A platform built for an interactive distance education to close the gap between students and instructors.
Accent serves as a platform for distance education students to view lecture videos and tag notes or questions on the timeline of the video. It creates a more collaborative distance education experience by allowing students interact within the video timeline.
As one of two designers in collaboration with business and computing science students, I had a role in designing interactions, visual styles, and functionality.
The project began with the intention of explore mobile educational systems. After doing some preliminary research to identify opportunities, Accent took the direction of making education mobile by decentralizing it by developing a distance education system that took full advantage of growing media.
Workshop video Participation Workshop
Wire frame iterations went through a peer review to identify usability, visual, and navigational issues. Key functions such as the commenting, tagging, reviewing and notifying were all altered in order to work better based on user goals.
Wireframes 1 Wireframes 2 Iterations Presentation
The final result of this project was a educational platform that made use of lecture videos and allowed for descriptive and categorized tags to be placed on the timeline of a video. These tags could then be searched at a later date for review, or used to pose questions to other users while keeping the video timeline information to maintain context. This functionality begins to bridge the gap between distance education and a classroom setting.
Mockups
