what do teachers want? reusing ocw in the high school classroom
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What Do Teachers Want? Reusing OCW in the High School Classroom
Eileen McMahon, UMass Boston OCW, Senior Instructional Designer eileen.mcmahon@umb.edu
Cheryl Siegel, MIT OCW, Department Liaisoncsiegel@mit.edu
Robbin Smith, Tufts OCW, OCW Editor/Curricular Content Specialist robbin.smith@tufts.edu
©, UMass Boston photo credit: Harry Brett
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What Do Teachers Want? Reusing OCW in the High School Classroom
Topics we’ll cover:• Summer workshops with BPS Teachers• Our OCW collections• Workshops discoveries• Results from follow-up survey• Action Items for OCWC
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OCW for BPS Workshops Overview
• Three day workshops were held in July 2010 at UMass Boston campus
• Over 30 attendees– 75% were teachers– 30% of the teachers taught Science, Math or Technology subjects– 25% Guidance counselors /administrators
• 95% of attendees had limited previous knowledge of subjects presented in the workshop
• Workshop funding made possible by the Boston Foundation as part of a grant awarded to UMass Boston
• 2,055 Syllabi & reading lists
• 17,531 lecture notes
• 9,460 assignments
• 980 exams
• 705 projects
Many include:
• Audio/video (~60)
• Complete texts (~30)
• Simulations/animations http://ocw.mit.edu
MIT OpenCourseWare
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Use Scenario %
Enhancing personal knowledge 31%
Learning new teaching methods 23%
Incorporating OCW materials into teaching materials 20%
Finding reference material for students 15%
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MIT OpenCourseWareEducator Use
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• Launched Nov. 28, 2007
• Organizes ~70 introductory courses
• Maps ~2,600 resources to U.S. AP curriculum
• Provides materials to inspire STEM study
http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school
MIT Highlights for High School
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Tufts OpenCourseWare• Official launch June 2005
• 1 FT staff with support from Technology for Learning in the Health
Sciences department
• Focus on health sciences courses
• Sustaining member of OCWC
• Reflection of Tufts’ commitment to open access content, furthering
Tufts’ mission of knowledge sharing as part of its non-profit objective
and leadership in civic engagement for global active citizenship.
Copyright 2005 G. Kaurfman TUSVM. From Zoological Medicine homepage." Published in Tufts OpenCourseWare (2005-2011). http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/60/Coursehome. (Retrieved 4/18/11). Reproduced with permission of the author and publisher. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
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Who Uses Tufts OCW and Why Statistics from our 2010 Pop-up Survey
Visitors by role Top 10 main reasons for visiting (in ranked order)
15.5 % Faculty Personal learning Other
25.0% Student Complement course being taken
Substitute for a course
46.1% Self-learner Planning course of study Curricular development
5.7% Other Keeping current in field Planning educational website
7.7% No response Teaching preparation Research learning
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Ranking Tufts OCW Statistics from our 2010 Pop-up Survey
Ratings to survey statements consistently > 4.0 (1, lowest - 5, highest)
• Tufts OCW has/will increase my interest in learning about a particular topic• Tufts OCW has/will help me supplement my existing knowledge about a topic• Tufts OCW website has/will increase my awareness of Tufts' academic programs• I have/will have discussions with colleagues about specific materials or topics from the Tufts OCW website
• I have/will recommend the Tufts OCW website to others
Copyright 2005 G. Kaufmann, TUSVM. From Zoological Medicine homepage." Published in Tufts OpenCourseWare (2005-2011). http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/5/Coursehome. (Retrieved 4/18/11). Reproduced with permission of the author and publisher. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License
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• Consists of 42 graduate and undergraduate courses
• Launched in 2007• About 12 courses added to the collection each year
• Team consists of 1 staff member working quarter time and 3 work study students
• 78,659 unique visitors in 2010
UMass Boston OpenCourseWare
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Topics Covered in Teacher Workshops:
• General Intro. to OpenCourseWare - What it is and why it's useful
• Creative Commons License - What it is why it's important to anyone who is developing curriculum
• Guided Tour of several OpenCourseWare collections
• Strategies for integrating OCW into the high school classroom workshop and for advising students
• Guidelines for reusing and remixing curriculum materials found online and for managing and sharing own original materials online
• Managing OCW materials with Web 2.0 tools such as Zotero, & delicious
• Creating Curriculum with Google Docs
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Workshop Observations
©, UMass Boston photo credit: Harry Brett
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What parts of OCW that you saw today would you most likely use in your classroom?
audio lectures
podcasts
department offerings
course overview
exams
simulations
powerpoints
projects
syllabi
downloadable tools
video lectures
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What additional materials or support would you need to use OCW in your teaching?
