Mobile WEB App AND EVALUATION
Place.
Designed and developed a prototype for
Client
Nottingham College
Partners
JISC
University of Nottingham
The Brief.
Nottingham College is a large further education college with campuses throughout Nottinghamshire. As part of a larger initiative exploring new technologies in teaching and learning supported by JISC.
We were approached by the staff at the Second Language Learning department to work with the staff and students in designing and developing a prototype that could be used to enhance student use of English outside the classroom.
Learning through our
Physical Environment
What
we did.
01.
Design
Worked with teachers at Nottingham College
02.
Development
Agile rapid prototyping approach allowing for quick iterations informed by results of ‘in field’ evaluations.
03.
Evaluation
With the help of our partners we deployed the technology in a further education college in central Nottingham for real world user testing.
04.
Report
Held a number of practice led workshops supported by JISC to teachers interested in new innovations in teaching.
Design. Develop. Evaluate.
Iterate
Real World User Evaluation
Held at Nottingham College
THE
OUTCOMES.
At the heart of this project was a commitment to releasing an open technology that could be used by students and teachers in further education colleges throughout the UK. As such we published three open source technologies.
Native Android App
For students. A native Android application for learners of English as a second language. Freely downloadable from the Google Play Store.
WEB BASED ADMIN APP
For Teachers. A web based interface to allow teachers to design and deploy their own language learning activities to engage their students outside the classroom.
OPEN API
For Develepors. A web based interface to allow teachers to design and deploy their own language learning activities to engage their students outside the classroom.
