1. Discover ED
@sergiomajluf
Thesis Project
ITP Class of 2014
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March 11th 2014 | Mid Term Presentation

2. A digital collaboration
environment that improves
students’ learning
experiences by letting
them build and share
meaningful links between
existing online content.
DiscoverED is

3. WHY?
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My Learning + Teaching experience makes
DiscoverED both
Personal & Professional
Classroom
Experience

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My Learning + Teaching experience makes
DiscoverED both
Personal & Professional
Classroom
Experience Research

5. WHY?
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My Learning + Teaching experience makes
DiscoverED both
Personal & Professional
Classroom
Experience Research Implement

7. Those hungry for more opportunities
…but facing huge job/skills gap

8. Millennials are the
largest population
group worldwide.
Generation Y: Educated, underemployed and
in debt. http://www.reuters.com/article/
2010/05/19/us-column-personalfinance-
idUSTRE64I4M220100519
Current educational
context, particularly
Higher-Ed, can be
considered a post
scarcity economy, as
one where there are
unlimited information
resources.
Ryan Bubinski Co-founder CTO Codecademy,
2014 @ ITP Talk.
Also, millennials
are the most
educated, yet the
most unemployed
or underemployed.
Pew Research Center, 2010. http://
usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/education/
2010-02-24-millennials24_st_n.htm
Learning occurs not
as a response to
teaching, but
rather as a result of
a social framework
that fosters it.
John Seely Brown.
Learning in the Digital Age.
An open, persistent
system not bound
by semesters could
allow students to
(…) track their
development
along several
paths.
J.C.Herz.
Learning in the Digital Age.
…the irony that in their
current form, MOOCs
are modeled after the
least interesting
instructional modes of
the age of mass higher
education.
Anya Kamenetz,
DIY U. http://diyubook.com/2013/06/can-we-move-
beyond-the-mooc-and-reclaim-open-learning/
Opportunity for a new tool.
The lack of proper tools for higher ed students has
lowered their chances of leverage the overwhelming
amount of information, thus lowering their learning level,
and reducing their knowledge acquisition and skills.

9. Context
competition inspiration

10. WHY?
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Thesis week »
ResearchClassroom
Experience Implement

11. DiscoverED is a digital
collaboration environment
that improves students’
learning experiences,
which can be augmented by links from other
users and also from the platform.
by letting them build and share
meaningful links between existing
online content,

12. rED is a digital
ation environment
proves students’
experiences
augmented by links from
o from the platform.
them build and share
l links between existing
tent,
‣ mobile & web
‣ git
‣ (measurable)
‣ tool
‣ social
‣ personal

13. Macro user interaction

14. Backend prototype
http://www.discover-ed.com/alpha

15. Backend prototype
http://www.discover-ed.com/alpha

16. User
Interface
Wireframes

17. Cues form the classroom
Back into the public discussion
Am I solving a problem?

18. http://www.discover-ed.com/alpha
Discover ED
Sergio Majluf
Thesis Project
ITP Class of 2014
!
March 11th 2014 | Mid Term Presentation

19. Media Credits
All Slides
Paper Texture - http://subtlepatterns.com
Slide 3
Cloud Link - http://www.gettyimages.com/
Slide 7
Hire Me - http://www.behance.net/AmandaJonovski
Age Pyramid - http://www.newmediaandmarketing.com/the-millennial-generation/age-
pyramid-2/
College Graduates - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:College_graduate_students.jpg
Computer Lab - http://technical.ly/philly/2013/12/23/moocs-online-education/
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iPhone and iMac Comps
Pixeden - http://www.pixeden.com