Fruity

Lars Kools

Fang Liang

KarlienPostelmans

Gertjan ScholtenChristiaan Westgeest

Discussion

Brief overview of main topics:

• Which functionalities do we take into account?

• A framework for those functionalities

• Who are we going to interview? (And what do we specifically want to know?)

• The exact problem we want to investigate. What new features do we want? Are we going to consider the existing restrictions? And so, which ones?

• What kind of literature do we want to use?

• Structure and contents of our report.

• Background of Blackboard.

• Deliverables

Discussion(continued)

• Starting from scratch preferableNot going to happen in near future

• Starting point current Blackboard/version 9.1

• In primary goal no restrictions ((legacy) systems) taken into account. (Later)

• Focus on improving features to expand and innovate current possibilities

• Focus on knowledge network

“Blackboard 11”

Inte

rvie

ws

We try to arrange 6 or 7 interviews.

Interview in first week with Vincent Kalis (Functional Manager IT-department)

→ He will keep us up to date about the current developments.

Interviews:

• Opinion on the current Blackboard(Criticism, missing features)

• Support of education, group work and research

• Interaction and collaboration tools

• Role of stakeholders

• Addition of communities, personal profiles, social media and twitter-like features to a future portal version.

Literary Support

Christiaan

Fang

Gertjan

Karlien

Lars

Interaction among studentsSeparation between personal interests and study

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Social Computing√

Interaction & group work√

Interaction between students and teachers√

Any additional literature (not covered in the 4 categories)

Coordinator of literature research

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This week

• We will attend to the scheduled interviews. (At least 3 persons per interview.)

• We will discuss and analyze those interviews afterwards.What are the core points of each interview?Which answers are useful for our project?

• Look for supporting literature.

• More discussion(Including final deliverables)

• We will further explore existing and new functionalities for the portal.

Aft

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isw

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• Some more interviews

• Finalizing theoretic model

• Functional design

• GUI of conceptual model

• Try to arrange a meeting at the Blackboard headquarter

• Writing on the accompanying report

Finally

New topic opened on Facebook SIM forum:

Think (from an IM point of view) about the use of Blackboard, about your own use of Facebook, Hyves, Twitter, etc.

Which features would you like to use and which not?

(Not necessarily existing features.)

We are interested in your suggestions!

Please let us know.