- Halloooo!
- Status updates – how are we doing?
- MAT 1275 Course Hub– Ariane
- – ready (all pages need to be polished, but good to go).
- MAT 1275CO Course Hub – Ariane
- – should be ready by tomorrow (2 lessons to go)!!
- – Table of Contents – they fixed one of the problems (possible to minimize – but not minimized as default)
- – giving credits: Thomas & Holly, Henry, (Desmos).
- – sidebar menu adventures
- TO DO (EVERYONE): On About page, add a note that the Course Hub was developed in Summer 2020 by XXX (your name here), any other credits that are appropriate.
- MAT 1372 Course Hub – Marianna
- MAT 1375 Course Hub – Jonas
- – I’m behind! But working on it now – hopefully complete in next couple days
- – videos: Could Ariana apply for OER fellowship (Aug 17 deadline)? (Applications are available now). Kate: involvement in Course Hub initiative? Generally people like the idea of using the videos and compensating her if possible.
- MAT 1475 Course Hub – Lin
- – all done! (Awesome!). Except: Answers for exit problems? Kate is not planning to!
- – waiting for Jonas to give link to model course (See MIR page)
- MAT 1575 Course Hub – Kate
- – through lesson 20 (End of Taylor series)!
- – turning to personal course for now – will return to it once semester starts (end of September latest).
- – need to add learning outcomes, TOC
- MAT 2680 Course Hub – Satish
- – content is collected for all lectures
- – fine-tuning one lecture, then will clone & put up others
- – added “Lesson 0:” Why do we need to do differential equations?? (Great video)
- – by end of weekend should have 15 lessons up.
- – learning outcomes – will be simple, one line
- Feedback on design – colors & graphic
- – LaTeX fun (lining up multiple lines of equations)
- – great 🙂 !
- Promoting Course Hubs (& Model Courses)
- Initial email from Sandie re: Resources & Workshops
- – maybe an email to MIR site, explaining Course Hubs & Model Courses (?)
- Math Dept OpenLab site
- Math Instructors Resource site
- – update list in 8/14 workshop post on Math Instructor Resource page
- where else?
- Atrium Learning Center website: https://www.citytech.cuny.edu/alc/math.aspx
- – let’s ask Kate! She can reach out to Judy about adding Course Hubs (also may be some additional WW links, video resources etc to add)
- – Mariya bessonov? (sabbatical)
- Math Dept website
- – JONAS: Did someone take over for Mariya? Go through website committee (Peter Dinh is contact in CIS)
- JONAS: Sandie is meeting with Adjuncts (next week?) – can she talk about Course Hubs/Model Courses?
- JONAS: Ask Course Coordinators To send link with resources?
- Credit to Course Hub team for lesson development?
- Model Courses
- Status
- MAT 1275 Model Course
- MAT 1275CO Model Course
- MAT 1372 Model Course
- MAT 1375 Model Course
- MAT 1475 Model Course
- MAT 1575 Model Course
- MAT 2680 Model Course
- JONAS: Can we track how many folks are cloning Model Courses?
- Satish: CUNY IT Conference December. Shall we present? Yes, folks are interested. DEADLINE: Sept 15! (Satish has a draft in his head)
- Kate & Andrew should present on WeBWorK Final Exams!
- Status
- Request: Please look at the Model Course for your Course Hub
- Any links need to be updated?
- Any additional resources that would be appropriate to include?
- WW discussion:
- – timeline for setting up current semester courses?
- – do we have WW sets for 2680? (Satish: Yes, problems are fine w/ small exceptions (Bernoulli, representing constants)).
- TO DO (EVERYONE):
- On About page, add a note that the Course Hub was developed in Summer 2020 by XXX (your name here), any other credits that are appropriate. JONAS TOO!
- JONAS: In the Faculty area, provide link for feedback. – follow up with group.
Category: meetings
Meeting Agenda and Notes 8/6/20
- Halloooo! And welcome Kate, course coordinators, and Sandie!
- Review of project
- What is a Course Hub?
- departmental resources for students and faculty
- team is building Online Lessons
- Jonas is building other resources
- static (not meant for interaction/discussion)
- brief tour of course hub
- Volunteers to show a sample lesson?
- Course Hub vs Model Course
- every section needs an online home! Blackboard or OpenLab.
- if you’re using OpenLab, Model Course is place you start (clone it for your own section)
- course hub lives on OL but resources are for use by everyone, whether they choose blackboard or openlab
- What is a Course Hub?
- Feedback:
- Thomas: would be *great* to have internal City Tech videos for all of these!
- Kate: there is an existing (possibly unused) faculty resource site for Math – maybe we can adopt this?
- Ezra: let’s try to finalize lessons 1 month before they appear on syllabus?
- Update on faculty training
- Initial “What is an online course” training Wed 8/12 and Wed 8/19.
