2012-03-13 Meeting

Attendance

•  Andy
• Gregg
• Jutta T.
• Liddy
• Matthew Atkinson
• Vassilis
• Gottfried
• Annuska

Action Items

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

Groups to be involved:

• Ageing (Focused discussion organized by Jutta T.)
• 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.

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

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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