Crowdsourcing: How to Make Students Part of the Mobile Solution
- 1. #KUROGO2016 KUROGO HIGHER ED MOBILE CONFERENCE 2016 Crowdsourcing Talk Matt Willmore, Notre Dame
- 2. KUROGO HIGHER ED MOBILE CONFERENCE 2016 2#KUROGO20 16 Crowdsourcing Your Content • Think of both technical and non-technical ways members of the campus community can contribute • Think in terms of ownership – We want the entire community to feel like it’s their app, not just an app for where they work/learn • If they own it, they will use it and provide lots of feedback
- 3. KUROGO HIGHER ED MOBILE CONFERENCE 2016 3#KUROGO20 16 Technical – Code for Kurogo • Use a responsive web app approach with CSS theming • How will student code be maintained? • Identify low-risk, high-reward opportunities • Give them autonomy to create – let them do it your way, their way • ND examples: Weather, Webcams, Transit, O’SNAP
- 4. KUROGO HIGHER ED MOBILE CONFERENCE 2016 4#KUROGO20 16 Non-Technical – Publisher • Amazing platform for the non-techie to contribute and immediately see the results of their labor – My recipe: show a couple demo sites, 30 minute walkthrough on building with Publisher, and hand them the keys – I require them to watch Eric’s “Publisher Power” talk from the 2015 Conference • Departments have ownership in the app and will be eager to promote it for you • Great student employee work (create icons, clean up text, find good pictures, etc.) • ND examples: Every. Publisher. Module.
- 5. KUROGO HIGHER ED MOBILE CONFERENCE 2016 5#KUROGO20 16 Non-Technical – QA • Great student opportunity to improve the app and give them a concrete skill • How well does the app work? (aka, Can people use it?) • Have your users try it and get others to try it • Find users unfamiliar with the app and present questions – What’s for lunch today? – How late is the co-rec open? – When’s the latest I can apply for early decision? – Where’s the nearest place to study? – (Bonus points for questions answered in a different persona) • Repeat after me: That the app works well for me doesn’t matter at all. It only matters if it works for the users.
- 6. KUROGO HIGHER ED MOBILE CONFERENCE 2016 6#KUROGO20 16 Non-Technical – Analytics • Find a student who loves digging through numbers and stats, and start asking questions – What pages are people spending the most time on? – Which pages aren’t as popular as they were? – Which pages are at the bottom of the list, but the most clicked? – On an average day, how does a student use the app? – Does the arrangement of icons match the popularity of the modules?
- 7. KUROGO HIGHER ED MOBILE CONFERENCE 2016 7#KUROGO20 16 Non-Technical – Make It an Event
- 8. KUROGO HIGHER ED MOBILE CONFERENCE 2016 8#KUROGO20 16 Non-Technical – VisitND Challenge • Came out of a request from the EVP’s office to engage students and improve the guest experience “You know what Notre Dame should do…you should have a student tour contest.”
- 9. KUROGO HIGHER ED MOBILE CONFERENCE 2016 9#KUROGO20 16 Non-Technical – VisitND Challenge • Partnered with EVP, SAP (vendor) and Modo Labs -- $4,500 in prizes lined up • Built student interest with a ladder of engagement 1. Get people excited 2. Get their email 3. Get them to submit a 1-page entry • 64 teams (!) entered in 3 weeks; judging committee picked the top 10
- 10. KUROGO HIGHER ED MOBILE CONFERENCE 2016 10#KUROGO20 16 Non-Technical – VisitND Challenge • Held mandatory 1-hour meetings (over dinner with pizza) to hand out credentials and walk them through Publisher, adding videos, where to check out cameras, how to use ND photo collections, etc. • Teams had 30 days to build their tour • Judging committee chose the top six, which went into the ND Mobile app • Collected public feedback and committee ranked the top 6
- 11. KUROGO HIGHER ED MOBILE CONFERENCE 2016 11#KUROGO20 16 Non-Technical – VisitND Challenge
- 12. KUROGO HIGHER ED MOBILE CONFERENCE 2016 12#KUROGO20 16 Non-Technical – VisitND Challenge
- 13. KUROGO HIGHER ED MOBILE CONFERENCE 2016 13#KUROGO20 16 Crowdsourcing Your Content • Think about how the campus community can be involved in the app building process • Find opportunities to solve “information pain points” on campus with your app • Liberally borrow other schools’ (and apps’) ideas
- 14. KUROGO HIGHER ED MOBILE CONFERENCE 2016 14#KUROGO20 161 California State University, Northridge
- 15. KUROGO HIGHER ED MOBILE CONFERENCE 2016 15#KUROGO20 161 Story of AppJam • Desire for instructional apps on campus • App development too expensive to outsource • Valuable skill for students to learn • Potential jobs await!
- 16. KUROGO HIGHER ED MOBILE CONFERENCE 2016 16#KUROGO20 16 AppJam 1
- 17. KUROGO HIGHER ED MOBILE CONFERENCE 2016 17#KUROGO20 16 APPJAM 2015 • Team Challenge - 3+, Cross-disciplinary • Two categories - Student Life, Student Finances • Open to All Students • Milestones - 3 • Showcase Event 1
- 18. KUROGO HIGHER ED MOBILE CONFERENCE 2016 #KUROGO20 16 AppJam Showcase
- 19. KUROGO HIGHER ED MOBILE CONFERENCE 2016 19#KUROGO20 16 Sample App Projects • Book reselling • Carpooling • Campus Restaurant Rewards Cards • Tutor Finding App • Social Networking 1
- 20. KUROGO HIGHER ED MOBILE CONFERENCE 2016 20#KUROGO20 16 Ole 2
- 21. KUROGO HIGHER ED MOBILE CONFERENCE 2016 21#KUROGO20 16 Ole 2
- 22. KUROGO HIGHER ED MOBILE CONFERENCE 2016 22#KUROGO20 16 App Development Team 2 Varied Roles
- 23. KUROGO HIGHER ED MOBILE CONFERENCE 2016 23#KUROGO20 16 Curriculum Apps 2
- 24. KUROGO HIGHER ED MOBILE CONFERENCE 2016 24#KUROGO20 16 Tree of Life 2 Phylogenetic Trees
- 25. KUROGO HIGHER ED MOBILE CONFERENCE 2016 25#KUROGO20 16 Curriculum App 2 Mendelian Genetics
- 26. KUROGO HIGHER ED MOBILE CONFERENCE 2016 26#KUROGO20 16 Nematode Classification 2
- 27. KUROGO HIGHER ED MOBILE CONFERENCE 2016 27#KUROGO20 16 AppJam 2016 • One main category • Incubation • Popular vote • ePortfolio submissions 2
- 28. KUROGO HIGHER ED MOBILE CONFERENCE 2016 28#KUROGO20 16 Popular Vote! 2
- 29. KUROGO HIGHER ED MOBILE CONFERENCE 2016 29#KUROGO20 16 Crowdsourcing - 4 forms: • Scaling app development by surfacing talent from: • Faculty • Students • The Campus • The Voting Public 2
Editor's Notes
- #26: Upper-division biology majors Teaches advanced concepts in Mendelian genetics Quizzes, problem solving, and final tests App Store Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/elite-gene-team/id1046974841
- #27: Nematode Classification Helps students learn about worms that live inside beetle hosts and how to identify them We expect to get better and faster at making faculty apps because the underlying structure can be re-used