Thanks and best regards,
--Scott
Scott Hudson | PELCO by Schneider Electric | United States | Standards & Information Architect
Phone: +1 970 282 1952 | Mobile: +1 720 369 2433 | Email: scott.hudson@schneider-electric.com Dear LW DITA and DITA L&T sub-committees
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Here's an initial set of use cases for
Lightweight DITA, targeted at various user groups in learning, training,
and education.
These are based on background work I've
been doing over the past several years related to both US K-12 education
and corporate training. I've recently had a few specific discussions, but
mostly these are a starting-point take to initiate feedback and further
discussion on the potential value of a lightweight DITA solution for education.
Please review, add comments, suggest
additional user groups, ask questions - the more inputs and discussion
at this point, the better.
I'm cross-posting to the DITA Learning
and Training SC list - if lightweight authoring is a topic of interest
for you, then please consider joining in the work of the LW DITA SC.
Thanks.
John Hunt, IBM
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An initial set of user groups and outline
use cases for Lightweight DITA and Learning, Training, and Education
1) Grade K-5 teacher
2) Grade 6-8 and HS teacher
3) University professor / instructor
4) Textbook author
5) Textbook publisher
6) Online course contributor (MOOC or
LMS)
7) Curriculum director
8) HS student
9) Primary school student
10) Online course student
11) Corporate training
1) Grade K-5 teacher
* Easy templates. Simple editing
- paragraphs, lists, simple tables.
* Built-in sections to list objectives,
map to standards
* Easy to create quizzes and other
learning checkpoints
* May need to embed graphics,
videos, other multimedia, including from Ppt or Doc content
* May create simple graphics directly
inline
* Basic math support - (not sure
if this means mathML)
* Editing just like MS Word -
ideally, can embed word, ppt as needed
2) Grade 6-8, HS teacher
* Same as above
* Easy to create ppt's for use
in classroom
* Anything different about a HS
teacher?
3) University professor / instructor
* Same as above
* Definitely need ease of creating
ppt's (or equivalent) for use in classroom
* Easy to generate content to
publish in websites and epubs
* Can seed content to student
forums - so that students can easily add new content and comments, etc.
4) Textbook author
* Require all the ease of Word,
but with built-in template support for the specific textbook publisher
5) Textbook publisher
* Collect contribution from diverse
authors and merge into new deliverables
* Generate many different outputs
- websites, interactive epubs, pdf, etc.
6) Online course contributor (for a
MOOC, for example)
* Simple templates, tightly matched
to delivery format(s) in use for the course
* Need to create content and see
how it will look when delivered
* Need clear guidelines for small
sections, with objectives, guidelines, quizzes, etc.
* Good methods for collecting
references out to support resources
* Open for comments and student
contributions
7) Curriculum director for K-12 school
* Creates curriculum frameworks
and overall objectives
* Simple templates, matched to
design of curriculum standards
* Easy references to other standards
(such as US Common Core, state frameworks)
* May also create top-level lesson
plans
* May include example lesson plans
* Jumping off point for teachers
to create lesson plans and content
8) HS student
* Dead simple to use - must be
like Google
* Requires browser and mobile
support
* May need specific forms for
samples, exercises used in homework
* Also support for quizzes or
other checkpoints used in homework
* Includes references to additional
materials for remediation, additional practice, or more advanced content
9) Primary school student
* (One SME suggests primary target
of "Make it so a Grade 1 student can use it!")
* Most basic authoring possible
- can use on a variety of devices, including pad + touchscreen
* Just point, type, fill in the
blanks
* Anticipates / detects problems
and provides guidance as needed
10) Online course student
* Anything different than HS student?
11) Corporate training curriculum developer
/ SME
* Needs to integrate well with
professionally-produced content
* Support for multiple forms of
output
* Easy to use templates that match
the corporate training templates
* Easy to pull in content from
Word and PPT as needed
* Easily identified objectives,
with supporting quizzes
* Requires output to a PPT (or
ppt-like) format for classroom or online delivery
* Integration into corporate LMS
training solution
Looking forward to your feedback and
discussion at the next LW DITA meeting.
John
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John Hunt
Senior Technical Content Architect
IBM Collaboration Solutions | User Experience: Design and Information Excellence
4205 S. Miami Blvd, Durham, NC 27703
john_hunt@us.ibm.com
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