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Explore project collaborations, staff issues, dissemination strategies, and evaluation activities to drive educational technology forward. Addressing unexpected user requirements and technical skill set relationships are key.
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Formative Evaluations Margaret Markland CERLIM
Activities and progress • staffing problems and institutional systems • support of project partners • interdependency in the wider environment • software tools
Learning from implementation • what is ‘theoretically true’ may not be so in practice • the local ‘fix’ v the wider community • unexpected user requirements • technical skill set
relationship issues • other development teams • academic staff • ‘pressure points’ • conflicting priorities • project staff and vendors • project staff and academics / students
common language • technologists, educationalists and librarians • different departments in the same university • across project board • lack of technical resources
Evaluation activities • are there any? • questionnaires, interviews, focus groups • user group meetings and activities • scenario building and testing • development of demonstrators
Accessibility • good awareness of standards; W3C and WAI, JAWS etc • access for off campus students • non-standards compliant vendor products
Dissemination • project websites • internal promotion – group meetings, briefings, demonstrations, newsletters, presentations • to the community – workshops and seminars, conference papers and presentations, publications
Outputs and deliverables • prototype metadata schemas • prototype toolkits • reports, manuals and exemplars • user needs analyses
Collaborations • contact with similar projects elsewhere • interest following conference presentations • cross DiVLE project collaboration • HERON, VLE vendors, learning content providers, LOM IMS and OAI communities, COLIS, NHS library services
Future development • more adjustments to detail than changes in direction • creating accessible documentation and exemplars • stimulating demands for standardisation
delivering tools for students as well as academics • evaluating needs of distant learners
Programme activities • inter-project workshops • email list + bulletin board? • repository of standard documentation templates, technical tools, examples of metadata elements • JISC support beyond the end date • clarification of ‘fit’ between DiVLE activities and JISC strategies