Participatory Development Strategies for Open Source Content Management Systems

Autor/inn/en	Panke, Stefanie; Kohls, Christian; Gaiser, Birgit
Titel	Participatory Development Strategies for Open Source Content Management Systems
Quelle	In: Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 3 (2007) 2, (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1552-3233
Schlagwörter	Management Systems; Cooperation; Computer Software; Exhibits; Educational Technology; Internet; Electronic Learning; Technology Integration; Information Technology; Higher Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Co-operation; Kooperation; Unterrichtsmedien; Informationstechnologie; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen
Abstract	Stefanie Panke, Christian Kohls, and Birgit Gaiser maintain that effective strategies for the development of educational technology can only arise when the process is understood, analyzed, and assessed as a social phenomenon, and when the experience of users is integrated within the design process. To illustrate, they describe the early development of the portal e-teaching.org, which involved a range of stakeholders with diverse roles and professional backgrounds. In their account they employ the web model of Rob Kling--which emphasizes the interaction of agents, history, and infrastructure within the overall context of technology development--to identify the specific challenges that faced project participants in their collaboration. They note that project participants sometimes had conflicting priorities and assumptions due to their divergent professional backgrounds, and they describe how factors related to the technological infrastructure, the means of communication, the documentation process, and the workflow structure resulted in further obstacles as well. They then employ the STEPS model of Floyd, Reisen, and Schmidt to develop a cyclical model of software development whereby the role of users is more clearly incorporated within various stages of the design process. They argue that by using such process-oriented models to understand and organize software development projects, planners will be able to minimize the obstacles to effective collaboration while ensuring that the technology will successfully serve the needs of its intended users. (Contains 11 exhibits.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Fischler School of Education and Human Services. Nova Southeastern University, 1750 NE 167th Street, North Miami Beach, FL 33162. Tel: 800-986-3223; e-mail: innovate@nova.edu; Web site: http://innovateonline.info
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10