Innovative EdTech and Infrastructure at MIT
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This presentation discusses MIT's Strategic Education Initiatives office and its work on innovative educational technology and infrastructure. The office works on projects to advance digital learning through partnerships with universities, foundations, and other organizations. It is developing an educational infrastructure called "Backstage" to support content reuse across MIT courses on edX, OpenCourseWare, and other platforms. The presentation also provides examples of MIT's approach to educational technology, including automated exercises in chemistry and virtual laboratories, as well as residential experiments using MITx courses for online assessments.
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- 1. Innovative Educational Technology and Educational Infrastructure at MIT October 15, 2014 Brandon Muramatsu mura@mit.edu Cite as: Muramatsu, B. (2014, October). Innovative Educational Technology and Educational Infrastructure at MIT. Presentation to Air University, Cambridge, MA. October 15, 2015. Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- 2. Outline • What are your interests? • About Strategic Education Initiatives • Options – Backstage: Educational Infrastructure – MIT’s Approach to Educational Technology – Residential Experiments using MITx • Open Discussion Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. 2
- 3. Strategic Education Initiatives, Office of Digital Learning • SEI nurtures and manages education experiments (projects) driven by MIT’s and ODL’s strategic priorities and mission. • SEI works with national and international partners to advance the field of digital learning. – universities, foundations and trusts, non-governmental organizations and countries Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. 3
- 4. Connecting within ODL and MIT • SEI partners with MIT faculty, students, staff and alumni. – Leverage what’s going on across MIT • SEI’s work builds upon MIT’s digital learning assets. – MITx, MIT OpenCourseWare, MIT pedagogical approaches and other educational tools and services developed by MIT faculty and ODL Strategic Education Initiatives Residential Experiments Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. MITx edX/MITx Platform Faculty-Led EdTech Activities MIT Offices OCW Digital Learning Research 4
- 5. Current SEI Projects Community Colleges K-12 Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Universities • Leveraging MITx courses at other universities • Course and curriculum design • Professional development • Curriculum design • Linking courses / competencies / labor market information (jobs) • STEM Workforce Development • K-12 Videos • “MIT” STEM learning experiences in Grades 8-12 • Teacher education programs Next Gen Technology • “Backstage” • Learning objectives & concepts • Assessment authoring and management 5
- 6. BACKSTAGE: EDUCATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- 7. The Problem • MIT Faculty are investing heavily in content development (notes, videos, assessments) for edX and OCW delivery. • Ideally, MIT should manage these resources and make them available as needed to our community for re-use. • Solution must… – Support integration with edX, OCW and others – Be adaptable to new technologies and market products Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. 7
- 8. Current Development Workflows Faculty MIT Course Production Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. 8 Stellar Course … Course Site Other MIT Support Class Only MITx (edX) Production MITx MITx on edX MIT Course for edX OCW Course (Scholar) OCW Production OpenCourseWare OCW … MIT Course MIT Course from Stellar MIT Course from Prof.
- 9. Possible Future Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. 9 MIT Digital Learning Infrastructure MIT Content Repositories … MIT Courses Context Experiences MIT Course on Stellar MIT Context+ Repositories … OpenCourseWare MITx Course on edX New Destination
- 10. Proposed Solution – Backstage Services • “Headless” content services with published APIs – REST, Python, Java • Key applications using these services • Support a developer community Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. 10
- 11. Backstage Core Service Suite MIT Educational Content Related Services Assessments Assets Producer PRISM Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. 11 Videos Applications Learning Objectives • MC3 VCB Assessment Tools MIToces
- 12. Producer – Asset Management for Reuse Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. • Motivation – Support content reuse in MITx (edX) content workflow – Ease content search and integration – Explore alternative authoring tools for edX delivery • Status – Proof-of-concept being tested 12
- 13. Producer and Backstage Services Assets Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. 13 Assessments Videos Learning Objectives • MC3 Online Course Platforms Producer
- 14. Assessments Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. • Motivation – Manage, share and author assessment items – Track usage and IRT data across assessment offerings – Implement APIs for taking as well as managing/sharing • Status – Proof of concept drag-and-drop authoring tool (demo) – App to Embed Assessments (QTI assessment items) – Physics Question Bank (PQB) under development 14
- 15. Assessment Backstage Services Assets Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. 15 Drag and Drop edX assessment item authoring Assessments Videos Learning Objectives • MC3 Assessment Authoring
