Below is the rest of the info for the Friday meetings. We will spend the majority of the meeting on OLS, our MIT/OCW partnership. The Quicktime stream will be available at rtsp://barboursville.ed.usu.edu/oslo.sdp starting around 9:00am MST. I will be logged into iChat as educommons@mac.com and into MSN as educommons@hotmail.com to facilitate question asking by folks at a distance. If you need some other chat client, please let me know ASAP! Agenda below.
Here’s the agenda for our Friday gathering:
Agenda Min / Topic 05 / Brief introductions 05 / Purpose of the meeting 05 / Introduction of OLS and its mission 10 / Brief tour of OCW website 05 / Selection criteria OCW courses for OLS pilot study 30 / Integration of OCW and OLS 60 / How to create and grow a learning community 15 / Research OSLO group should review (journals, individuals, projects, books, etc.) 30 / Open discussion 60 / Lunch 60 / Feature list for pilot study and beyond 30 / Expected challenges (how to identify and resolve) 30 / OLS research design (methodologies, open questions from the field, etc.) 30 / Off-topic questions from previous discussions 30 / Open discussion
And here is the draft feature set for the OLS pilot (due online in mid-March):
Pilot Study OLS Feature Set
Front Page – Similar to OCW –++ Purpose –++ News –++ Features/Help Forum / Discussion Board – Links between OCW and OLS will correspond by depth – Bread crumb navigation (similar to OCW) – Search Registration – Required for posting – Not required for reading Feedback – Proactive: Suggestion box and discussion within forum – Reactive: Polls/Surveys Useage Statistics Presented in a social framework Leading to eventual social proximity display with corresponding chat function News/Notification – Choices: e-mail, RSS feed, news on site front page Direct/Overt Linking of Questions and Answers in Forum – Identification of satisfactory answer is determined by question asker