Seat eXchanger: The Mobile, Open Source, Web App that Facilitates Flexible Multi-Access Class Participation
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The document discusses the Seat Exchanger, a mobile open-source web app designed to facilitate multi-access class participation in education, allowing students flexibility in choosing their learning modalities. It outlines the project's features, development roadmap, and invites contributions from users familiar with multi-access pedagogy. The project aims to address issues related to accommodating students in courses with limited physical and online seats and indicates future integration with platforms like Moodle.
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Seat eXchanger: The Mobile, Open Source, Web App that Facilitates Flexible Multi-Access Class Participation
- 1. Seat eXchanger: The Mobile, Open Source, Web App that Facilitates Flexible Multi-Access Class Participation Rich McCue - University of Victoria, Valerie Irvine - University of Victoria & Ryan McCue - Camosun College The 9th Collaboration for Online Higher Education & Research (COHERE) Conference October 2015, Victoria & Halifax, Canada
- 2. Overview • Introduction to Multi-Access & Seat eXchanger. • Demo. • Technology Used & Project Road Map. • Questions & Discussion.
- 3. What is Multi-Access? Multi-Access Learning enables "student choice and agency" by allowing learners to participate in a class where and when it is convenient or most conducive to their learning (Irvine, Code, & Richards, 2013). Face-to-Face -or- Video Conference -or- Recorded Lecture OR...
- 4. A significant problem facing Multi-Access courses A significant problem facing Multi-Access courses with a limited number of face-to-face and online seats [NEXT], is accommodating students who want or need to move between modalities... Accommodating Student Needs with a limited number of physical & online seats
- 5. Administrative Burden Extra Room Space or Video Conference Seats
- 6. ● We couldn’t find anything else available that easily fills this gap.
- 7. The inspiration and guidance for this Open Source project comes from: Dr. Valerie Irvine and her TIE Lab. The project manager is Rich McCue, and Lead developer is Ryan McCue. Seat eXchanger Project
- 8. ● During this session, we will briefly demonstrate typical use cases for the software from the student and instructor (or admin) perspectives, and ● then engage in a discussion about future functionality, features, and opportunities to contribute to the project.
- 9. The project is at a very early stage of development, and we are looking for and people and organizations using the multi-access pedagogy who interested in helping out. ● suggest features ● documentation ● translation for multiple languages. ● coding
- 10. Seat eXchanger Demonstration Site Under Construction
- 12. Teacher Perspective: Create an account
- 13. Teacher Perspective: Create a Class ● Click on “Create a Class” button.
- 14. Teacher Perspective: Fill Out Create Class Form
- 15. Teacher Perspective: Fill Out 1st Access Mode
- 16. Teacher Perspective: Add Additional Modalities ● Click on “Add additional Access Mode” to add additional modalities available for the class. ● Done!
- 17. Teacher Perspective: Add Additional Week Day ● Click on “Add additional weekly Lecture Day” to add another weekly lecture day and time (e.g. “MWF” or “MTh”). ● Done!
- 18. Teacher Perspective: Create Class! ● “Create Class” when the class modalities and lecture days have been added to the form. ● Done!
- 20. Student Perspective: Invite & Registration Student receives an email. Click on link that takes them to a registration page to add a password to their account… they are then automatically logged in.
- 21. Student Perspective: Default Modality Their default modality is assigned by the teacher based on their “campus” registration. For example an out of town student’s default modality would probably be “videoconference” or “VC Robot.”
- 22. Student Perspective: Changing Modality ● Student goes to Seat eXchanger web app and select the class that they want to change modes.
- 23. Student Perspective: Select Class to Change ● Then click on date on which they’d like to switch modes.
- 24. Student Perspective: Confirm Change ● View Course to confirm that the modality change has been made. ● Done!
- 25. Project Roadmap & Tech
- 26. Seat eXchanger -> Open Source Code released under an Open Source license to allow others to contribute code and documentation back to the project. Lesser GPL to facilitate use with closed source software down the road. Will be on GitHub
- 27. Seat eXchanger -> Use with Other Platforms? Integration with Moodle for authentication and seamless access for students. Will look at potentially using Google, Facebook and other authentication mechanisms.
- 28. Road Map Highlights Release 0.1 - 2015-09-01 - Released Release 0.2 - 2015-10-28 ● Create/edit users ● Create/edit class ● Class layout like airplane ● Add other modalities - not just F2F and online Release 0.3 - 2015-11-28 ● Change/add class admin ● Wait list or request a seat option if none currently available in desired modality. ● Sign in with Facebook & maybe with Google & Twitter. ● Set up community website for the project. ● Release as Open Source license with LGPL license. Release 0.4 - ??? ● Timezones ● Edit class schedule ● Send email notifications for “Request a seat” Release 0.5 - ??? ● Moodle integration, including authentication
- 29. Technology Tech: LAMP, Laravel PHP framework, Mailgun.org.
