Great work on these personas! The level of detail on instructors’ pedagogical approaches and everyone’s day-to-day operational strategies is very thick and should be of great value in both designing and testing UI components. I wonder whether some consideration should be given to adding or altering a primary or secondary persona to include one that makes heavy use of mathematics and math-based modeling in their work – none of the personas appear to do so at this point. In the contextual inquiries I participated in at York the issues of presenting mathematical representations for formulae and math-driven visual/graphical models, and providing appropriate online tools for creating and editing these, were seen as problematic. As mathematical formulations and math-based modeling are so prevalent in the hard sciences and engineering this may need to be brought to the fore in one primary or secondary persona. With respect to prioritizing LMS user needs, it's worth noting that there are far more students and faculty in these areas than in say foreign language departments.
Herb Wideman Senior Researcher Institute for Research on Learning Technologies York University _______________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list [email protected] http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
