Designing for Inclusion

john.traxler@wlv.ac.uk@johntraxler

John Traxler

Excerpts and exercises from a longer more comprehensive approach

FIRSTLY, THINKING ABOUT THE DESIGN SPACE

What’s the Problem?

• Doing what we do but better– What problem, what need (of yours) could

learning with mobiles solve?– How would you know it had been solved? How

much would it cost, what would it take?– What were the alternatives? Opportunity costs?

Risks? – How do you measure, compare, decide?– In what ways does education need to catch up /

keep up?

What’s the Opportunity?

• Doing what we could now do but don’t– What are the opportunities? – What can education borrow, transform, adapt and

adopt for other practice, profession, activity, organisation?

– How can education experiment, innovate, evaluate, convince, embed? How can education change (safely)?

– How do you be transformative in your institution? What is your ‘theory of change’?

NEXT, SOMETHING ABOUT LEARNING HABITS

Learning Habits 10 mins

• Describe how you would– start learning a new language (Arabic or

Swahili)– learn Indian or Arab cookery – understand the outbreak of World War I– start kayaking or surfing– learn coding in Python– tracing your ancestors, – buying a house legals,–writing a local history

And …..

• Describe how you would make choices – Trust– Group-think– Reputation– Loyalty– Authority– Recommendation– Ratings– Habit– …....other?

Describe Curriculum as Content

• Stable or emergent or unstable• Graphical, visual, audio or textual• Hierarchic, sequence, structured or messy

INTERLUDE: WHAT IS A DESIGN?

Design

MobiMOOC

Key Components of Design• identifying constraints – the design space• discovering learners’ habits, environment and

expectations• heuristics for

– curating communities– curating content– creating structure/sequence– selecting tools– building participation

• iteratively improving• measuring quality

PLANNING PARTS OF YOUR DESIGN

Curating Content

• Search terms• Look back period• Language• Media • Emergent/stable/established/volatile• Culturally/socially /institutionally/politically

specific– Essentially metadata

Curating Communities• How big • How active• How stable• How consensual• How formal• Closed?• Balance of opinion and fact• Hierarchical or peer or moderated• Nature of transactions - resources, opinions,

ideas, information

Creating Navigation and Structure

• Registration, profile• Provide structure to start with• Filter, structure and sequence topics and

connections

Selecting Tools 10 mins• Elgg, Joomla, Facebook, LinkedIn, Joomla, Drupal, WordPress: host communities,

resources and profiles– practicalities: choose open vs closed, choose moderation or not

• Google Docs, SlideShare, Dropbox, Flickr, YouTube, Panopto, Acrobat Cloud: host content and reviews

• Easychair: peer review and rating• Zotero, Scoop.It, Flipboard, Pulse, Evernote, Pinterest, Google Currents, Diigo:

curates external content and/or local content• Hangouts, Twitter, Skype, Adobe Connect, Slack, Basecamp: connects learners• Survey Monkey, Socrative: facilitates quizzes, surveys and feedback• Trello, SimpleMind+: helps learners manage learning, individually and in groups • Prezi, QuickOffice, Kingsoft Office, Sliderocket: facilitates the creation of learner

content• Google, Bing, Google Scholar: finds content and communities• Doodle, Evenbrite: coordination

Thanks

John.traxler@wlv.ac.uk

@johntraxler