As PSA begins designing a DLE for learners, we may want to consider identifying a template to understand our expected learners.
This is a persona method I found while working with the Carpe Diem MOOC.
Personas are a tool for sharing our understanding of our expected users, as a starting point for design.
Whether we are designing a jet plane or a learning activity, we are ultimately designing it for people – pilots and passengers in the first case, teachers and learners in the second. In order to fit the needs and constraints of these people, we need to have a model of the actors playing a role in our innovation. One popular way of representing such models, adapted from software development, is called “personas”.