time to flourish

Time to Flourish

• Proliferation of personal / academic tutoring schemes

• Difficulties managing research students• Increase in performance management• Executive coaching

Why to Flourish?

• Personal space

• Private• User-owned• User

controlled

• Shared space (one-to-few)

• Shared privacy

• Co-ownership

• Co-control (ish)

• Organisational space

• Privacy by trust

• Owned by org• Tutor-

controlled

Flourish: the space in the middle!

Pebble+ Flourish ATLAS

Spend 5 minutes talking in half-tables about the kinds of things you would expect to see in a system like Flourish…

…based on the scant information you have so far!

How to Flourish?

Now, write down some user goals:

As a user I would like to…As a guide I would like to…As an administrator I would like to…

How to Flourish?

Provide tools to support learners and their guided learning, for example: students and their tutors researchers and their supervisors performers and their coaches

Learners will be able to: See all their grades and feedback in one place Maintain a continual dialogue with their 'guides' View all upcoming tasks and milestones Gain insight into how they're performing relative to others

Guides will be able to: See everything their allocated learners can see in Flourish Group learners into sets Allocate tasks and milestones Report on progress Communicate easily with individuals and groups

Flourish will:

What’s it look like?…what’s next isn’t necessarily the answer – but it will give you a good clue as to the direction of travel

Design your own feature

Take an idea from today and describe it as a tool or feature.• What is it called?• Who will use it?• What benefit will it bring them?

• What does it rely on in order to work?• What else do we need to know about it?

Flourish will be available on request as a Beta release in September 2014