http://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2013/10/05/lessons-learned-from-4-steve-jobs-quotes/
- 33. http://cede.lboro.ac.uk Melanie King Head, The Centre for Engineering & Design Education m.r.n.king@lboro.ac.uk INSPIRE: International conference for Process Improvement, Research and Education March 2015, Loughborough University