2. Huiping Liao July 2006 Stanford University

3. Agenda Learning Problem What is TeachSpace? Whom TeachSpace is for? Key Features Learning Theory and Design Principles Design Process Assessment Plan Questions & Suggestion?

4. 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.

5. What is TeachSpace? Background: New technology pieces flood into K12 schools, onsite or online, content-based or platform-based.

6. 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.

7. 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:

8. What is TeachSpace? Our Mission TeachSpace is an online educational resources community that helps tech coordinators and teachers locate and integrate online resources and web-based teaching tools through its user- contributed evaluation system. Our goal is to support them to achieve meaningful, technology-infused learning environments

9. Agenda Learning Problem What is TeachSpace? Whom TeachSpace is for? Key Features Learning Theory and Design Principles Design Process Assessment Plan Questions & Suggestion?

10. Users Study: Users Study: Whom TeachSpace is for? Tech Teachers Moti Teachers Followers Trad Teachers Director of Technology School District Tech Coordinator School A Tech Coordinator School B Teachers Organization structure Teachers’ attitude

11. 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

12. Agenda Learning Problem What is TeachSpace? Whom TeachSpace is for? Key Features Theory and Design Principles Design Process Assessment Plan Questions & Suggestion?

13. What key features TeachSpace has? 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 Normalized Relational Database Avoid the redundant data store Minimize work for update Describe clear relations Totally dependence on primary keys Uniqueness of cell values Normalized Relational Database Avoid the redundant data Minimize work for update Describe clear relations Totally dependence on primary keys Uniqueness of cell values

14. What key features TeachSpace has? Framework Normalized Relational Database Avoid the redundant data store Minimize work for update Describe clear relations Totally dependence on primary keys Uniqueness of cell values Normalized Relational Database Avoid the redundant data store Minimize work for update Describe clear relations Totally dependence on primary keys Uniqueness of cell values

15. What key features TeachSpace has? Sample Screenshots First page of searchAdvanced search options

16. 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)

17. What key features TeachSpace has? Differentiate from Competitors

18. Agenda Learning Problem What is TeachSpace? Whom TeachSpace is for? Key Features Learning Theory and Design Principles Design Process Assessment Plan Questions & Suggestion?

19. What’s our design rationales? Situative Learning Situative Learning Definition of learning Transfer of learning Learning environments Assessments

20. What’s our design rationales? Design Principles Design 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

21. Agenda Learning Problem What is TeachSpace? Whom TeachSpace is for? Key Features Learning Theory and Design Principles Design Process Assessment Plan Questions & Suggestion?

22. How TeachSpace is designed? Design Process Design Process

23. How we assess using and learning? Experimental Usability Test Quantitative Methods Knowledge Transferring Qualitative Methods ( interview teachers)

24. 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?

25. 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).

26. Questions and Suggestions