TeachSpace, an Online Resource Community

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TeachSpace, an Online Resource Community
TeachSpace, an Online Resource Community
Locate, Integrate Evaluate
ASSESSMENT We will conduct assessment on
whether users use TeachSpace in the way we design
for, and where and how learning occurs.
Usability Test After the website is launched
with some collective intelligence, we will
conduct path analysis to get statistical data on
usability of TeachSpace. Learning Test We
interview teachers, technology coordinators and
directors through our marketing research and user
study. We convey our design to users through
descriptions, pictures and comparisons. Learning
occurs as users measure their teaching audience,
their personal teaching style, their educational
believes and teaching environment when they are
given new resource. Users demonstrate creativity
on suggesting different ways of integrate the
same piece of resources into diverse learning
environments.

• 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.
  They lack of effective and efficient supports to
  achieve technology-infused learning environments.
• Learning Needs
• There are more than enough web-based educational
  resources for teachers More than 4,600
  technology representatives from more than 500 k12
  educational technology companies are at NECC
  Conference this year. 402 lesson plans are
  displayed at Marco Polo Educations website that
  meets the criteria for mathematics and addition.
• Teachers say 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 can use it.
• Learner Study
• Technology coordinators play crucial roles on
  pushing the calendar for technology-infused
  learning environments.
• Successful experience on using online resources
  and a sense of belonging to a group will generate
  commitment and consistency

Huiping Liao
DESIGN SOLUTION
Database Structure

• Normalized Relational Database
• Avoid the redundant data store
• Minimize work for update
• Describe clear relations
• Totally dependence on primary keys
• Uniqueness of cell values

DESIGN PROCESS
Usability Diagram
We have conducted three iterations on design
TeachSpace following our design process diagram.
Majority of our efforts are to understand our
users and the existing marketing.
Marco Polo

• FURTHER DEVELOPMENT
• We will continue working on collecting online
  educational resources and encourage users to
  participate in the collecting works.
• We will develop frequent experimental usability
  test for TeachSpace and adjust our design
  accordingly.
• Our challenge is to provide customized user
  interface. We are still trying to answer
  questions about how personal the UI should be,
  how much control we should give users to their
  own data.

• Technology coordinators at schools
• Teachers motivated in using online resources in
  teaching and learning
• Directors of technology at school districts

Differentiation from Competitors

• SITUATIVE LEARNING
• Users locate and integrate online resources by
  associating knowledge and information from their
  environment to practical applications in their
  personal community
• Users are encouraged to promote inquiry and
  response through the knowledge transfer process
  about appropriately integrating suitable
  resources into their teaching.
• Learning outcomes are demonstrated through user
  reviewing and progress tracking based upon
  individual increase in participation within the
  community, and the amount of learning applied by
  a learner in locating, integrating and evaluating
  online resources

TeachSpace BlueWebN Marco Polo
Search in database Search on Web Search in database
Stand at users side XXX X
Select items by users with expertise X
Search for relevant specified results XXX XXX
Expose educational philosophy XXX
Expose endorsement from experts XXX XXX
Suggest integration methods XXX

• Credit Reference
• 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)
• Greeno, J. G., Collins, A. Resnick, L. B.
  (1996). Cognition and learning (Chap. 2). In D.
  C. Berliner R. C. Calfee (Eds.), Handbook of
  educational psychology. New York Macmillan.