Hewlett OER Meeting

DIY MOOcs Session

=> Group 1 (http://pad.p2pu.org/p/hewlett-2013-group-1) - 

=> Group 2 (http://pad.p2pu.org/p/hewlett-2013-group-2) - Team Teacher PD

=> Group 3 (http://pad.p2pu.org/p/hewlett-2012-group-3) - Open Data Policy 

=> Group 4 (http://pad.p2pu.org/p/hewlett-2013-group-4) - Future of Higher Education

Participants:

• Philipp Schmidt - P2PU/MIT Media Lab - @schmidtphi
• Karen @kfasimpaur
• 
  

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Group 1 - OER in EDUCATION

Participants:

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Topic:


Identify/mascot:


Existing OER/Related activities:


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Notes:


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Follow-up/Next steps

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Group 2 - INFUSING TECHNOLOGY

Participants:

• Laura
• Priscila 
• Tony
• Vis
• Tony
• karen
• 
  

Topic: Infusing Technology

Identify/mascot: Robotic Pandas - friendly technology!


Existing OER/Related activities:

• TPCK web site
• UNESCO guidelines for technology
• Africa Virtual University - integrating technology into subject areas
• RSA-like videos (open-licensed? )
• 
  

Activities:

• entry survey - create interest groups
• Hybrid - f2f cadres (way to address more mainstream teachers)
• Do online part - go back to classroom and use it; report back; train others (train the trainers)
• KISS - media-based
• 
  

Tools/platforms:


Notes:

How do you attract more mainstream teachers?
Need institutional adoption - leadership - incentives ("Stipends are a dangerous route.")

Questions:


Follow-up/Next steps



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Group 3

Participants:

• Carol Rossini - OER Brazil/New America
• Amar Ashar - Berkman/Harvard
• Nicole Allen - 

Topic: Building upon Open Data
U.S. Government and governments around the world publishe a lot of data due to initiatives such as the Global Partnership and due to the implementation of access to information law or even to generate unexpected innovation (such the case of data.gov), but not many people know how to use it and the gov't therefore doesn't see the full value of it.  Our course will teach students about the many ways this data can be used and how to demonstrate its value to the gov't through data visualization strategies based on group-collaboration.

Goals:
1. Teach people how to use data (based on deeper learning strategies - hands on activity and cross-country collaboration)
2. Show policy makers that publishing data is useful
3. Enable students to manipulate, understand, and visualize data
4. Focus on project based learning (using open data) to advance projects in the public interest
5. Form the next generation of folks with experience dealing with data and aware of collaboration and sharing strategies 
6. Develop interest groups around specific topics like IP/licensing, design, 
http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2013/02/01/prescornerfeb2013/

Identify/mascot: 
How to Speak Data
"Data is awesome and useful" 
Data is not dust, it is power - POWER TO THE shine data cape! 
     
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Existing OER/Related activities:
Data sources:

• data.gov (public domain) 

Books/OER:

• statistics books - http://collegeopentextbooks.org/opentextbookcontent/open-textbooks-by-subject/statisticsandprobability
  • http://cnx.org/content/col10522/latest/
  • http://www-958.ibm.com/software/analytics/manyeyes/
  • http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/teaching_aids/books_articles/probability_book/book.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data

Tools: 
Data Viz Tools

•  http://timeline.verite.co/
• http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215504/22_free_tools_for_data_visualization_and_analysis 
•  R software http://www.r-project.org/
• http://www.creativebloq.com/design-tools/data-visualization-712402
• http://www-958.ibm.com/software/analytics/manyeyes/users/Fernanda+B.+Viegas

Resources pointed by students based on their local needs and expectations

Tools/platforms:

• P2P building upon platforms above 

Notes:
Open Goverment Initiatives: 

• http://www.whitehouse.gov/open

Questions:

Follow-up/Next steps
find the instructor - hopefully- http://fernandaviegas.com/ for tech piece and open advocates for license and policy piece

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Group 4

Participants:
Angleyn
Mary Lou
Patrick
Gordon

Topic:
Future of Higher Education
Identify/mascot:
Repainting the dinosaur http://www.flickr.com/photos/openpad/2329850146

Existing OER/Related activities:
TED talk
Expert talks
Our talks
Cross-over with policy group and Teacher ed

Tools/platforms:
Participant led direction and project format
Groups around ideas that 
Rethink from scratch (cf Chronicle of HE)
Provide a value in that outputs can feed into something bigger (e.g. EU IPST) call
Collaboration rather than content (P2PU)
Reflect back participant views.
Graph of what the best answers and ideas - open voting (maybe limesurvey), Delphi
Google tools - hangout, spreadsheet, visualisation.


Notes:
Issues: can MOOCs lead to qualifications

Questions:


Follow-up/Next steps
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topic brainstorming for teacher PD:

• peer to peer learning (teacher, student)
• teacher data use
• deeper learning 
• Common Core
• * infusing technology
• building robots
• maker spaces
• emergencies
• interpreting curriculum
•  *using OER
• project-based learning
• content developent - OER development - remixing 
• improving literacy
• teacher support systems
• fostering innovation in our schools
• facilitating student group work 

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Archive from morning session

Group 2 - Teacher PD

Participants:

• Topic: Personalizing Math: Finding and Evaluating Standards-Based Open Educational Resources

Empowing Teachers: Common Core + OER

Brainstorming topics:

• Common Core
  • existing content: School of Open, Writing and the Common Core (P2PU), iTunes
  • specific course/group by grade level and subject
  • David Wiley's group took CK12, remixed, and wrote TOC by Common Core stds
• New assessments - SBAC, PARCC, writing assessments, etc.
• Finding OER
• "being a librarian for OER" - Tagging content/Metadata - LRMI, Learning Registry, etc.:    simple metadata standards around educational materials. WC3-endorsed.    CC is giving sub-grants to the big OER repositories to implement.  Next   phase will produce toolkits so that smaller projects can easily    implement.
• Openness in education: OER vs. open learning, etc. How has education changed? (DS106)
• Case studies: here are learning objectives, …
• TEKS (Texas standards)
• Meta-organizer course on iterating MOOCS - could be a group at P2PU - activities to iterate on past course
  • Include    an assignment in which each student or group improves a module of the    course ("week 2 lesson plan" or similar) or adding metadata…closed    captioning…translating…
• 
  

Identify/mascot: 

empowered teacher 

Existing OER/Related activities:

• School of Open courses 
• Achieve rubrics
• OER Commons 
• All the math OER in the world
  • CK12 math textbooks are aligned to Common Core
  • http://mathispower4u.yolasite.com/
  • Khan
  • Curricki - some is aligned to Common Core
  • Expeditionary Learning (?...may not have math)

Activities:

• evaluation of resources
• deep dive into standards 
• remixing resources

Tools/platforms: 

• P2PU
• Remix tools
• 
  

Notes:

• In    the US, Common  Core is an opportunity for teachers to take back the    curriculum.  Teachers empowered to choose the resources that teach to    the core. We  are in a fleeting period of transition; there is an    opportunity, but it  will pass.
• Analytics will drive a lot of this. Will OER interface with this?

Questions:


Follow-up/Next steps


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