[CLOSED] FC-0011 - Mobile Product Strategy/Backlog Development
Funded Project ID | FC-0011 |
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Provider | Marco Morales, LLC |
Axim Contact(s) | Ed Zarecor |
Expected Completion Date | July 2023 (originally April - extended project in calendar time, even if not scope) |
Status | Complete |
Additional Project Details | 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. |
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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
Product: Deliver a mobile strategy and product roadmap to support investment focus areas over the next two years. This includes:
Gathering input on a mobile product roadmap/strategic focus areas from the community to create a clear community roadmap for mobile.
Reviewing and assessing existing discovery efforts from 2U, Raccoon Gang, and elsewhere regarding mobile app improvements to integrate into the proposal.
Technology: Recommend next steps for technology investment to support accelerated Open edX mobile development speed and increased contributions. This includes:
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.
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.
Evaluating a sequencing plan for development that can support the potential migration of existing users to a new codebase.
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:
Reviewing several key app exemplars that support high-quality and offline learning experiences for students, and documenting findings for the community.
Identifying key themes and opportunities that should be considered as part of experience improvements to the applications.
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.
0 Project | Project Overview / Tracking / Docs / Meetings. | COMPLETED
Future Tasks
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1 Product | 1a Roadmap Input / Review | COMPLETEd
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| 1b Discovery Effort Review | COMPLETED
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2 Technology | 2a Evaluate New Code Bases | Outcome: We are planning to propose a shift to using the new Raccoon Gang authored mobile applications as the default iOS + Android experiences to support faster development, community engagement. The path to this transition / migration away from the current applications is still unknown, so no timeline exists for this and we are still ensuring we provide ample time for community input and review. REVIEWED
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| 2b Feature Gaps and Effort | IN PROGRESS |
| 2c Sequencing / Migration | IN PROGRESS
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3 Design | 3a App Exemplars | MARKED COMPLETE- Not all app discovery documented in confluence
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| 3b Experience Themes | IN PROGRESS [FC-0011] Mobile - Design Experience Themes - NOT YET DRAFTED |
| 3c Sequencing / Impact | COMPLETED - Incorporated into sequencing of roadmap / prioritization |
Project Meetings / Status Reviews
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