Huiping Liao

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• Huiping Liao
• July 2006
• Stanford University

Locate, Integrate Evaluate
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Agenda

• Learning Problem
• What is TeachSpace?
• Whom TeachSpace is for?
• Key Features
• Learning Theory and Design Principles
• Design Process
• Assessment Plan
• Questions Suggestion?

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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.

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What is TeachSpace?

• Background New technology pieces flood into K12
  schools, onsite or online, content-based or
  platform-based.

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CTB McGraw Harcourt Thomson Plato Renaissance Rive
rdeep Princeton Review Scantron ETS Compass
Learning Edmin NCS Pearson AOL Powerschool
(Apple) EduSoft (HM) Etc.
Traditional
Edison Aspen Education Aspire KIPP Apex
Learning K12 Class.com Explore Charter Schools

• Apple
• Dell
• IBM
• HP
• TI
• Palm

Kaplan College board Edison Oxford
McGraw Hill Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Britannica S
cholastic Princeton Review
Office Depot Harcourt LeapFrog Scholastic MEAD
Technology
Plato Compass Voyager EduSoft (HM) Etc.
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What is TeachSpace?

• Teachers Feedback

The uncertainty of its quality is my big concern
The biggest challenge is to integrate them into
our classroom teaching
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
I would like to know more about the underline
educational philosophy
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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

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Agenda

• Learning Problem
• What is TeachSpace?
• Whom TeachSpace is for?
• Key Features
• Learning Theory and Design Principles
• Design Process
• Assessment Plan
• Questions Suggestion?

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Whom TeachSpace is for?

• Users Study

Director of Technology School District
Tech Teachers
Moti Teachers
Followers
Tech Coordinator School A
Tech Coordinator School B
Trad Teachers
Teachers
Teachers
Organization structure
Teachers attitude
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Whom TeachSpace is for?

• 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

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Agenda

• Learning Problem
• What is TeachSpace?
• Whom TeachSpace is for?
• Key Features
• Theory and Design Principles
• Design Process
• Assessment Plan
• Questions Suggestion?

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What key features TeachSpace has?

• Database Structure

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

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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

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What key features TeachSpace has?
Sample Screenshots
First page of search
Advanced search options
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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)

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What key features TeachSpace has?
Differentiate from Competitors
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Agenda

• Learning Problem
• What is TeachSpace?
• Whom TeachSpace is for?
• Key Features
• Learning Theory and Design Principles
• Design Process
• Assessment Plan
• Questions Suggestion?

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Whats our design rationales?

• Situative Learning
• Definition of learning
• Transfer of learning
• Learning environments
• Assessments

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Whats our design rationales?

• 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

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Agenda

• Learning Problem
• What is TeachSpace?
• Whom TeachSpace is for?
• Key Features
• Learning Theory and Design Principles
• Design Process
• Assessment Plan
• Questions Suggestion?

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How TeachSpace is designed?

• Design Process

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How we assess using and learning?

• Experimental Usability Test
• Quantitative Methods
• Knowledge Transferring
• Qualitative Methods ( interview teachers)

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Whats 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?

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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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Questions and Suggestions
Thank You !