Disha NEET Physics Guide for classes 11 and 12.pdf
MOOCs at UVa as of March 1, 2013
1. MOOCs at the University of Virginia
Kristin Palmer, Program Director Online Learning Environments
kristin@virginia.edu Linked In: Kristin Olson Palmer
2. University of Virginia (“UVa”)
Why we signed up
What we are doing
Coursera Data Points
What we are learning
What we are thinking about
3.
4. Education Engineering
Darden Batten
Law
Continuing Studies
Medicine
McIntire
Architecture Nursing
Arts & Sciences
UVa College at Wise
5. Why did we sign up?
Source: Dave Cormier YouTube
16. What is the purpose of this endeavor?
• This is an experiment
• Flip the classroom (=professor)
• Enrich the on-grounds experience
• Collaborate with partners
• Online learning portfolio
• Build UVa brand
17. ASCIT
Instructional SCPS
TRC Technology
Instructional
Pedagogy
Design
General SEAS
Counsel Research
Digital
Student
Assistants MOOC Media Lab
Audio/Video
18. Research and Best Practices
Instructional
Vanderbilt
Design
Princeton edX
Udacity
Teaching
Michigan
Assistants
Coursera Stanford
Digital
Media
Lab
ASCIT
Darden
Media
Services
21. • Research - big data
• Adaptive learning
• Authentic learning
• Motivation
• Group/team work
• Assessments
• Functional Enrollment
• Duration (4-15wks)
• Video (5-50min)
22. Do what we say, when we say, with high quality
23. MOOC Development Process
4 months • Course approved by Dean ($$$ and faculty time)
• Internal kick-off:
– Legal: ADA, IP, copyright, and signing Online Course Agreement
– Roles & responsibilities => Team
3 months • Timeline established: go-live, videos due, staff support, course design
• Conversations on course design to understand learning outcomes, key
differentiation on grounds, pacing and flow, what should be online
• Conversations on expectations for staff support: course site, filming
2 months schedule, discussion boards, quizzes, surveys, and timeline
• Creating presentation materials, start filming
• Managing to the schedule - iterative filming, copyright clearances, course
site skeleton
1 months • Countdown to go-live – transcriptions, course site, discussion boards
• Go-live – high quality, delivering what we said, when we said
• On-going weekly working team meetings to troubleshoot and gather best
practices
• On-going monthly management meetings to identify next steps and
strategic priorities
24. Who’s on each course?
• Faculty
• Assistant
• Media
• Program Director
• Legal counsel
• Dean representative
25. How do we work?
• Weekly
– Working team Google Hangout
– Meeting with Coursera Course Operations
– Status report
• Monthly management meeting
• SharePoint and UVa Collab sites (FOIA)
27. Coursera
• Human right vs. privilege
• Video content, practice & mastery, community
Slide images taken from Daphne Koller’s February 2013 public talk at UVa.
33. What works for MOOCs so far?
• Short – 4-8 weeks, 5-10 minute videos
• Concise – global audience, targeted messages
• Consistent – if you say you will do it, do it
• Set Expectations – whatever they are be
extremely clear from the start
• Scaffold discussions – designing the boards to
be successful, expect ~10k posts/wk/class
• Crowd-source – sit back and observe
34. Super Star Instructors
Team focus
Expert in field
Consistent
Communicate
Ready for change
Willingness to fail
Able to prioritize
Always say something nice
Research
35. To do, not to do
• Try one thing at a time
• No short answer questions
• Wait for the crowd to source the answer
• “Finish it all” before Day 1
• Set expectations
• Be consistent
• Work as a team
• Meet the dates
36. Surprises
• Mastery learning is hard to accept
• Instant feedback
Slide image taken from Daphne Koller’s February 2013 public talk at UVa.
37. More Surprises
• Physical and virtual learning communities
• Civility of online discussion forums
• Asynchronous vs. synchronous
• Variation in the costs to produce
• Doing it all over again
• Valuable time for on grounds course
• Microscope in measuring success and quality
39. • Copyright
• IP and licensing
• UVa policies
• Governance
• Monetization
• For profit/non-profit
• Assessments
• Data and trends
• ADA compliance
• FERPA/EULA/ToS
40. • Accreditation
• State authorization
• Preservation and access
• Reusable content
• Volume of research/media
• 24x7x365 and sustainability
• Repeatable process
• Costs and funding
• Public university outreach
• Differentiate on-grounds
• Role of the instructor
We are a decentralized institution with many different silos of expertise and not a lot of infrastructure for collaborating or communicating across silos
Progressive and altruistic
Udacity, Udemy, EdX and Coursera
Darden is case based so this is one tool to augment their curriculum. Brought in business owners to come talk in class for 4 sessions.
Decided to go with senior faculty with mixed experience in online education
Scott thinks this slide doesn’t make sense
CopyrightIntellectual PropertyOnline Course AgreementConflict of InterestConflict of Commitment
CopyrightIntellectual PropertyOnline Course AgreementConflict of InterestConflict of Commitment
How much does it cost?Do more faculty want to do it?Will the faculty do it again?