Findings from the Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives

This white paper describes findings from the workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives organized in February 2016 by Christina Wasson (University of North Texas) and Gary Holton (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa). It reviews relevant aspects of language archiving and user-centered design to construct the rationale for the workshop, relates key insights produced during the workshop, and outlines next steps in the larger research trajectory initiated by this workshop. The purpose of this white paper is to make all of the findings from the workshop publicly available in a short time frame, and without the constraints of a journal article concerning length, audience, format, and so forth. Selections from this white paper will be used in subsequent journal articles. So much was learned during the workshop; we wanted to provide a thorough documentation to ensure that none of the key insights would be lost. We consider this document a white paper because it provides the foundational insights and initial conceptual frameworks that will guide us in our further research on the user-centered design of language archives. We hope this report will be useful to members of all stakeholder groups seeking to develop user-centered designs for language archives.U.S. National Science Foundation Documenting Endangered Languages Program grants BCS-1543763 and BCS-1543828

Use Cases for Design Personas : A Systematic Review and New Frontiers

Personas represent the needs of users in diverse populations and impact design by endearing empathy and improving communication. While personas have been lauded for their benefits, we could locate no prior review of persona use cases in design, prompting the question: how are personas actually used to achieve these benefits? To address this question, we review 95 articles containing persona application across multiple domains, and identify software development, healthcare, and higher education as the top domains that employ personas. We then present a three-stage design hierarchy of persona usage to describe how personas are used in design tasks. Finally, we assess the increasing trend of persona initiatives aimed towards social good rather than solely commercial interests. Our findings establish a roadmap of best practices for how practitioners can innovatively employ personas to increase the value of designs and highlight avenues of using personas for socially impactful purposes.© 2022 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM. ACM ISBN 978-1-4503-9157-3/22/04. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3517589fi=vertaisarvioitu|en=peerReviewed

Effectiveness of Persona with Personality Traits on Conceptual Design

Conceptual design is an important skill in Software Engineering. Teaching conceptual design that can deliver a useful product is challenging, particularly when access to real users is limited. This study explores the effects of the use of Holistic Personas (i.e. a persona enriched with personality traits) on students' performance in creating conceptual designs. Our results indicate that the students were able to identify the personality traits of personas and their ratings of the personalities match closely with the intended personalities. A majority of the participants stated that their designs were tailored to meet the needs of the given personas' personality traits. Results suggest that the Holistic Personas can help students to take into account personality traits in the conceptual design process. Further studies are warranted to assess the value of incorporating Holistic Personas in conceptual design training for imparting skills of producing in-depth design by taking personalities into account.10 page(s

An Open Learner Model Dashboard for Adaptive Learning

The thesis describes the design process of the independent OLM dashboard, MittFagkart, that visualizes student activity data across digital math tools used in Norwegian classrooms for teachers.Masteroppgave i informasjonsvitenskapINFO390MASV-INF

A Partnership Approach to Library Services at CCT College Dublin

CCT College Dublin is a private higher education institution based in Dublin’s city centre. Since its foundation in 2005, the College has incorporated a strong commitment to library services in successive strategic plans to support a dynamic teaching and learning experience and the highest standards of scholarship and academic integrity institution wide. Library services are delivered in partnership with a range of departments across the College and are integrated into all stages of the student journey. The College Librarian is an associate of the CCT Centre for Teaching and Learning and a member of CCT’s Quality Enhancement and Academic Integrity Committees. Key catalysts of library development have been new programme development, the professionalisation of library staff, digital transformation, student partnership and sectoral engagement with the Library Association of Ireland and the International Federation of Library Associations. More recently the publication of an institutional research strategy has seen the development of research support platforms and services including the launch of an institutional repository using Digital Commons software. CCT College is active in a range of national and international library publishing groups. In 2022, CCT hosted a satellite event for the World Library Congress and spoke in the session organised by IFLA’s Library Publishing Special Interest Group. Pag

Design of Product-Service Systems for Finnish Early Childhood Education and Care

Over the last decades, the Finnish education system has often reached the top position in international rankings, backed-up by the results of well-established international evaluations such as PISA. Along with the good reputation, there has been a surge in educational tourism and an increased interest in bringing Finnish education into other countries. This thesis aims to provide a deeper insight on the composition of the Finnish Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) services and how their packaging, export, distribution, adaptation and execution can be improved with the help of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). This exploratory study follows an abductive approach, combining theoretical and empirical evidence t o determine qualitative and distinctive attributes of Finnish ECEC. It starts with an overview of the national education system, its welfare context, operational characteristics and pedagogical principles. It continues with the analysis of previous academic research related to the productization and export of Finnish education, distinguishing common characteristics and models applicable to the ECEC level. The background research finalizes with a detailed description of existing service theories and their evolution over time, leading into the field of Service Design (SD). This discipline and its key concepts are presented as a holistic and comprehensive approach to model complex product-service combinations, such as the ones found in Finnish ECEC. The second half of the thesis is the exploratory case study of a Finnish start-up that wants to sell an ECEC franchise. The author’s own observations while working inside the company are validated through SD workshops to determine the key process areas and stakeholders involved in the current business strategy. Based on the case study and the theoretical framework, the author proposes recommendations for the company and other practitioners, aiming to clarify their offerings and devise an efficient use of various technological solutions that facilitate the export of Finnish ECEC products and services

