1. ACM Education Council Mtg 2012-06-18

2. 2 / 6 CS10K Breakout ACM Ed Council CS10K Question  Delivery CS10K course or CS10K PD?  Both!  However, students and adults learn differently!  Focus is work for the students first?  Can create online materials that can be used to collect data, allow teacher to adjust instruction  Supports instructors lean on pedagogy or content  What kind of investment are needed to make this work so that it’s scalable?  Faculty domain expertise time  Proposal – do one module, do it well, measure. E.g., Big Data  System gets tuned and “knows” student because it’s seen so many other student like it  Benefit  Can handle huge variance in incoming teacher ability and confidence

3. 3 / 6 CS10K Breakout ACM Ed Council What is needed in OLI model?  To design the environment  $500k  Open University spent £2.5M and didn’t do so well?  They “bought out” domain experts’ time  They threw it out?  Some faculty really take to it and buy in early  Takes a long time to design it well (module is shorter time)  What are the knowledge components needed for a task, how to sequence feedback for this, get unstuck  Have expert “think aloud” to get a sequence of steps  Learning curve analysis  How do you get teachers to participate?  Any resources for parts that are new or hard are welcome

4. 4 / 6 CS10K Breakout ACM Ed Council Sanity Check  Let’s not think online learning is the miracle cure  Great learning happens with mentoring, learning communities, face- to-face learning  Candace’s work is thought of as an “online book”, to support teaching the course itself.  Students using it, and proving help to give feedback  Let’s ask teachers about what they need  We already know what AP piloters had trouble with  Let’s remember prior success/failure with past  Teachers feel like they’re “add-on” to software  “Coaching” only happened with the very best students  Chris is on board with modules intended for students, as advocacy support as well.  “Module in a box”

5. 5 / 6 CS10K Breakout ACM Ed Council Concern : language issues?  University model: background, lecture, doing  Lab reinforces the doing, e.g., search example  This is a rich process, we have some stuff “ready”  We’re a language agnostic system  What about language wars?  We’ll support top N current systems, which will get us 95% of the way there.

6. 6 / 6 CS10K Breakout ACM Ed Council First Pilot of online learning  Tom Cortina @ CMU already developing modules, we could start there.  His non-majors course is similar  First round of piloters would volunteer to contribute as part of Community of Practice