- 30. Thank-you & Questions? Project Website: http://seatexchanger.org/ Research available at: http://richmccue.com/presentations/ This presentation: http://slideshare.net/richmccue Contact: rich@msys.ca ryan@msys.ca @richmccue on twitter @_valeriei on twitter Photo credit: Got Credit
- 31. Special Thanks to the Creators of the Creative Commons Images used in this presentation: http://www.deviantart.com/art/The-Chair-Project-312353585 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bishwa_Iztema_2013_Phase_II_on_train_01_by_Mayeenul_Islam.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Daily_Burden,_Ethiopia_(9927966264).jpg http://www.flickriver.com/photos/tags/paysanne/interesting/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prise_en_main_d%27un_Nexus_S.JPG https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Ashs-teacher-and-students.jpg http://www.public-domain-image.com/free-images/people/crowd/african-american-female-talking-with-meeting-participants http://www.geograph.ie/photo/2804138 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baby_Roger_3D.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Under-construction5.gif https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecture_hall https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Mike%27s_students_at_First_Year_Seminar.jpg http://creativecommons.org/tag/school-of-open https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:License_icon-lgpl-88x31.svg https://www.flickr.com/photos/appleboy/13158675193 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moodle-logo-large.jpg
Editor's Notes
- #2: … I’m going talking about a project we’ve been working on for several months now, called “Seat eXchanger” Rich McCue, Sys admin at the UVic libraries and MA candidate focusing on EdTech & Pedagogy. Ryan McCue is a programmer currently studying at Camosun College. Valerie Irvine is a Professor and Researcher at UVic, Co-director of the TIE lab, and leader in Multi-Access research.
- #3: Overview: Introduction to Multi-Access & Seat eXchanger. Demonstration. Technology Used & Project Road Map. Questions & Discussion.
- #4: What is Multi-Access? Multi-Access Learning enables "student choice and agency" by allowing learners to participate in a class where and when it is convenient or most conducive to their learning. That could be attending a class face-to-face, or via video conference, or watching a recorded lecture, or even via video conference robot for example. A typical use case
- #5: What problem is Seat eXchanger trying to address? A significant problem facing Multi-Access courses with a limited number of face-to-face and online seats, [NEXT] is accommodating students who want or need to move between modalities...
- #6: ...without imposing an onerous administrative burden on instructors, or [NEXT] spending money unnecessarily on extra room-space or video-conference seats. Those video conference seats can be quite pricy.
- #7: We looked, but couldn’t find a cross platform, mobile application that easily and economically fills this gap… so the Seat eXchanger project was born...
- #8: The inspiration and guidance for this Open Source project comes from: Dr. Valerie Irvine whose early work with multi-access made her painfully aware of this problem.. The project manager me, Rich McCue, and Lead developer is Ryan McCue.
- #9: During this session, we will briefly demonstrate typical use cases for the software from the [NEXT] student and instructor (or admin) perspectives, and then engage in a [NEXT] discussion about future functionality, features, and opportunities to contribute to the project.
- #10: Please remember that the project is at a [NEXT] very early stage of development, and we are looking for and people and organizations using the multi-access pedagogy who interested in helping out [NEXT] with things like: suggest features documentation translation for multiple languages. coding
- #11: So let’s move on to the demonstration. Please remember that the Website [NEXT] is Under Active Construction.
- #12: We’ll start with the Teacher perspective.
- #13: Create an account.
- #14: Click on “Create a Class” button.
- #15: Fill form w/ class name, section, start & end dates, mode, max students for mode & Student email addresses.
- #16: Fill out 1st access mode.
- #17: Click on “Add additional Access Mode” to add additional modalities available for the class.
- #18: Click on “Add additional weekly Lecture Day” to add another weekly lecture day and time (e.g. “MWF” or “MTh”).
- #19: “Create Class” when the class modalities and lecture days have been added to the form. -> Done!
- #21: Student receives an email. Click on link that takes them to a registration page to add a password to their account… they are then automatically logged in.
- #22: Their default modality is assigned by the teacher based on their “campus” registration. For example an out of town student’s default modality would probably be “videoconference” or “VC Robot.”
- #23: Student goes to Seat eXchanger web app and select the class that they want to change modes.
- #24: Then click on date on which they’d like to switch modes Use Kamloops example...
- #25: View Course to confirm that the modality change has been made. Done!
- #26: Project Roadmap and Technology...
- #27: Code released under an Open Source license probably the to allow others to contribute code and documentation back to the project. [NEXT] We will probably Lesser GPL to facilitate its potential use with closed source software down the road. [NEXT] We are planning on hosting the project on GitHub to facilitate collaboration and code contributions. Domain Name?
- #28: Integration with Moodle for authentication and seamless access for students is on the roadmap. We will look at potentially using Google, Facebook and other authentication mechanisms as options that are supported.
- #29: Release 0.1 - 2015-09-01 - Released Release 0.2 - 2015-10-28 Create/edit users Create/edit class Class layout like airplane Add other modalities - not just F2F and online Release 0.3 - 2015-11-28 Change/add class admin Wait list or request a seat option if none currently available in desired modality. Sign in with Facebook & maybe with Google & Twitter. Set up community website for the project. Release as Open Source license with LGPL license. Release 0.4 - ??? Timezones Edit class schedule Send email notifications for “Request a seat” Release 0.5 - ??? Moodle integration, including authentication
- #30: Tech: [NEXT] LAMP, [NEXT] Laravel PHP framework, [NEXT] Mailgun.org.