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ProjectProjectCourse ThreadsCourse Threads
Johnson NguyenAdvisor: John Chuang
Problem Statement/Objective Schools have remained attached to a grid-like
departmental structure Students find little coherence in their major course track
beyond what is simply recommended Both Berkeley faculty and students are unaware of
intersections among courses offered in different departments
Integrate course information into a single, easy to use, web based system that allows students to navigate the relationships among courses.
Solution
Social Network Courses are the nodes Professors build the edges Professors generate threads Each page contains information about a course,
professor, or thread Allow for browsing
Background Information
Current project started with grant money of $240,000 from Andrew Mellon foundation Spread over 4 years Humanities department Two course threads per year, 4-5 professors per thread
Project Sponsors: Anthony Cascardi (Director, TCH) Teresa Stojkov (Assoc. Director, TCH) Celeste Langan (Faculty Director of Programs)
Current course navigation systemCurrent course navigation system
Current Class Selection Process for the Arts & Humanities Department, College of Letters & Science – UC Berkeley
Reg
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nD
epar
tmen
t 4
Dep
artm
ent 2
Dep
artm
ent 3
Stud
ent’s
Dep
artm
ent Cal Student
Choose dept on College of
Letters/ Sciences website
Read course description on
Berkeley’s class catalog website
Select classes within major
Finished selecting classes?
Yes
No
YesSelect classes within major 2
Choose dept 2 on College of
Letters/ Sciences website
Finished selecting classes?
Read course description on
Berkeley’s class catalog website
No
YesFinished selecting classes?
Select classes within major 3
Choose dept 3 on College of
Letters/ Sciences website
Read course description on
Berkeley’s class catalog website
No
Yes
Finished selecting classes?
Register for classes on the
Telebears website
Choose dept 4 on College of
Letters/ Sciences website
Read course description on
Berkeley’s class catalog website
Select classes within major 4
Proposed course navigation systemProposed course navigation system
Proposed Class Selection Process for the Arts & Humanities Department, College of Letters & Science – UC Berkeley
Reg
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atio
nT
owns
end
Cen
ter
for
the
Hum
aniti
es w
ebsi
te
Cal Student
Log onto the coursethreads
website (Townsend Center for the Humanities)
Choose major and read course descriptions
Select link to related courses in other majors and
read course descriiptions
Register for classes on the
Telebears website
Select courses
StakeholdersStakeholder Motivation/Needs
Project sponsors Deliver a system to the Consortium for Disciplinary Innovation
Faculty Add new perspective to courses Help students design optimal curriculum
Undergraduate students
Understand course connections across departments Select optimal courses to meet goals
Project manager Balance time, scope, and resources to meet stakeholder needs; Recognition
Developers Develop according to current specs of the system efficiently and modularly Recognition; pay
Benefits
Increase in student satisfaction with academic program Greater probability that students’ curriculum is ideally
tailored to their professional goals and interests. Provides platform for faculty to learn about related
courses Provides preliminary platform for faculty to discover
common research interests possibly leading to collaborative research between various sub-groups within A&H.
Accomplishments
Project Management
Risk Analysis and Mitigation Plan
Description Probability Impact Strategy
Poor faculty participation L to M H Plan to use content from b-space and interview professors to discern connections;Contingency of $25,000 for award money
Change in project manager H H Document progress and lessons learned after each milestone
Weak engagement from student developers
M M Work with academic affairs to apply project towards academic credits
50% of tasks are on critical path
n/a L Add resources and time
L=Low; M=Medium; H=High
Relevance
User Interface Design & Development Computer Mediated Communication Computer Visualization Web Architecture Economics of Security & Privacy Project Management Managing Business Transformation Projects
Develop - II
Test - II
Deploy – II
Training – II
Future Road Map
Task Done Phase I Phase II
Q1 07 Q3 07 Q3 08 Q3 09 Q3 10Q1 08 Q1 09 Q1 10
Go-live IIGo-live IINov 18, 2009Nov 18, 2009
Project Management
Requirement
Phase I System LiveDesign & Prototyping
Develop - I
Test - I
Deploy – I
Training – I
Go-live IGo-live IDec 17, 2009Dec 17, 2009
Planning – Prototyping
Planning – Upscale
Project Management No work
Testing:-Integration Test-Performance Test-User Acceptance Test
System Live: -No development work- To capture real user feedback
Project Management
Future Road Map Continued
Demo
http://coursethreads.berkeley.edu