- Focussed technical trainings on Ths Fri both weeks.
- Model Course trainings tbd within those two Ths/Fri windowsill (tentatively Fri mornings)
- Kate will help out with the Model Course trainings (thanks Kate!)
- Jonas: MathType – good OCR for math equations
- Ezra: class slides w/ content from publisher – put these on private instructor area
- Course Hubs – status updates
- Lesson development:
- MAT 1275 Course Hub– Ariane
- MAT 1372 Course Hub – Marianna
- MAT 1375 Course Hub – Jonas
- MAT 1475 Course Hub – Lin
- contrast learning outcomes? accessibility
- MAT 1575 Course Hub – Kate
- MAT 2680 Course Hub – Satish
- Other resource development – any input from course coordinators on resources to include (especially faculty resources specific to your course)?
- Resources
- Textbook
- WeBWorK
- Video Resources
- Tutoring
- Review
- For Faculty
- Kate: link to stem applications from OG.
- Project Prompts for faculty (and solutions/examples)
- Faculty Announcements
- Course Coordination
- WeBWorK Faculty Resources
- Training and Support
- Resources
- Lesson development:
- Accessibility:
- Document discussing accessibility and opening links in new tabs – includes examples at the bottom of language that can be used in links.
- Questions:
- Marianna: question about cover image (converted to HTML???) – Jonas will look into
- Kate: Numbering lessons – consecutive? Or skip a number for exams?. Consecutive
- Kate: Learning outcomes for individual lessons? (OpenStax has them listed – will pull from there)
- Kate: (1575 reduction fmlas for trig integrals – some faculty use them, some don’t – included paragraph “these exist, talk to your instructor about whether you are using them”)
- Kate: embed desmos graph? JONAS will follow up OpenLab team.
- Ariane: screenshots from Desmos OK? JONAS will look into it (think its ok – does it need attribution?)
- Kate: Colors in LaTeX? (I think this is not supported)
- Ariane: is there another plugin for LaTeX that allows us to use more functionality? JONAS bug OL team about this.
- Block editor: the gosh-dang popup bar covers up what I want to look at!
- Kate: Accordions – Pages with accordions have extra accordions generated when you click edit?? BUG! JONAS will report.
- Kate: Interested in Mastery grading – “standards based grading”. Make a list of standards for the course (specific learning outcomes). Assessments – whether that standard has been mastered or not. Interviews?
Meeting Agenda and Notes 7/30/20
- Hallooo!
- Timeline
- Trainings tentatively scheduled 8/12-8/14 and 8/19-8/21
- What do we absolutely need in place by then?
- Satish: let’s shoot to have stuff done by 8/12!!
- Lin: shooting for August 5th (out from Aug 5-12). Draft of everything. When she returns, will go through one more time. (NOTE: Lin won’t be available next Thurs Aug 6th weekly mtg)
- Ariane: shooting to have everything by Aug 11th (Definitely 1275, for 1275CO)
- Jonas: needs to build out the “other” pages.
- Pages by Sheila Miller that we might want to leverage:
- Trainings tentatively scheduled 8/12-8/14 and 8/19-8/21
- Status updates
- How is everyone doing?
- MAT 1275 Course Hub– Ariane
- “Table of contents” at top – design? (Can we get COMD to help?)
- section headings? maybe numbered to match TOC
- Request for review of language/editing
- working with Holly – all videos on YouTube
- MAT 1372 Course Hub – Marianna
- MAT 1375 Course Hub – Jonas
- MAT 1475 Course Hub – Lin
- 7 lessons complete – workflow in place, etc.
- comments: add equation for line when tangent line is introduced (or link to review material on another course hub)
- red color might not be enough contrast
- Learning outcomes – contrast?
- MAT 1575 Course Hub – Kate
- MAT 2680 Course Hub – Satish
- Summer school finishes next Thursday – expects to do a big push after that.
- Collected content for about 20 lessons (NOTE: a few optional section – ommitted)
- SIMIODE – will use some links from here (math modeling perspective) – Sheila Miller has some content here
- Will do first OpenLab lesson this weekend.
- Heads up: using Canvas – it’s great, works well with LaTeX
- Lesson structure discussion
- Common elements for all lessons?
- Title
- photo element? (use as background for title? or drop?)
- Resources:
- Learning Outcomes – ??
- Textbook section
- WeBWorK assignment
- Notes (lecture notes) – if available
- Videos vs Additional Video Resources – vary a bit by course
- Some review notes
- Common elements for all lessons?
- TO DO:
- Change “Syllabus” to “Course Outline” – in menu & on page (ALL COURSE HUBS) – validate with other Model Course folks first!!
- JONAS: Reach out to COMD folks about “Table of contents” (Ariane’s lessons) – formatting? Look at Lesson 16.
