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LDT at Stanford GSE Master Project Presentation May 12th, 2000
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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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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
X X Needs
X X Usability
X X Interaction
X X 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
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/OurWo
rk/CASTL/castl.htm
Master project:
http://ldt.stanford.edu/~yasukato/mp/
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