ConnectuIntroduction

Introduction

After completing the user research in the understanding phase of this project we gained a greater understanding of the needs of students on the York University campus. The students we spoke to felt that they were disconnected from the student body. With the majority of students commuting to campus daily, transit times took up the majority of the students’ free time.

In addition to feeling disconnected the students we spoke to felt that they would benefit from a more communal learning environment in which they could learn from others and offer there own input.

From this understanding we came to see the benefits of creating a collective learning environment. The more important goal of the system is to create a system in which students learn from and with other university students.

The collective learning environment also helps to connect students to the campus community without requiring that they make additional time to be on campus. With the system being online students in their own free time learning at their own speed interact with other students.

Collaboration in the learning process capitalizes of each student’s knowledge and makes it available to the student body.

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