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Unbundling Courseware to Enhance Innovation with Catalyst

Unbundling Courseware to Enhance Innovation with Catalyst. Tom Lewis Director, Catalyst Research & Development Office of Learning & Scholarly Technology University of Washington. What is courseware?. Communication Collaboration Authoring Aggregation Evaluation Course aware environment.

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Unbundling Courseware to Enhance Innovation with Catalyst

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  1. Unbundling Courseware to Enhance Innovation with Catalyst Tom Lewis Director, Catalyst Research & Development Office of Learning & Scholarly Technology University of Washington

  2. What is courseware? • Communication • Collaboration • Authoring • Aggregation • Evaluation • Course aware environment

  3. What is Catalyst? • Communication • Collaboration • Authoring • Aggregation • Evaluation • Course aware environment Unbundled!

  4. Catalyst Web Tools Portfolio WebFiles UMail WebQ Collect-It Peer Review SimpleSite ShareSpaces GoPost GroupManager QuickPoll

  5. What Works • Modular and flexible. • Course aware. • Features originate with the needs of campus community. • Pedagogy and research needs are central. • Used for teaching, research, staff work groups, advising, community activities, and by students for their own purposes. • Open architecture allow Web services and “hacks”

  6. Usage Snapshot • 13,368 active owners • 49,108 active UW NetID users • ~14,500 individual sessions per day • 86,786 active implementations • 29,307 WebQ surveys and quizzes • 8304 human subjects research surveys • 5291 WebQ owners

  7. Usage Snapshot • 14,442 faculty/staff Web sites • 13,445 student Web sites • 66,642 Portfolios • 1,862 QuickPolls • 1,570,422 responses • 38,513 Groups • 23,380 Class Lists

  8. Our Development Process • The development cycle engages a community of users - faculty, students, and staff - in all stages of the process. • Requirements and specifications are developed based upon evidence from user research. • End-product usability is the primary concern and is shaped by informal and formal usability studies.

  9. Tom, What’s Your Point? • Think about using blended and unbundled rather than one-size-fits-all and monolithic technologies. • Good communication and collaboration tools should not be confined to the course context only. • A user-driven process (build, buy, or implement) leads to tools they can (and want) to use.

  10. http://solstice.eplt.washington.edu/

  11. Where to Find Me/Us My email address: tomlewis@u.washington.edu Catalyst Web Tools and Web site: http://catalyst.washington.edu/ Solstice Project: http://solstice.eplt.washington.edu/

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