Ertmer and Quinn (2007) discloses that Scott Allen emailed the rest of his design team the good news-they had won a tender for a major project with SchoolsOnline, a national initiative to develop online resources for primary and secondary school. The Scott Allen project was designed to have students create a community on Mars. It is targeted for students in grades kindergarten thru second grade. The objective of the project is to determine if the students can identify the difference between necessities and wishes. Portny, Mantel, Meredith, Shafer, Sutton, and Kramer (2008) articulates that all projects change over time, so project managers have different planning responsibilities that match each phase of a project life. Greer (2010) provides a list of the phases from the post mortem review questions: Phase 1= Determine Need and Feasibility, Phase 2=Create Project plan, and Phase 5=Create Deliverables which will be beneficial in structuring and focusing for success of the project. Based on the age of the students, there are characteristics of the project that may be developmentally overwhelming or the tasks may need to be divided into based on grade level.  Also, feedback from these various phases will assist in the solving of the concerns encountered by the team members the Scott Allen was able to assemble. The concerns  confronted by the team members had included placing the community in space, ability to swap items, feedback concerning the choice the student made, confining the setting, and maintaining a realistic aspect in the project.  By implementing these phases collectively with the project, it will facilitate in overhauling the complications and minimize the frustrating the team is facing n creating a developmental appropriate project.

 

References

Ertmer, P. A., & Quinn, J. (2007). The ID Casebook: Case Studies in Instructional Design. Upper Saddle River: NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Greer, Michael. (2010).The Project Management Minimalist: Just Enough PM to Rock Your Projects! Laureate International Universities. HRD Press.

 

Portny, S. E., Mantel, S. J., Meredith, J. R., Shafer, S. M., Sutton, M. M., & Kramer, B. E. (2008). Project Management: Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling Projects. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.