Failures
CVs only show what worked. This is the rest: papers that got rejected, experiments that went nowhere, projects I quietly shelved, each one marked up with what it taught me.
- Rejected2
- Failed1
- Abandoned1
- Failed
Protocol wasn't strict enough for our first experiment, forcing us to shrink our data sample
We weren't strict enough on the protocol, so we had to discard some student and teacher data.
What I learned: Anticipate better, and be clearer about the protocol and what's expected, required, mandatory, or forbidden.
- Rejected
Paper about co-designing learning analytics dashboards with teachers
A first attempt at describing our co-design method with teachers, with an original method using a chatbot to have a dual approach.
What I learned: Reviewer 2 hit. More seriously, we didn't know what it took to get accepted at this conference. Now we know a bit more.
- Rejected
Risk Integration Paper
Article was not accepted despite the interesting idea around integrating risk management into the Design-Based Research method.
What I learned: Be more targeted and specific about the actual contribution of a paper.
- Abandoned
memoire, a spaced-repetition app
A side project to build a flashcards app based on spaced-repetition research.
github.com/memoire-appWhat I learned: Shipping and maintaining a web app on top of a PhD, doesn't scale. The spaced-repetition logic lives on in later research discussions instead.