Meeting Agenda and Notes – 7/1/20

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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