TentativeProjectSchedule

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YEAR 1

: Finalize contract for 2-year NSDL grant
: Finalize contract for 5-year IERI grant
: Negotiate IRB approval with Phila School District
: Negotiate IRB approval with Drexel University

Fall 2003

: Start-up of project
: Video of math problem solving in middle school classroom
: literature review of group formation studies
: literature review of design research methodology
: review of existing software

Winter 2004

: Course on design of VMT software
: Video of collaborative math problem solving in college classroom
: Collect on-line logs for collaborative math problem solving in college classroom
: Startup Pow-Wow! student-student interaction in Math Forum community
: Jan-Willem Strijbos comes February 1 – June 30

Spring 2004

: Seminar on CSCL
: Develop, test and use coding scheme for chat logs

Summer 2004

: Workshop of international collaborators: software design, curriculum design, experimental design
: Continue coding analysis of collected data
: Transcribe video data for coding and discourse analysis

YEAR 2

Fall 2004

: Implement simplified initial online software system
: Fatos Xhafa comes September - February
: Alan Zemel comes in September

Winter 2005

: Alpha tests of online system with known users and human mentoring
: Stefan Trausan-Matu comes February – July

Spring 2005

: Videos of online users
: Collection of online logs
: VMT Spring Fest 2005
: Martin Wessner comes June - August

Summer 2005

: Analysis of collected data

YEAR 3

Fall 2005

: Redesign of online system with automated scaffolding
: HCI testing of online system

Winter 2006

: Elizabeth Charles joins from Canada
: Development of online system

Spring 2006

: Staged deployment of online system
: VMT Spring Fest 2006
: Release of VMT-Chat replayer software

Summer 2006

: Martin Muelpfordt comes June - August
: Upward Bound program
: Singapore junior college trials
: Analysis of collected data

YEAR 4

Fall 2006

: User testing of online system

Winter 2007

: Experiments with group formation
: Weiqin Chen comes January - December

Spring 2007

: Experiments with scaffolding

Summer 2007

: Analysis of collected data

YEAR 5

Fall 2007

: Collection of logs

Winter 2008

: Analysis of project findings

Spring 2008

: Project wrap-up

Summer 2008

: Project final reports

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