Educational Platform Design
Problem Statement
Develop an Educational Platform app to address the need for accessible, flexible, and interactive learning experiences. This platform should provide diverse learners of all ages and backgrounds with comprehensive resources, personalized learning paths, and engaging content across various subjects. It aims to overcome barriers to traditional education by offering anytime, anywhere access, fostering collaboration, and enabling progress tracking and communication between learners and educators.
Major User Classes
The major user classes for this platform are Learners and teachers.
Characteristics
Learners:
Age:15-35
Skill Level: Knowledgeable & Experts.
Language: All Languages.
Motivation: Learning new skills and improve their knowledge.
Attitude: Varies (Depending on education and job and time management).
Teachers:
Age: 20-60
Skill Level: Knowledgeable & Experts.
Language: All Languages.
Motivation: Gain more income and help more people to improve their knowledge and skills.
Attitude: Medium – high (Depending on main job).
Competitors
Udemy & Coursera are two of the most unique and famous educational platforms and both are high level competitors.
Persona
Learner: Osama
Osama is an Information Technology student who wants to improve his skills and knowledge to get a better understanding of his job profile and update his resume and CV and maybe get a good change of internship or good fulltime job.
Teacher: Ahmed
Ahmed is a senior ASP.NET developer with a good experience and many projects and wants to experience a new challenge by giving online course of web development to improve is teaching skills and give help to juniors to improve their skills and start their career in web development.
Interview Results
Several features were requested during the interview, some from teachers and some from learners, starting with learners who asked for a video content to be present in the platform to help them keep up with the instructor and follow them up step by step.
Learners also asked for a section for copies of the course materials like PDFs, Labs or PowerPoint to be able to revise the content on their own without going back to the course page on the website every time they need to check a specific information.
Mutual feature was asked from both learners and teachers which was feedback section which could help both to improve their gains from the course:
Learners: improve their experience by filtering courses as they like from the feedback of other students who already finished the course.
Teachers: Improve their methods by learning from the feedback of students who finished the course and had notes or problems understanding specific points or from some students who have some suggestions to improve the quality of the course or the content.
Learners and teachers asked also for a community section in each individual course to maximize the communication methods between learners and teachers by directly communicating with each other to clear any fog after finished some videos or studying some course content.
Domain Model
Paper Prototype