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Workshop Findings
• Presented with OCWC collections teachers were not sure how they would reuse OCW materials
• Creating curriculum with OCWC materials is not easy for teachers
• Most teachers are not familiar with the tools necessary to reuse OCW materials
• Teachers need more resources to guide and support their use of OCW
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Follow-up Data from Workshop Participants
• Surveyed nine months after attending the workshop, 75% of teachers who responded said that they made use of OpenCourseWare materials in their classrooms
• Google docs ranked as the top new tool they were introduced to in the summer workshops
• On a scale of 1-5 (with 1 being easy to reuse and 5 being difficult) they gave OCWC materials a 3
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Opportunities for OCWC
• Organize more workshops to train teachers how to reuse and remix OCW materials
• Create OCWC content in a modular way so it’s easier to remix
• Develop tools for remixing curriculum• Sponsor more research on how teachers remix OCWC materials
• Develop mobile applications for reusing and remixing OCWC materials
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Opportunities for OCWC (cont.)
• Create curriculum development center for OCWC that might contain: – Showcase of curriculum that has reused and remixed from OCWC materials
– Showcase best practices for using OCWC– Provide links to OCWC recommended tools for remixing curriculum
– Create OCWC YouTube channel for all videos created by consortium forum for educators who are reusing materials
– Create Teacher Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)– Sample lesson plans
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Opportunities for OCWC (cont.)
– Organize Flickr OCWC group where CC images appropriate for teaching and learning can be found
– Create teacher handouts with ideas and examples– Discussion forum for teachers reusing OCWC materials– Provide teachers with direct contact with OCWC publishers
– Create teacher polls to provide feedback about their use of collection
– A publishers section that displays poll results
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APPENDIX
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Boston Public Schools (BPS) – Profile
• 134 schools in the system• Annual budget $821 million• 57,050 students• 74% students low-income• Diversity of ethnic backgrounds in student body– 41% - Hispanic 13% - White 36% - Black 9% - Asian
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kristopherm/
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MIT OpenCourseWare Quotes“Viewing your courses has made me a better teacher and I expect to be sending some of my students to MIT in part because of your efforts.”
“Just wanted to say "thank you" for the wonderful content! I teachchemistry and physics at the HS level. I review my content knowledge as well as some wonderful demo ideas. MIT OpenCourseWare is awesome!!!!”
44.1%16.8%
4.3%
1.5%
20.0%4.5% 8.7%
Educators9%
Students42%
Self learners43%
MIT OpenCourseWare: A Global Audience
• 1-1.5 million visits per month
• 17.5 million visits in 2010
•Translations
• Chinese (707)
• Spanish (99)
• Portuguese (95)
• Thai (37)
• Persian (49)
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Visitors to Tufts OCW / courses visited Statistics from 2010 Google Analytics
• Visits grew 23.17% from 2009 to 2010
• Visitors came from 218 countries/territories and
20,159 cities
• Top 10 course homepages visited
– Basic Human Pathology, Parts I and II; Pathophysiology of Infectious Diseases;
Blender 3D Design; Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Medicine I; Cardiovascular
Pathophysiology - Human Growth and Development; Microbiology;
Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology; Zoological Medicine
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Tufts OCW Faculty Contributor Comments
• “… the final product is wonderful and I am proud to have my name associated with it.”
• “… OCW has provided us two wonderful assets: (1) as bridge to many other campuses, scholars, and internet users around the world: and (2) the chance to work with the OCW staff whose professionalism and end-product have made our courses even better than they already were.”
• “… I’m glad I did it and would do it again…the main reason I support it is that it takes knowledge out of the marketplace and makes it freely accessible to all…this is as it should be .…”
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Tufts OCW User Comments
• “…Tufts OCW impacted my learning by making available other non-traditional sources of information at my fingertips.”
• “… I think that this is a good way to share the resources of a nonprofit institution. Tufts cares about the people of the world, and shows its social responsibility to the world through projects such as this ...”
• “… I’m a South African medical student who’s struggling with an epidemiology assignment and this information you made available helped me tremendously.”
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Ranked Top Components of OCWC
1. Downloadable Tools2 PowerPoints3 Projects4 Syllabi5 Exams6 Video Lectures
7 Audio Lectures8 Course Overview9 Simulations10 Podcasts11 Department Offerings
What components of OpenCourseWare do you consider most valuable in guiding or teaching your students? (Check all that apply)
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