Month: June 2020

Initial meeting of the OpenLab Course Hub / Model Course Initiative – Mathematics, Summer 2020

• Welcome and Hello!
  • spacial chat? 3D online meeting (lets try to use this next meeting)
• About the Course Hub / Model Course Initiative
  • Program description (Mathematics)
  • What is a Course Hub?
    • In development: MAT1375
    • Faculty area
      • Marianna:  has lots of materials that should be “faculty only” e.g. projects, quizzes, data, solutions, etc.
    • Jonas: make contact with course coordinators, present project (socialize !).  THIS WEEK!
    • Everyone: update Multiple Position Forms (paid in August)
  • Deliverables
  • Timeline
    • July: 
      • Week 1: Kickoff meeting, Jonas will finalize & distribute course hub template
        • Decide on future meetings
        • What does a sample lesson look like?
      • Week 2: Develop & share sample lessons with group, peer review.
      • Week 3&4: Collect & create materials / ongoing peer review.
      • Week 5: Initial draft of all materials / peer review.
    • August: 
      • Finalize materials.
      • Publicize materials to faculty teaching courses in Fall 2020.
• Discussion: What does a Lesson look like?
  • May be more than one model
  • Best practices for adapting course materials (from COMD)
  • 1372 lessons (WW) – aligning with OpenStax through OER initiative.
    • BUT our current text is Ross – not OER
  • OER texts?
    • 1275/CO:  Alex is writing book, not ready yet.  Currently using 2 books, not OER.
    • 1375: oer text (citytech)
    • 1372:  Ross text, not OER.  BUT working on WeBWorK aligned with OpenStax.
    • 1475: OER text (OpenStax).
      • Lin: prefer not to stick to any fixed textbook!  Write our own notes…?
      • wants to group lessons by topic.
      • Link lesson to syllabus – each day in syllabus has topics, each topic links to lesson.
    • 1575: OER text (OpenStax)
  • Lin: Exit problems (end of lesson) – self test
    • Must contain core of lesson – even if doesn’t cover every detail covered in class
    • 1475:
      • short videos for core concept,
      • notes from text,
      • what are important examples you should study,
      • assignments from WW,
      • exit problems
    • Introduction – for students arriving at lesson
  • (OER Initiative: LibreTex, building materials next year)
• Next steps
  • Google doc “what is a lesson”? – JONAS will create this & send around
  • Course Hub:  JONAS will finalize, clone for each course, send to all
    • Lessons are pages
  • Everybody: play around with your Course Hub, try developing a sample lesson before next week’s meeting – bring your questions!
  • MEET NEXT WEEK:  1pm Wednesday.

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