2012-02-28 Meeting

Attendance

• Annsuka Perkins
• Colin Clark
• Jutta Treviranus
• Vassilis Koutkias
• Gottfried Zimmermann
• Gregg Vanderheiden

Regrets:

• Liddy Neville
• Andy Heath

Action Items

Skipped.

1. [ANDY] Recruit participant experts in Digital Literacy: (Andy will make a cold contact.)
   1. Pending. Andy waiting for reply.
   2. Jutta Croll has contacts too. Needs more details on what expertise is needed. Andy: Jutta & Jutta should talk about this. ECDL = European Computer Driving License.
   3. Jutta T.: We want to capture all needs of users that we didn't capture in the first round (24751).  By end of Feb. we want to have a comprehensive set of preferences.
   4. Andy: What are we expecting from these experts, e.g. participation in calls, etc.?  What process do we follow if they can't join the calls?  Jutta: Ageing group will have a focused discussion, organized by Jutta T.  Process specific to group.
   5. Information: Andy has talked to DCL. Friend in discussion with Loughborough university, also in DCL. Should draw on the eLearning lists in the UK.
2. [GREGG V] To get a contact with Deaf - Blindness
   1. Talked with Amy Parker, she is interested and willing to contribute
3. [Jutta ]: will hold a 1-2 hour consultation with all of the Bianca Stern Andrew Arch and  David Sloan
   1. Will happen this week
4. Jutta: Make a list of user groups involved, and those whose needs haven't been captured yet

Status Update: User (Experts) Involvement

Skipped.

Groups to be involved:

• Ageing (Focused discussion organized by Jutta T.)
  • Bay Crest: Number of scenarios developed, including context specific and function specific needs.  New findings about needs that are currently not in 24751.  Report will be sent to the general group soon.
  • Andy will contact another person, Jutta T. will follow up.
• Autism (Annuska)
• LD, low vision, blindness: Gregg will get feedback from TextHelp.  They are submitting their setting files.
• Digital Literacy: nothing new.

For recruiting, see Recruiting Input Regarding Needs and Preferences.

NSDL Paradata standard

Jutta informs about this standardization activity.  Paradata is a combination of information on the resource and the learner that is using it. While its origin is in the learning space, it is also being used in other contexts.  The US government is considering developing a standard on Paradata, but currently this doesn't include disability related preferences. 

Could we join this effort of the US government?  And contribute user preferences for pwds?

Could the paradata be a third branch of 24751 (parallel to the user preferences, and resource description)?  Paradata is dynamic and gets updated on the fly.

Link to Paradata learning registry: http://www.learningregistry.org/

People should look at this - to be discussed at our next meeting.

Discussion on Profile Structure

Refer to Discussion on Profile Structure.

Discussion on Metadata

References:

• Email message by Andy on 2012-02-07.  http://lists.idrc.ocad.ca/pipermail/accessforall/2012-February/000034.html
• Schema.org: http://schema.org/
• NSDL Paradata standard: https://nsdlnetwork.org/stemexchange/paradata

Future Agenda Items

1. One API or two APIs for the match maker?
2. Simple 1-to-1 relation between user profile properties and adaptation parameters?

Adjournment

• at 20:00 UTC

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