LDT at Stanford GSE Master Project Presentation May 12th, 2000

1. Redesigning a Communication Support System for Teachers
05/12/2000
Yasuhisa Kato yasukato@stanford.edu
Learning, Design, and Technology
Master Project

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Table of Contents
Background
CASTL
KML
Workspace
Learning
Problems and Needs
Design Principles
Sneak Preview
Future Work

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CASTL Program
The Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Objectives
Foster learning for students
Enhance teaching
Share project work
One year program for higher education, and two-year for K-12

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Scholarship of Teaching (SoT)
Three features
Being public (community property)
Open to critique and evaluation
Available for reuse
Investigation of student learning

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CASTL (Community I)
Closed community
Across the country
Two face-to-face meetings a year
Including kick off face-to-face meeting
20 to 30 people
Selected by their project proposal, not by their technological skill

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CASTL (Community II)
Wide variety of subject area
Chemistry, Mathematics, English, History
Business, Psychology, and Performing arts

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KML
The Knowledge Media Laboratory of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Functions
Developing online web-based communication tools, called the Workspace
Facilitating teachers to use a variety of media to present their investigation
Developing resources which promote the understanding and pursuit of the SoT.
Helping to build a larger network of teachers

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Workspace
For program participants and Carnegie staff
Usage
Post and share project documents
Comments
Resources
Component
A set of web-based communication tools
Online multimedia database
Running from Jan. 1999

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Workspace (Current system)
Demonstration
Scholar Workspace
Listserv archive
Program Documents, etc

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What do they learn?
Each participant has his/her own project.
Different people have different goals.
Each individual seeks to develop his/her her own scholarship of teaching and learning.

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How do they learn?
Self learning on campus
Peer review
Face-to-face meeting
Direct E-mail or Telephone
Via the Workspace

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Sample Project
Prof. Stephen Chew Psychology, Samford University
Using Examples in Teaching: Progress and General Reflection
Focus on the use of examples in teaching.
What are the properties of a good example?
What is the best way to use examples in teaching?
What do students learn from examples?

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Problems
Participants do not actively post their project work and responses
Less posting, less feedback
Why
Limitation of text only
No appropriate communication tool
Usability issues
Distrust of the new system/technology

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Mailing list traffic (98)
05101520253035404550 12/9801/9902/9903/9904/9905/9906/9907/9908/9909/9910/9911/9912/9901/0002/0003/0004/0005/00 Month E-mail

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Needs
Establish a discourse
Profound discussion
More feedback
Critical peer reviews
Technical knowledge/skills
Advantages of tools
Tools
Chat
Auto notification

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Design Principles
Media Richness
Text only Multimedia
Increase Interactivity
Enhance Motivation
Simple User Interface

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Sneak Preview
Development is in progress

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Evaluation criteria
Usefulness/Satisfaction
How helpful is the tool for the project work?
Interaction
Frequency: Web access, Mailing list, etc.
Depth: analysis of mailing list, Posting
Usability
What problems/difficulties?
Needs assessment
What additional help/tool are needed?

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User Testing Plan
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Needs
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Usability
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Interaction
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Usefulness
Tracking
Questionnaire
Observation

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Schedule
Implementation and System Integration (- 5/31)
Initial setup and Data migration (6/1 – 6/11)
CASTL meeting (6/12 – 6/23)
Orientation and Computer Lab
Web survey (August or September)
User Tracking (6/1 – 12/31)
Evaluation & Redesign next version

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Acknowledgement
Professor Decker Walker
Program coordinator Deborah Kim
Carnegie Foundation Dr. Toru Iiyoshi
Carnegie Foundation Dr. Tom Hatch
LDTers

22. Thank you for your attention!
Yasuhisa Kato
Yasukato@stanford.edu

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URLs
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/
CASTL Program: http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/OurWork/CASTL/castl.htm
Master project: http://ldt.stanford.edu/~yasukato/mp/