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Overview

This project aims to develop and present a mobile strategy for the Open edX project that aligns with Axim's mission of providing a teaching and learning platform that is accessible globally, even in limited bandwidth environments. To ground the strategy in learner expectations and patterns from other top educational applications, a survey of the mobile landscape will be conducted.

To support this project, meetings, and discussions with Open edX ecosystem team members will be scheduled, and an open call for interested parties to contribute will also be incorporated. The strategy proposal will be organized in terms of Product, Design, and Technology components to facilitate engagement in specific areas of interest.

Project Team

• Community Lead - Marco Morales

• Axim Lead - Edward Zarecor

• Raccoon Gang Lead - Volodymyr Chekyrta

• Supporting - Colin Brash , Poornima Hanumara (Deactivated) , (and others to be added soon!)

• Following - See watch list on this Confluence page!

Key Goals / Outcomes

1. Product: Deliver a mobile strategy and product roadmap to support investment focus areas over the next two years. This includes:

   1. Gathering input on a mobile product roadmap/strategic focus areas from the community to create a clear community roadmap for mobile.

   2. Reviewing and assessing existing discovery efforts from 2U, Raccoon Gang, and elsewhere regarding mobile app improvements to integrate into the proposal.

2. Technology: Recommend next steps for technology investment to support accelerated Open edX mobile development speed and increased contributions. This includes:

   1. Assessing the benefits and impact of moving to brand new mobile code bases that leverage MVVM architecture patterns, based on a proof of concept effort underway by Raccoon Gang.

   2. Specifying feature gaps and the level of development effort required to close feature gaps between the newly architected mobile repositories and the existing codebase to assess feasibility and investment level.

   3. Evaluating a sequencing plan for development that can support the potential migration of existing users to a new codebase.

3. Design: Identify experience gaps between the existing Open edX mobile applications and industry leaders in both education and related non-education applications to identify key experience investments. This includes:

   1. Reviewing several key app exemplars that support high-quality and offline learning experiences for students, and documenting findings for the community.

   2. Identifying key themes and opportunities that should be considered as part of experience improvements to the applications.

   3. Gathering existing design discovery and recommending investment/sequencing based on expected impact to a global audience of learners.

Current Status and Next Steps (against Goals / Outcomes)

Where applicable, we will link to other pages once they are added to the Product space for each of the goal areas below.

Project Meetings / Status Reviews

Action Items

•  Volodymyr Chekyrta - to share timing of mobile conference talk in slack
•  Poornima Hanumara (Deactivated) - to gather discovery / collateral for open edx mobile development to support clear comparisons + feature parity
•  Marco Morales - to update discovery pages to reflect current status on main project page
•  Marco Morales - to schedule dedicated time to discuss migration path / conversion.
•  @Team - review of the feature comparison page + Marco Morales to schedule (optional) working session for this
•  Volodymyr Chekyrta + Marco Morales to draft confluence page with screenshots for app comparisons
•  Poornima Hanumara (Deactivated) + Colin Brash - existing 2u mobile roadmap sharing + details
•  Marco Morales - to review the mobile versions and releases pages for updates

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