DESIGN+PROJECT+PLAN

=Design Project Plan= by Mie Buskirk ELT641-2 Learning Design Assignment #5: Project Plan Due: 1/12/2011 (Thu)

Current Situation:
The best things students learn at MALT (Masters of Degree in Learning Technology) is collaborations and communication among the cadres, who can share their ideas and knowledge. However, once the students graduate from MALT, they departure from MALT to take a new journey where they can test their learning in a real world. The graduates become busy in their new life and they lose the collaborations and communications.

Value of Alumni:
What graduates benefit from MALT is a great treasure for other people, who have not yet know what are offered at MALT. At MALT, they learned blogging to increase their ability to think deep, to provide other cadres with ideas and thoughts, and to learn them from attentive cadres. Students at MALT are the people who will be able to build educational/corporate programs using the technologies for the current and future generations. Alumni is the ultimate high point of achievement at MALT.

Difficulty of keeping connection with alumni :
Both alumni and current students at MALT do not have a __common__ place where they can share their ideas and thoughts. Alumni visit social media where they can communicate with people who provide new happenings and news currently occur. Current students at MALT are interested in communication with alumni, who has a large amount of information about learning at MALT. They can also inform current students what are the current trends of technologies outside MALT. One of the problems is that there are no ideal place for both alumni and current students to take advantages of their expertise one another. The second problem is that the expectations and needs of alumni and current students are not yet fulfilled.

Our Design Project Goal :
Alumni is a “trailblazer” of MALT, who can suggest current students with much information about learning at MALT, and current situation in education with technologies. Current students can in turn share their new innovative ideas and thoughts they learn at MALT. Our Design project will provide alumni and current students with a “central hub” where they can visit and share their expertise, ideas, and knowledge.