Summary Schedule

Detailed Schedule

Module 1: Design

Week 1: Introductions (Thursday Oct 27)

Due: Precedents Assignment

• Introduction to the course and structure (15 minutes):
• Reviewing the brief, overview of goals and expectations (30 minutes)
• Review of Precedent Assignment (1 hour)
• Group Discussion (30 minutes): Module 1 assignments discussion; forming groups
• In Class Exercise: Team Breakout and Brainstorming

Assignments: Rapid Design Research

• Auto-Ethnography: document your experiences and pain points collaborating/working over distance
• Complete design research to include: user research and interviews, precedent identifications, and material/object inventories.
• Develop synthesis presentation

Week 2: Design Research (Thursday Nov 3)

• Guest lecture (1 hour): Stakeholder Needs for Distance Learning (TBC)
• Student Presentations (30 minutes): Lightning reports on Synthesis of Findings
• Desk Crits (30 mins per group): Reviewing Research and Discussing Directions

Assignments

• Brainstorm and propose a 3-5 of potential technology interventions that could be used to solve pain points.
• Prepare a detailed proposal for one technology led intervention
• Complete any additional design research and compile findings and recommendations for end of module report

Module 2: Develop

Week 3: Proposals (Thursday Nov 10)

• Guest lecture (1 hour): Tools and Technologies for Distance Learning (TBC)
• Student Presentations (1.5 hour) Review of Design Research and Proposals
• Group Discussion (30 mins): Module 2 Assignment - Developing Prototypes

Assignments:

• Implement a rapid prototype of proposed intervention by the next class.

Week 4: Prototypes (Thursday Nov 17)

• Guest lecture (1 hour): Tools and Technologies for Distance Learning (TBC)
• Student Presentations (15 minutes): Lightning report outs on prototypes + demo of prototype ( < 5 mins per team)
• Desk Crits (30 mins per team): Review of Prototype implementation

Assignments:

• Refine prototype

Week 5: No Class (Thursday Nov 24)

Thanksgiving Break

Assignments:

• Continue work on prototype
• Submit Documentation of the technical implementation

Module 3: Deployment

Week 6: Evaluation (Thursday Dec 1)

• Guest lecture (1 hour): Evaluating educational technology in context; TBC (1 hour)
• Student Presentations (1 hour): Live demo of prototypes/interventions presented by student teams (15 mins per group)
• Group Discussion (1 hour): Developing an Evaluation Strategy for the prototypes - How to test success?

Assignments:

• Design and develop a lightweight strategy for assessing the prototype in a learning context
• Deploy it with users in a learning environment and document the outcomes.
• Prepare a draft of the final report

Week 7: Report (Thursday Dec 8)

• Student Presentations (1 hour): Report out on user experience / evaluation outcomes.
• Desk Crits (25 mins per group) - Reviewing each teams draft report
• Group discussion (30 mins) - Wrap / next steps

Assignments:

• Prepare final documentation and revise report
• Prepare oral presentation and demonstration for final review.

Final Review (Monday Dec 12)

Students will prepare a digital presentation and showcase outcomes from the course for invited guests. Each group will be given 15 minutes to present their work (including a technical demonstration of prototypes) with 15 minutes for a response from invited critics.

TBC - Provisional Schedule as follows:

• 4:30-6:30pm ET – 4612 Forbes Avenue
• 1:30-3:30pm PT – TBD Silicon Valley Classroom

Final documentation and deliverables will be due on Thursday December 15th Friday December 16th (midnight) and the report should respond to feedback from guest critics.

Note: This schedule (and the modules described) may be subject to change at any time.