What about pedagogies?

Pedagogies and Practices for Teaching the Thousands

Challenges

• Social constructivism in six-figure classes? (http://onlinelearninginsights.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/a-tale-of-two-moocs-coursera-divided-by-pedagogy/)
  • Student centered
  • Grading the work
• Managing hundreds or thousands of students
• Mix of students - post-grads, grads, undergrads, secondary school students in same class
  • Teaching 2/3 international - up to 1/3 in other languages (http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/06/05/early-demographic-data-hints-what-type-student-takes-mooc)
    • Cultural differences and translations
  • YouTube Auto-Captions with Translation
  • Google Translate

Strategies

• Test early and often (http://phys.org/news/2013-04-online-varying-attention-note-taking-retention.html)
• Peer evaluation (http://onlinelearninginsights.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/professors-pedagogy-and-moocs/)
• Robo-grading of short essays (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/23/education/robo-readers-used-to-grade-test-essays.html)
• Select groups to provide instructor feedback/guidance
• "Meet-ups" (http://edudemic.com/2012/10/mooc-meetup-groups/)
• Social media support
• Volunteer tutors (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/education/harvard-asks-alumni-to-donate-time-to-free-online-course.html?hpw&_r=0)

What is our research?

American Council on Education Project

http://www.acenet.edu/news-room/Pages/ACE-to-Forge-New-Ground-in-MOOC-Evaluation-and-Research-Effort.aspx

Taxonomy of Pedagogy - using an instrument based in part on the dimensions of pedagogy

Evaluate the pedagogical approaches in classes approved for ACE CREDIT

• Collect demographic and more data on the students - who succeeds?

Track students who have completed MOOCs and granted credit at selected UPCEA member universities:

• American Public University
• Central Michigan University
• Kaplan University
• Regis University
• SUNY Empire State
• University of Maryland University College
• SUNY Buffalo State College

What is their record? For example of you take Calculus I as a MOOC; how do you do in Calculus II at one of the selected universities?

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