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Huiping Liao
July 2006
Stanford University
Agenda
Learning ProblemWhat is TeachSpace?Whom TeachSpace is for?Key FeaturesLearning Theory and Design Principles Design ProcessAssessment PlanQuestions & Suggestion?
Learning Problem
While new web-based technology resources flood into schools, technology coordinators and teachers realize that it is hard to locate appropriate online educational resources and integrate them into their teaching and learning.
What is TeachSpace? Background: New technology pieces flood into K12
schools, onsite or online, content-based or platform-based.
EducationOperators/Delivery
Instruct.Content
HW/Infrastructure
Supplies/Products
SpecialEd/Tutoring
Prof. Development
Assessment
Curriculum & Data Mgmt
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Market Size
Edison
Aspen Education
Aspire
KIPP
Apex Learning
K12
Class.com
Explore
Charter Schools
McGraw Hill
Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt
Britannica
Scholastic
Princeton Review
Plato
Compass
Voyager
EduSoft (HM)
Etc.
Traditional
Technology
Apple
Dell
IBM
HP
TI
Palm
Office Depot
Harcourt
LeapFrog
Scholastic
MEAD
Kaplan
College
board
Edison
Oxford
CTB McGraw
Harcourt
Thomson
Plato
Renaissance
Riverdeep
Princeton Review
Scantron
ETS
Compass Learning
Edmin
NCS Pearson
AOL
Powerschool (Apple)
EduSoft (HM)
Etc.
What is TeachSpace?
“The biggest challenge is to integrate them into our classroom teaching”
“The uncertainty of its quality is my big concern”
“I would like to know more about the underline educational philosophy”
“a sense of how other teachers use it may help me decide whether I should use it or how I am going to use it”
Teachers’ Feedback:
What is TeachSpace?
Our MissionOur MissionTeachSpace is an online educational TeachSpace is an online educational resources community that helps tech resources community that helps tech coordinators and teachers locate and coordinators and teachers locate and integrate online resources and web-integrate online resources and web-based teaching tools through its user-based teaching tools through its user-contributed evaluation system. Our goal contributed evaluation system. Our goal is to support them to achieve is to support them to achieve meaningful, technology-infused meaningful, technology-infused learning environmentslearning environments
AgendaLearning ProblemWhat is TeachSpace?Whom TeachSpace is for?Key FeaturesLearning Theory and Design Principles Design ProcessAssessment PlanQuestions & Suggestion?
Users Study:Users Study:
Whom TeachSpace is for?
Tech Teachers
Moti Teachers
Followers
Trad Teachers
Director of TechnologySchool District
Tech CoordinatorSchool A
Tech CoordinatorSchool B
Teachers Teachers
Organization structure Teachers’ attitude
Whom TeachSpace is for?
Defined Audience:Defined Audience: Technology coordinators at school
level Teachers who are motivated to use
new technology and online resources for their teaching and learning
Directors of technology at school districts
Agenda
Learning ProblemWhat is TeachSpace?Whom TeachSpace is for?Key FeaturesTheory and Design Principles Design ProcessAssessment PlanQuestions & Suggestion?
What key features TeachSpace has?
Database StructureNormalized Relational Database• Avoid the redundant data • Minimize work for update • Describe clear relations• Totally dependence on primary keys• Uniqueness of cell values
What key features TeachSpace has?
Framework
What key features TeachSpace has?
Sample ScreenshotsFirst page of search Advanced search options
What key features TeachSpace has?
Customized User Interface (to be developed)
• Personal Profile • Personal links • Personal Preference on displaying
format• Personal Interests (subscription of
other resources with RSS feeds)
What key features TeachSpace has?
Differentiate from Competitors
XXXSuggest integration methods
XXXXXXExpose endorsement from experts
XXXExpose educational philosophy
XXXXXXSearch for relevant specified results
XSelect items by users with expertise
XXXXStand at user’s sideSearch in database Search on WebSearch in databaseMarco PoloBlueWebNTeachSpace
XXXSuggest integration methods
XXXXXXExpose endorsement from experts
XXXExpose educational philosophy
XXXXXXSearch for relevant specified results
XSelect items by users with expertise
XXXXStand at user’s sideSearch in database Search on WebSearch in databaseMarco PoloBlueWebNTeachSpace
Agenda
Learning ProblemWhat is TeachSpace?Whom TeachSpace is for?Key FeaturesLearning Theory and Design Principles Design ProcessAssessment PlanQuestions & Suggestion?
What’s our design rationales?
Situative LearningSituative Learning Definition of learning Transfer of learning Learning environments Assessments
What’s our design rationales?
Design PrinciplesDesign Principles Simplicity
for users: search& evaluation; personal links to other resources in use; personalized subscriptions
For developers: database maintenance; webmaster
Learner-Centered Community-Based Learning Environments
Agenda
Learning ProblemWhat is TeachSpace?Whom TeachSpace is for?Key FeaturesLearning Theory and Design Principles Design ProcessAssessment PlanQuestions & Suggestion?
How TeachSpace is designed?
Design ProcessDesign Process
How we assess using and learning?
Experimental Usability TestQuantitative Methods
Knowledge TransferringQualitative Methods ( interview teachers)
What’s our next step? Customize User Interface ( RSS and AJAX)
Challenges: Collecting online resources into our database
according to our database structure ( time-consuming )
To what level we should allow users control their own data?
Acknowledgements
S356 Group: Bartholomew Rashad, Xiao Wang, Kelsey Twist, Kristin Laura
Educ490 Market Research Group: Bartholomew Rashad
Coordinators and Directors: Jeanne Kwuang, Kyle BrumBaugh ( San Mateo School District); Suzanne Mitchell, Parker Kelly ( Los Lomitas School District); Hilary McDaniel ( Polo Alto High School) Kattie Miller ( Stanford )
Greeno, J. G., Collins, A. & Resnick, L. B. (1996). “Cognition and learning” (Chap. 2).
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