Baltimore Wednesday Grad Tools

Added by Clay Fenlason, last edited by Andrew Petro on Jun 08, 2005  (view change)

Location: 2nd floor, Stadium 3&4
Facilitator: Richard Ellis, University of Michigan

Demo and other information available online.

The session began by each person in the room answering "Who am I? Why am I here? What is my interest in this tool?" This set up discussion of the purpose of the tool, a demonstration of what is. Then discussed the potential for a DG / WG in support of making more portable, ehancing this tool. Current plans to bring this tool out of Legacy and into the Sakai 2.0 TPP/architecture.

The demonstrated tool is a workflow tool for graduate students, departmental committees and chairs, departments, and graduate student programs to track formal and informal steps in the progress of individual graduate students towards graduation.

Parallels with "scaffolding" in E-Portfolios. Parallels with grant funding workflow module in Kuali?

Some discussion of how you successfully develop and launch a tool, e.g. collecting requirements, working with the intended tool audience to build a tool to meet their needs.

The pitch here was: looking for interest, help, collaboration on this tool.

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Comments (3)

 

  1. Jun 08, 2005

    Andrew Petro says:

    Very impressive graduate student progress workflow tool. Greedily,...

    Very impressive graduate student progress workflow tool. Greedily, I wonder if this workflow tool can be so generalized that it can be used for other kinds of students (the example of undergrads looking to do a term abroad and needing to complete funding, application workflows in support of that application), students applying to special programs, and even non-academic workflows such as the steps a new staff member completes to acquire an ID, access, attend required training...

  2. Jun 08, 2005

    Chris Awre says:

    I found this presentation very interesting. It is a valuable set of functionalit...

    I found this presentation very interesting. It is a valuable set of functionality. Two queries/comments arise arise:

    • how generic are the tools to allow management of different research processes and models, e.g., to suit the UK model of research degrees?
    • work on institutional repositories in the UK have led to the development of an add-on to DSpace (called TAPIR) that supports the submission of e-theses and dissertations. It would be valuable to identify the overlap/link between the two processes and stages of research. See http://www.thesesalive.ac.uk/dsp_home.shtml for more information.

  3. Jun 09, 2005

    Michelle Bejian Lotia says:

    Chris, I'm part of the Grad Tools design & development team. I know that Univers...

    Chris, I'm part of the Grad Tools design & development team. I know that University of Michigan's University Library is embarking on a pilot of using DSPACE for submitting ETD. We're watching that effort and hoped that a successful outcome there would allow us to also offer ETD within Grad Tools. I wonder if that team is using TAPIR? In any case, it sounds like there is lots of overlap and opportunity to collaborate for our teams here. I'll find out if they are using TAPIR and will post contact info here.