GENDER ATTRITION RATE DIFFERENCES AMONG ESTATE MANAGEMENT STUDENTS OF UNIVERSITIES WITHIN SOUTHWEST NIGERIA

Most sciences and science-related disciplines, popularly known as Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and professions are largely oriented towards the male student, staffs and employees. Females are under-represented at every level of activity both in the study and in the employment [1]. The purpose of the study is to examine the gender attrition rate differences among Estate Management students of Universities within South-West, Nigeria being one of the fields within the STEM range of discipline scope since it has a scientific focus. The enrolment and graduation list of the students was used to determine the attrition rate of Estate Management student by gender. This is for a period of five (5) years garnered from three universities in South-West Nigeria namely: Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, University of Lagos, Akoka and Covenant University, Ota. These Universities fall within the group of universities that have produced reasonable number of graduates over time, up to ten sets of graduates over the period 2007 and 2016. However, this study will only consider five sets due to constraints in assessing the needed data. The study applied quantitative data using descriptive statistics such as tables, percentages and mean. The findings are in correspondence with what obtains in literature [2] that female student’s attrition is higher in fields that are maledominated. Since Estate Management is male dominated (as seen from the figures), the attrition rate of females is more in the universities sampled. A useful recommendation for the study was provide

HUBLINKED: A Curriculum Mapping Framework for Industry

SMEs and Enterprise companies are looking for workplace-ready graduates that have already gained a relevant range of skills and knowledge as part of their studies. These include having specific proficiencies as well as a broad understanding of industry, including transferable skills such as self-awareness, critical thinking, teamwork, listening, time management, and leadership [1]. This demand entails a reciprocal relationship between industry and academia, which is one of many aspects that drives the need for solid collaborations between the two sectors [2]. When facing the recruitment process, however, SMEs and Enterprise companies often struggle to match their requirements to the learning outcomes of new graduates applying for positions. Companies are faced with an overwhelming array of degree programmes to engage with, most of which consist of multiple modules and options. Even within the same institute and school, students graduate with the same qualification, but have gone through vastly different pathways and gained a varied experience based on the optional modules they may have taken. Without enough academic knowledge and familiarity and no means to distinguish between these courses and the graduates, the recruitment process for companies must rely heavily on lengthy interview procedures to search for the right graduate with the right experience and transversal skills, a process that can be resource intensive in terms of time and financial cost. Given that learning trajectories across programmes and curricula are often not visible from an employer perspective some form of mapping of academic curriculum to industry graduate requirements would seem an essential step to help relieve employers, at least partially, from burdensome recruitment procedure [3]. The broad goal of the HubLinked Knowledge Alliance is to strengthen Europe’s software innovation capacity by learning from regions of proven Information Computing Technology (ICT) strength in Europe and Asia and sharing that knowledge with all regions. A key goal of the Alliance was to conduct research on the effectiveness of University-Industry (U-I) collaborations between Computer Science faculties and Companies (including non-ICT companies) as U-I collaborations are understood as a core driver of innovation capacity. In recognising that SMEs and Enterprise companies often struggle to match their graduate requirements to the learning outcomes of new graduates, two key challenges (presented here as fundamental questions) emerged: How can SME requirements for graduate recruitment be captured in a way that facilitates matching their requirements to academic programmes? How do you match university programmes from different institution to the industry requirement? In this paper we present a Curriculum Mapping Framework (CMF) and a Curriculum Mapping Tool (CMT) to address these issues. The CMF encodes the companies graduate attributes into a virtual curriculum after which the CMT maps the virtual curriculum onto specific educational pathway within an academic programme to determine the level of match between the two. The CMF and the CMT were both designed within the HubLinked Knowledge Alliance [4], a partnership of seven large industry-focused Computer Science Faculties and four Industry partners representing large multinationals, SMEs and start-up companies. Section two will explore the context that led to the development of the CMF and the CMT. In order to map learning outcomes across different programmes and courses, across different academic award levels and across different institutions, it is necessary to understand the general structure of a programme and how curricula are constructed. Our approach has been strongly inspired by the reports of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) [1] and Bloom’s Taxonomy [5] and by the assumption that multiple pathways are possible within each academic programme, meaning individuals undertaking the same programme gain varied skills depending on the optional modules for which they have opted. Section three describes in the development of the CMF which provides a mechanism for encoding industry requirements into a curriculum. Qualitative data was collected over a three-year period in the form of interviews with 40 Industry professionals and through organised focus groups with academic partners and stakeholders. Data collection was a central theme at each of the quarterly meetings hosted by each of the project partners who also facilitated the contribution of additional academic staff from outside of the project. Section four presents the CMT and demonstrates how the mapping process between ICT programmes and the Hublinked curriculum is achieved. The CMT is available on the HubLinked website for download[2]. Observations on the CMF and the CMT including recommendations on its future use are presented in the last sections of this paper. [1] https://www.acm.org [2] http://www.hublinked.eu/curriculum-mapping-tool

HUBLINKED: A Curriculum Mapping Framework for Industry

A key aim of HubLinked is to improve the effectiveness of University-Industry linkages between CS faculties and ICT companies. One of the problems identified as core to the Project was to match Learning Outcomes from different curricula with the requirements dictated by the ICT industry with the final aim to enhance students Graduate Skills and employability. Based on agreed core U-I linkage attributes, lower-level curriculum L0s have been designed and reviewed by industry partners. To enable the replication of this process, a tool was designed to make the comparison of graduates\u27 skills from different institutions easily accessible. Using this tool across multiple institutes in Europe and Korea, institutes have been able to establish an academic basis of comparison for the industry-selected criteria. The result is a framework which can be used to design specific, industry-led pathways through institutes across the globe and improve the interface between universities and industry. The exercise of designing the process and the mapping tool is described in this paper