Run conversational office hours in which practitioners and researchers co-design research questions with platform representatives¶

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Description¶

Office Hours: A Conversational Series was SEERNet's first application of its guiding principles, grounded in participatory design. "Through a series of meetings, we convened a community of practitioners and researchers to work with representatives from the five DLPs to co-design research questions based on problems of practice." Registration included an interest form capturing expertise; conversations were synthesized by a researcher into draft research questions; and a feedback loop with participants refined them into viable questions. The resulting resources are available at www.seernet.org.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Strategic advertising to reach diverse practitioners (e.g., K-12 Title I school districts), an interest form, researcher synthesis of conversations, and a feedback loop to refine questions

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• K-12 practitioners, including Title I school district educators, and education researchers

Target Learning Goals¶

• Co-designing equity-centered research questions grounded in problems of practice with digital learning platforms

Affordances¶

• Participatory Design Practitioner Engagement

Related Strategies¶

• Plan an extended feasibility phase in which research and platform teams jointly refine design, implementation, and logistics
• Engaging practitioners through an advisory board, co-design office hours, and guiding-principles publications

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Pautz Stephenson, S., Banks, R., & Pakhira D. (2022, December). Practitioners at the center: Catalyzing research on problems of practice in realistic settings. Digital Promise. https://doi.org/10.51388/20.500.12265/164