Attendees

Notes

4-year grant from Amgen: Technology, Content, Partnership
- Harvard resources for Tech architect, UI efforts
- External vendors for implementation
High-level features
- Content repository
  - Content metadata to search in content catalog
  - Content = pathways of 3-4 components; combining to create 3-4 week curriculum
- Streamlined user experience (eliminating enrollment flow)
- Custom UI
- Social features
- User-generated content; not a separate Studio interface
Other features
- Permissions on content actions
- Flagging/reporting of content
- Content assets available outside of course
- Progress/motivation on profile for "gamification"
- Including content from external resources, without needing to leave the LabXchange experience
Simulations
- To prepare students before they go to the physical lab
- Somewhat separate from the rest of the platform
- Tools being developed in parallel
Data
- Will rely on analytics from open edX
- Not a short-term high need to consider data from other external tools