1. SOCIAL Physics: www.koondis.com
Galen T. Pickett, Thomas Gredig, Zvonimir Hlousek, Chuhee Kwon, James Kisiel
CSU Long Beach, Physics and Astronomy

2. Outline Motivation Engineering a curriculum: F2F
Engineering a curriculum: Online
Teamwork: Social Homework
Online Laboratory: Authentic STEM
CO Redesign Project
Conclusion

3. Motivation CSU Long Beach
36,000 students, many first-generation, low-income
STEM Gateway for Long Beach
90,000 applied for 5,000 spots.

4. CSU Long Beach Physics 11 TT Faculty
3-year average, 18 undergrad degrees / 12 MS degrees
UD gateway course
APS
Minority Bridge Program
PhysTEC Legacy Site

5. Motivation for Physics
Important to get it right!
Better careers for students
Special skills, better problems
Existence and justification.
Recruit physics majors from introductory physics
Double majors
If we don’t, who will?
We have a successful course F2F … export it.

6. Existing Course Physics for Scientists and Engineers (Mechanics)
Not a “bottleneck” … an “accelerant”.

7. Engineering a Curriculum
Matter and Interactions
Physics the way physicists do it
Formal reasoning
Derive results, then apply
Physical Problem Solving
Momentum / Energy / L

8. Engineering a Pedagogy
Large lecture format: Hall of Science
I>Clicker
Cooperative
Interactive
Engaging

9. Honors Sections Support high performing students
SCALE-UP classrooms, both 151 and 152
Long Beach Register, 2/5/14

10. Engineering Student Support
Learning Assistants “Undergrad TA’s”

11. …but… Homework should be teaching physics
36% of exam performance “explained” by homework (correlations, per student)
Strengthen correlation exam <-> homework?

12. Koondis.com Zvonimir Hlousek, Thomas Gredig …and me.
CO incubation project.

13. Social Homework / Koondis.com
Async / Groups / Roles / Rotation / Any Content
Social Media overlay / “like” “thanks”

14. Instructor Workflow Assign groups automatically (10 min, presemester)
Rotate “roles” week to week
Custom: Director, Investigator, Executive, Skeptic
Assign problem to group (5 min)
Grading posts, likes, thanks -> grades (5 min)
600 students in 10 courses now (lower / upper division, lecture, laboratory)

15. Instructor Feedback

16. Teamwork: Social Homework
Asynchronous teams (Kisiel NARST 2013)

17. Grades and SHW (Kisiel)

18. Accidental Experiment
Spring 2012 –> Spring 2013, add SHW
Correlations … significant at p<10^(-4)
Homework (finally) helps exam performance.

19. Mechanisms? Grit: Duckworth … “how is failure dealt with”
Normalizing and metacognition
Everyone sees everyone’s work
Everyone is good at something
Best students struggle
Praise … “like” “thanks”
Overlapping, reinforcing effects
PER research project … why does this work?

20. Fully Online Mechanics
Same Homework as Brick-and-Mortar
Social Homework to support problem solving
Social Homework: collaborate in experiment design
Social Homework: portion of exams
“GLUE”

21. Laboratory: Authentic STEM
Social Homework Groups Design Experiments
“Tracker” used to perform measurements
Experiments independently verified / groups
Groups decide / construct their own meaning
Ph.D. – level scientist required to judge

22. Online Laboratory 3-week cycle: Requires a Professor – by design
Propose experiment (in group), RFP
Experiment performed
Results confirmed
Requires a Professor – by design
60 seats so far, 100 in Spring 2015
Three sections worth of capacity relieved (24 lab sections now, M-F 7am-10pm)

23. CSU CO Redesign Project
“Social Homework” is a “Proven Practice”
Fall 2014, redesign courses to use tool
Run course with Koondis in Spring
3 units (at replacement rate, or $$$)
Department chairs will approve “RFP”.
This year, CO pays all student fees ($35 / student) … ANYONE in CSU who adopts.

24. Conclusion Social Homework: MOOC Glue
Social Homework: Experiment as Social Activity
Students depend on each other
CourseCraft: positive
interdependence
Gerry Hanley, Asst. Chancellor