- 16. Video Concept Browser – Browse Video by Concept Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. • Motivation – Enable better use of whole-class lecture video (60-90 minutes) by segmenting by concepts/topics – Pre-production for MOOC courses • Status – App to browse lecture videos by concepts (demo) 16
- 17. VCB and Backstage Services Assets Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. 17 Assessments Videos Learning Objectives • MC3 VCB Navigate course video by concept or learning outcome
- 18. MIT’S APPROACH TO EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- 19. MIT’s Approach Our approach is technology in the service of pedagogy Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. 19
- 20. EdTech Strategy at MIT • Support faculty and students by experimenting and adopting innovative practices in teaching and learning – Innovative approach in delivering General Ed requirements –Make powerful tools and experiments accessible to students – Leverage content and resources across courses and programs – Facilitate hands-on learning in new ways – Develop educationally valuable software tools Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. 20
- 21. EdTech Strategy at MIT • Inform development of educational infrastructure and services – Develop platforms (not one-offs) that render sustainability – Implement test-beds for promising educational technologies and new services, to advance teaching and learning – Develop plans for the incubation, early implementation, and the transitioning of delivery systems to long-term core service providers – Develop core infrastructure to support teaching and learning • Support a shift to more blended and online learning Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. 21
- 22. Improve Mastery of Concepts • Enable students to check their understanding / mastery of concepts directly in course materials – Primarily for formative (self-check, understanding) not summative (exams or formal assignments) – Strengthened by tie to learning outcomes, content • “Embedded Assessment” – MITx Courses – Open Embedded Assessment: Assessments anywhere, anytime Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. 22
- 23. Auto-scored Exercises: Chemistry Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. 23
- 24. Virtual Laboratory: Electric Circuits Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. 24
- 25. Open Embedded Assessment • Screenshot • Demo http://oea.herokuapp.com/ Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. 25
- 26. RESIDENTIAL EXPERIMENTS USING MITx Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- 27. 3.091: Solid State Chemistry, Fall 2013 & Fall 2014 • MOOC offered Fall 2012, on-campus class revamped in Fall 2013 • MIT students use MITx to do weekly online assessments in proctored classroom and get immediate feedback; students can repeat assessments without penalty for two weeks • Grades now based largely on online Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. assessments • Measurable performance improvements over prior terms • Experiment: weekly formative online assessments replace traditional exams
- 28. Wrap-Up – Strategic Education Initiatives • Technology, in the service of pedagogy • Innovating, through partnerships • Build upon core MIT values: Mens et Manus • Sharing, at MIT and beyond • Interests: Assessments & Tools, Modularity Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. 28
- 29. MIT Office of Digital Learning Strategic Education Initiatives Brandon Muramatsu mura@mit.edu Cite as: Muramatsu, B. (2014, October). Innovative Educational Technology and Educational Infrastructure at MIT. Presentation to Air University, Cambridge, MA. October 15, 2015. Unless otherwise specified this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Editor's Notes
- Cite as: Muramatsu, B. (2014, October). Innovative Educational Technology and Educational Infrastructure at MIT. Presentation to Air University, Cambridge, MA. October 15, 2015.
- Producer is a flagship application in MIT’s educational content management strategy. It will provide for authoring, search and re-use of MITx & MITr content and courses as well as export to edX & OCW formats for course delivery. Producer includes plug-in architecture for service integration and export schemas (e.g., IMS Common Cartridge—used by Canvas, etc).
- Embedded Assessment provides faculty and course developers the ability to embed formative assessment in any web accessible content. We believe that by making it easy to embed assessment directly in content anywhere and everywhere, we have the potential to dramatically increase learning effectiveness.
- The Video Concept Browser allows learners and faculty to navigate course video by concept or learning outcome. It uses traditional lecture video and provides tools to enable faculty to assign concepts/learning outcomes to specific timepoints.
- Through Interactive Exercises that are embedded along with the lectures we can quickly and in a timely fashion get a sense of how learning is progressing –learners can test their understanding and receive feedback, take corrective action Mind you these are auto scored – one of the aspects of MOOCS is tat several of these standard functions are automated – scale and immediacy / just-in-timeness These are for subjects ranging from Chemistry -- Programming Video Courtesy of edX/MIT.
- The other aspect is that you can include Lab-like exercises – sandbox – for learners to apply concepts that they have learned such as this one for a electric circuits. Video Courtesy of edX/MIT.