Seat eXchanger: The Mobile, Open Source, Web App that Facilitates Flexible

Multi-Access Class Participation

Rich McCue - University of Victoria, Valerie Irvine - University of Victoria & Ryan McCue - Camosun College

The 9th Collaboration for Online Higher Education & Research (COHERE) Conference

October 2015, Victoria & Halifax, Canada

Overview

• Introduction to Multi-Access & Seat eXchanger.

• Demo.

• Technology Used & Project Road Map.

• Questions & Discussion.

What is Multi-Access?

Multi-Access Learning enables "student choice and agency" by allowing learners to participate in a class where and when it is convenient or most conducive to their learning (Irvine, Code, & Richards, 2013).

Face-to-Face -or- Video Conference -or- Recorded LectureOR...

A significant problem facing Multi-Access courses

A significant problem facing Multi-Access courses with a limited number of face-to-face and online seats [NEXT], is accommodating students who want or need to move between modalities...

Accommodating Student Needs with a limited number of physical & online seats

Administrative Burden

Extra Room Space or Video Conference Seats

● We couldn’t find anything else available that easily fills this gap.

The inspiration and guidance for this Open Source project comes from:

Dr. Valerie Irvine and her TIE Lab.

The project manager is Rich McCue, and

Lead developer is Ryan McCue.

Seat eXchanger Project

● During this session, we will briefly demonstrate typical use cases for the software from the student and instructor (or admin) perspectives, and

● then engage in a discussion about future functionality, features, and opportunities to contribute to the project.

The project is at a very early stage of development, and we are looking for and people and organizations using the multi-access pedagogy who interested in helping out.

● suggest features● documentation● translation for multiple languages.● coding

Seat eXchangerDemonstration

Site Under Construction

Teacher Perspective

Teacher Perspective: Create an account

Teacher Perspective: Create a Class● Click on “Create a Class” button.

Teacher Perspective: Fill Out Create Class Form

Teacher Perspective: Fill Out 1st Access Mode

Teacher Perspective: Add Additional Modalities

● Click on “Add additional Access Mode” to add additional modalities available for the class.● Done!

Teacher Perspective: Add Additional Week Day

● Click on “Add additional weekly Lecture Day” to add another weekly lecture day and time (e.g. “MWF” or “MTh”).● Done!

Teacher Perspective: Create Class!● “Create Class” when the class modalities and lecture days have been added to the form.● Done!

Student Perspective

Student Perspective: Invite & Registration

Student receives an email. Click on link that takes them to a registration page to add a password to their account… they are then automatically logged in.

Student Perspective: Default Modality

Their default modality is assigned by the teacher based on their “campus” registration.For example an out of town student’s default modality would probably be “videoconference” or “VC Robot.”

Student Perspective: Changing Modality

● Student goes to Seat eXchanger web app and select the class that they want to change modes.

Student Perspective: Select Class to Change

● Then click on date on which they’d like to switch modes.

Student Perspective: Confirm Change

● View Course to confirm that the modality change has been made.● Done!

Project Roadmap & Tech

Seat eXchanger -> Open SourceCode released under an Open Source license to allow others to contribute code and documentation back to the project.Lesser GPL to facilitate use with closed source software down the road.Will be on GitHub

Seat eXchanger -> Use with Other Platforms?

Integration with Moodle for authentication and seamless access for students.Will look at potentially using Google, Facebook and other authentication mechanisms.

Road Map HighlightsRelease 0.1 - 2015-09-01 - Released

Release 0.2 - 2015-10-28● Create/edit users● Create/edit class● Class layout like airplane● Add other modalities - not just F2F and online

Release 0.3 - 2015-11-28● Change/add class admin● Wait list or request a seat option if none currently available in desired modality.● Sign in with Facebook & maybe with Google & Twitter.● Set up community website for the project.● Release as Open Source license with LGPL license.

Release 0.4 - ???● Timezones● Edit class schedule● Send email notifications for “Request a seat”

Release 0.5 - ???● Moodle integration, including authentication

Technology

Tech: LAMP, Laravel PHP framework, Mailgun.org.

Thank-you & Questions?

Project Website: http://seatexchanger.org/

Research available at: http://richmccue.com/presentations/

This presentation: http://slideshare.net/richmccue

Contact: rich@msys.ca ryan@msys.ca @richmccue on twitter@_valeriei on twitter

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