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Slides prepared by Ananda Gunawardena (“guna”), Computer Science, and David Kaufer, English, at Carnegie Mellon University Classroom Salon is an online social learning platform that creates a community of learners engaged in deep discussion of course content.TRANSCRIPT
Ananda Gunawardena (“guna”)Computer Science
&David Kaufer
English
Carnegie Mellon University
What we bring to the project
A human-centric view
A machine-centric view
Salon vision
To extract and organize knowledge around small groups
What Salon is A platform that supports social learning
A content-centric platform that allows deep discussion of all content related to the course
A discovery platform that allows users to find other “interesting” users
A platform that allows teachers to get to know their students better
A platform that allows students to get to know each other
A platform that protects privacy of students
What Salon is not
It is not a course management system
It is not an ebook platform
It is not just another highlighting tool
It is not a document management system
We think most educational technology systems are designed
from a system centric view
Do not support teacher thinking or workflow
Salon is designed with a user-centric view
Salon handles most course related tasks better
Teacher ask students to read and prepare for class No other platform supports reading like Salon does
Salon tracks and records student activities
Social nature of the platform encourages active participation
How do you track reading with other platforms/processes?
Course management systems?
Learning management systems?
Reading groups?
Polling/surveys?
Track Reading
Teacher ask students to complete homework Salon enables small group homework completion
Individually
As a group
How do other systems manage this process?
Submitting completed homework online or on paper
Complete homework
Students have a lot of questions about the assignment Salon enables immediate clarification on the context
How do other systems handle this? Discussion boards
attachments
Help sessions
Clarify Assignments
There are no good ways to measure student’s prior knowledge Salon enables prior knowledge detection activities
How do other systems handle this? Pre course surveys
Polling
1-1 meetings
Measure Prior Knowledge
Tracking the activities of students Dash board is a way to track activities of each/all student(s)
Salon is Social
People I am interested in
Current activities of those I am interested in
These people are interested in me
I manage my Salons
How to create this social connection?
Click on anyone’s picture and find their interests
Salon Teacher Tools
Monitoring Class Activities
Monitoring Individual Students
Thomas Manzini
Performance in each unit
How time spent
annotations
Commenting on others
responses
discussions
Salons Created: 2Documents uploaded: 6Annotations Made: 56Responses Provided: 40Commenting on others: 42Open Discussions: 38
Filter
Salon is research based
Tone matching dictionariesExpert humanistUsability
Semantic similarity algorithmsAdaptive Book technologiesScalability and performance
Alex CheekInteraction designInformation design
Joanna WolfeReading and Annotations
How learning works
Eberly Center for Learning Carnegie Mellon University
Salon Technology
Salon Technology and Statistics Flexible and Scalable platform
asp.net, C#, Flex
Transition into Cloud Virtual Salon server
php, html5, js
Mobile Salon Android Tablet/phone Support ipad/iphone in the works (target date: January 2012)
Statistics Current users: 8000+ Documents uploaded : ~ 5637 Salons created: ~ 670 Separate Salon server Deployments: Grover City College
http://classroomsalon.gcc.edu
Funding and company Status Funded by
National Science Foundation Gates Foundation CMU
Spin-off Status Seed Funding by
innovation works Heinz Endowment
Business Relation Discussions Mc-Graw Hill HP Intel Capital Yahoo!
Thank you