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The design of accessible learning technologies for precollege engineering education is a multi-faceted problem that must take into account a multitude of physical, social, and environmental factors. Using literature reviews and assessment by a participant observer during an 18-hour intervention with a local middle school, we propose that the elicitation of non-functional requirements for precollege learning technologies can be better understood by dividing schools in clusters which share similar resources and constraints. Developers can utilize the proposed scheme as a means to establish minimal criteria that learning technologies must satisfice to be viable for adoption by a wider range of users and better meet the needs and priorities of students and educators.
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Riojas, M., Lysecky, S., Rozenblit, J.W. (2015). Understanding Non-functional Requirements for Precollege Engineering Technologies. In: Klempous, R., Nikodem, J. (eds) Innovative Technologies in Management and Science. Topics in Intelligent Engineering and Informatics, vol 10. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12652-4_7
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