Hi all--
This would be especially important--and timely--for persons with
disabilities. Accessible presentation of mathematical content remains a
challenge and is a hot topic in the disability community.
Mike
Daphne Ogle wrote:
This is a really good idea Herb! Perhaps you could send a message to
Allison, Erin and I to remind us which CIs you participated in (the
only reason I ask for this off list is because of privacy issues -- we
don't want to reveal participants real names outside the research the
team). We have the raw notes for all the CIs and can dig into the
details. We could also chat about it sometime this week if you think
that would be helpful.
Thanks,
Daphne
On Sep 19, 2008, at 2:21 PM, Herb Wideman wrote:
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
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