http://www.cmu.edu/oli/
"improvement in post-secondary education will require converting teaching from a solo sport to a community based research activity" - Herbert Simon
What is a community based research activity in teaching?
- theory based
- employs feedback loops
- diversity of perspective, roles and contexts
OLI project goals:
create theory based examples of courses
open access
create a feedback community
They use electronic "tutors" that are basically mini modules that give automated feedback. a cool thing about it is that the tutor will know if the student needed a lot of scaffolding and will prompt them to try again and try to get in without the scaffolding.
Theory based
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Build on students prior/informal knowledge
provide immediate feedback in the problem solving context
Promote coherence -- continually promote them tying the individual skills into the big picture
Multiple representations with explicit connections
Promote authenticity, flexibility and applicability
Feedback Loops
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feedback with faculty, designers, students
Evaluations - pre/mid/post tests
anticipated benefits -
core community - faculty content experts, learning scientists, human computer interaction, software engineers, evaluation/assessment specialists, Learners, and community of scholars
The challenge of scale
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Learning theories are like toothbrushes, everyone has one and nobody wants to use anyone elses
In feedback, the nature of feedback is contextual (i.e. helping people understand how to give valuable and effective feedback)
ecology of use and reuse - mix and mashup of content in isolation (i.e. what is a sustainable ecology for use and reuse?)
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