Models of using Physics MOOCs for Blended Learning on Campus Saif Rayyan Lecturer, Physics Department Digital Learning Lab Scien?st, ODL Physics Curriculum and MOOCS On edX 8.01x, 8.02x, 8.MReV 8.05x Mastering QM @ MIT 8.01, 8.02 TEAL+x Mech Review 8.S05 QMII •
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8.01: Physics I 8.02: Physics II 8.05: Quantum Mechanics II 8.13: Junior Lab I 8.14: Junior Lab II 8.421: Atomic Physics (Graduate) 8.SHIP: School of Heavy Ion Physics (Graduate) 8.851 (EFTx): Effec?ve Field Theory 8.421x Planned 8.EFTx 8.13, 8.14 8.421, 8.SHIP……. 8.S851 Why MOOCs? •  Immediate feedback. •  You can do physics online / provide an (almost) equivalent experience – some?mes beder. •  Use data to improve teaching and learning. 8.01 TEAL(Technology Enabled Ac?ve Learning) 8.01r/8.02r •  600-­‐800 students. (compared to 1700-­‐1800 for 2013 MOOCs) •  No change of class ?me. •  Focus on immediate feedback provided by the plajorm (inside and outside class). •  Integrate all resources/data in one place. •  Lesson: MOOC needs to be aligned with the residen?al course. Quantum Mechanics 8.S05 and 8.05x 8.S05 Spring 2015 •
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Special sec?on in the off semester. Limited to 20 students. Mostly online Same content as the MOOC (but separate course on MITx). Tradi?onal 8.05 8.05x Spring 2015 Lectures 3 hours/Week Lecture Videos (5-­‐20 minutes) +Checkpoint Exercises Recita?ons 2 hours/Week Tutorial Videos (Overhead Camera) Homework Pen-­‐Paper 9 hours? Computer graded Homework Pen-­‐Paper Exam Computer graded Exams 8.S05 @ MIT Spring 2015 Lectures 3 hours/Week Lecture Videos (5-­‐20 minutes) +Checkpoint Exercises Recita?ons 2 hours/Week Tutorial Videos (Overhead Camera) Homework Pen-­‐Paper 9 hours? Computer graded Homework Pen-­‐Paper Exam Computer graded Exams 8.EFTx Fall 2014 •  MOOC and MIT students in one course. •  Fully online (+2 office hours). •  All material open on day 1 + very flexible schedule. •  Highly modular. •  Research focused (50% of grade on peer graded video presenta?on). Problem Adempts: Course Chapter versus Week People are doing the problems out of order Pace for doing problems varies widely 1
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hdp://web.mit.edu/fnl/volume/272/rayyan_belcher.html 8.S05-­‐ Q: Please indicate how helpful the following resources and ac?vi?es are in learning the 8.05 material 8.S05-­‐ Q: Compared to other courses you have taken at the physics department at MIT (e.g. 8.04), would you say that you did more or less of the following: Thanks to David E. Pritchard John Belcher Peter Dourmashkin Deepto Chakrabarty Jolyon Bloomfield Charles Holbrow George Stephans Krishna Rajagopal Lori Breslow (and TLL) Zhongzhou Chen Analia Barrantes Michelle Tomasik Barton Zwiebach Jaehoon Lee Iain Stewart Daniel Kolodrubetz And many many more….