Collaborative MOOCs for Teacher Professional Development Hsiaolin Hsieh, Director of Technology,...
-
Upload
adam-doyle -
Category
Documents
-
view
216 -
download
0
Transcript of Collaborative MOOCs for Teacher Professional Development Hsiaolin Hsieh, Director of Technology,...
Collaborative MOOCs for Teacher Professional Development
Hsiaolin Hsieh, Director of Technology, Data & SystemsUnderstanding Language Online
Stanford University
GMU, Nov 9, 2014
http://ell.stanford.edu/
Our Inaugural MOOC
Vectors for data ingress
• User profile
• Uploading student language samples
• Team collaboration/social networking
User/educator profile
• NovoEd profile – Age– Gender– Highest level of
education– Location– Primary language– Education (schools)– Occupation– Bio
• Course profile – Primary role as an educator– Grade level focus– Content area focus– Years of experience– School district– Expected level of
engagement with teamwork
– Commitment to the course
Student language samples
• Samples– Conversation (transcript and/or audio recording)– Writing– Reading (notes or audio recording)
• Contextual information– Grade level – English proficiency– Primary language(s)*All data is anonymous
Team dynamics
MOOCs and beyond
Video library
Student language database
Student language samples
teachersresearchers
Privacy issues
• Implicit data collection– What: Tracking participants (educators) progress
through the course, generating data on their interactions with the platform and with one another
– How: terms of use of the platform, IRB approval– Why: research and course improvement– Issues: MOOC-related big data collection
Privacy issues
• Explicit data collection– What: Student language samples and
contextualizing information– How: student oral consent and parent letter, and
teacher agreement– Why: database – Issues: Ownership/licensing of data, obtain
permission (strategies for minimizing opt-out rate)
Appendix IResearch information
Appendix IIDear parent letter
Appendix IIIstudent oral consent
Appendix IVparticipation agreement (for database use)