Meeting agenda and notes 7/16/20
- Hello and welcome!
- Updates
- Rollout to department (meeting with Sandie tomorrow to coordinate various prof. dev. – Ariane, Samar, Bruce. But Sandie not sure if there will be funding available. BUT Ariane Too many commitments already this summer! Separate from 1275CO training, more general. Had put Ariane down to talk about OpenLab but not sure it’s the right fit/enough time. Marianna available to help in live sessions if that’s useful. Satish is available in a pinch (is also busy!)).
- Email to course coordinators sent Wed evening
- Lessons
- What does a lesson look like? (cont’d) – Share initial lessons, discuss
- Satish: sample lesson – in LaTeX, about 3 pages. On OL page: brief description, embedded video (recorded), link to lecture. NOTE: Not all lessons will require this level of content development – this particular topic (Bernoulli eq’s) is presented in a nonstandard fashion
- Lin:
- link to video resource page: https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/groups-mat-1475-student-video-resources-/syllabus-with-links-to-videos/
- (Ariane currently workin on Calc II)
- Marianna: no video resource guide. Will pick & choose for now, revise in Fall as teaches class
- Structure for peer review?
- Timeline for lesson development?
- Let’s draft as much content as we can in the next two weeks!
- Everyone commit to commenting updates on their wrk (what lessons you’ve created, etc) on “WEEKLY WORKING THREAD” post – Jonas will post this today or tomorrow.
- Can leave OpenLab questions there too (include a link)
- What does a lesson look like? (cont’d) – Share initial lessons, discuss
- Other resources
- About page: initial draft completed – needs feedback
- Video Resources: What’s our strategy for integrating existing video resource guides? Just put a link here, for now?
- Discussion: let’s keep the VRGs (Video Resource Guides) as separate site, include links to appropriate pages on VRG within the lessons
- WeBWorK, Video Resources, Tutoring, Review pages – JONAS will work on drafting these
- Faculty Resources – need some help on what to put here
- Course Coordination: what goes here? ideas?
- WeBWorK – Faculty Resources: Mostly this will contain links to existing content on the WeBWorK OpenLab project
- Training & Support:
- QUESTIONS FOR OL TEAM:
- links don’t open in new tab, even when “open link in new tab” is selected (look at “Textbook” page on Lin’s site for example)
- Embedded video doesn’t display screen shot of video (Lin’s Lesson page) – only shows gray box (but in Preview)
- Upload stick photo to Ariane’s site
Meeting Agenda and Notes 7/9/20
- Welcome and Hello!
- 3D meeting app (spatial.io)?
- Marianna: updates – LibreText
- Meeting time 4pm Thursday OK
- Roll-out to department (Charlie will join for this part)
- Course Hubs, model courses
- Jonas will be preparing model courses and training in using them
- Does there need to be specific training for faculty about each course hub?
- Satish: just need to educate faculty about course hubs – intro to department.
- Can we invite faculty to reach out to participants about each course hub (Y)
- Lin: About page – could act as a “manual” – details about what is included on Course Hub & how to find it. (In lieu of training!). Make distinction between section and course information.
- JONAS will draft this & share for input & feedback
- Include links to “all responsible parties” regarding a course!
- Should include link to person responsible for course hub (and we should continue to update these in realtime, as we go)
- 1275CO faculty go through training – can we build in the model course training in some way?
- (at most 20/year in the past – but may have more this year!!). Ariane guesses there will be no-one new teaching 1275CO (lots of folks have been through training already, fewer sections overall)
- The group agrees, 30-50 estimate overall (all courses)
- JONAS: Check in with Sandie about 1275CO training and any other training
- Math Dept OpenLab site! Let’s use this as much as possible (morning link back to it for central information)
- Course Hubs
- How is everyone doing?
- Administrative stuff
- Able to log in?
- Make changes? Updating “MAT 1375” everywhere
- Content-building stuff
- Create page
- Managing menus
- What other stuff?
- using LaTeX, embed images & videos, importing material from Word
- Format for “Question/Solution”?
- Updating “MAT 1375” everywhere
- Administrative stuff
- How is everyone doing?
- What does a lesson look like?
- Link from Maura – fair use of copyrighted materials: https://guides.cuny.edu/cunyfairuse/faculty
- How much detail to include?
- Things to be included in each lesson?
- What will a typical lesson look like in each course?
- MAT 1275
- MAT 1372: A lot of hands-on, working in excel, getting them to work in excel, etc.
- MAT 1375: Some text, definitions, examples, some images from text, video/screencasts showing examples worked out,
- MAT 1475:
- MAT 1575
- MAT 2680:
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.
- Week 1: Kickoff meeting, Jonas will finalize & distribute course hub template
- August:
- Finalize materials.
- Publicize materials to faculty teaching courses in Fall 2020.
- July:
- 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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