Project Greenfield aims to enhance MIT's OpenCourseWare (OCW) by experimenting with interactive tools and innovative browsing mechanisms to improve accessibility and engagement with educational resources. It proposes customizable playlists, improved video player functionalities, and integrated recommendation systems based on user interactions to enrich the OCW experience. The initiative focuses on developing experimental features that allow users to manage their own learning, contribute to discussions, and navigate content socially.

1. Project GreenfieldA New Way of Thinking aboutOpenCourseWare andOpen Educational Resources for MITExtending the OCW Experience in the OCW Sandbox1Brandon Muramatsu, mura@mit.eduM.S. Vijay Kumar, Jeffrey Merriman, Peter WilkinsMIT Office of Educational Innovation and TechnologyCitation: Muramatsu, B., Kumar, M.S., Merriman, J., Wilkins, P. (2010). Project Greenfield: A New Way of Thinking about OpenCourseWare and Open Educational Resources for MIT. Presented at OpenCourseWare Consortium Global 2010: Hanoi, Vietnam, May 5, 2010.

2. The MIT Office for Educational Innovation and TechnologyDean for Undergraduate EducationSupport innovation cycleNovel uses of technologyto support teaching andlearningAcademic computing without the LMS/VLE2ExperimentTransitionIncubateServiceWe’re at MIT, but we’re not MIT OCW

3. Wouldn’t it be great ifMIT OCW…?3

4. What might be possiblewith MIT OCW?Download a course?MIT OCW provides downloadsGet an RSS feed of new courses?✔ MIT OCW supplies quite a few RSS feeds4

5. What might be possiblewith MIT OCW? (cont.)Ask a question? Participate in a discussion? Remember, MIT OCW does not provide access to professorsExperimented with community-based discussions on 10 courses with OpenLearningSupport in 2004-2006

6. Currently Videolectures.netand Academic Earth support discussions/feedback for videos

7. All require(d) going to an external site5Reference: Henson, S. (May 2007). A comparative analysis of learning resources shared in aDiscussion board versus an RSS aggregator with a social component. Paper in AmericanEducational Researcher’s Association Annual Meeting 2007 Conference Proceedings, Chicago, IL.

8. What do you wish were possible with MIT OCW?Blue Sky!6

9. What do you wish were possible with MIT OCW?Digg-rank up or down courses (popularity), thumbs up, thumbs downComment on the content that’s therePoint out errors/improve the contentTranslate contentShow localizations, same content, different culture (examples)Exemplar recognition7

10. What do you wish were possible with MIT OCW? (cont.)Tag contentRSS notification for new versions of the same courseSit an exam, get credits8

11. MIT OCW is a PublicationMIT OpenCourseWare is a free publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT.OCW is not an MIT education.OCW does not grant degrees or certificates.OCW does not provide access to MIT faculty.Materials may not reflect entire content of the course.9Reference: MIT OCW. (2010). About OCW. Retrieved on May 5, 2010 from MIT OCW Website: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/about/about/index.htm

12. …but…wouldn’t it be great ifMIT OCW…?10

13. …aha!We were asking the wrong question!11What if weexperimented with MIT OCW…?flickr@microrama

14. Sure…OEIT can develop a custom copy of MIT OCWMirror of MIT OCW siteWithin boundaries of Creative Commons by-nc-saProject Greenfieldhttp://greenfield.mit.edu12flickr@microrama

15. Ok, so what do wewantto do?!?!13

16. Launching Project GreenfieldMIT Faculty have asked us about…InteractivityTools and servicesInnovative browse mechanismsOEIT’s goals are to:Support MIT faculty Experiment, to show what’s possible (e.g., Web 2.0)Prototype tools and services for published MIT OCW… all with MIT OCW course materials14

17. 3 Mini-ProjectsCustomizable playlistsImproved video and transcript integrationIntegrated recommender system15

18. Customizable Playlists for VideosExample: Walter Lewin’s Physics videosChapters and descriptionsMIT faculty want…Different descriptionsDifferent segmentsFaculty created ANDstudent createdSearch throughplaylists16MIT OCW Highlights for High Schoolhttp://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/hs/physics/8.01/8.01-f99-vl20.ramMIT Faculty: Peter Dourmashkin, Physics

19. Customizable Playlists (cont.)Building blocks are there for some videos(e.g., Classical Mechanics)What’s needed?Modern video player(MIT OCW is also working on this)Tools to create chapters/bookmarksVideo player to watch the videos17

20. Improved Video PlayersAll MIT OCW videos have 99% accurate transcriptsDisplayed as captions on YouTubeAvailable to view/download on OCW sitePlayback and display on MIT OCW website can be improvedEmbedded video and transcript as HTMLTranscript search not linked to playback18

21. SpokenMedia Player and MIT OCW19

22. Integrated RecommenderRecommender relates contentMIT OCW Courses -> MIT OCW CoursesMIT OCW Courses <-> OERsBased on Folksemantic.com/OER RecommenderCurrently overlay of OCW/OER sites20MIT Faculty: Dave Pritchard, Physics & Haynes Miller, Mathematics

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24. Some other thoughts…Smart cut and paste with reuse trackingIntrasitehyperlinking (link within the site)Import into WordPress, Moodle22

25. CAPRETT(Cut and Paste Reuse Tracking Tool)Cut and paste from a lecture? Simple cut and paste supported from HTML pages

26. Simple cut and paste possible from PDF/Word/etc.

27. What about tynt.com-style support

28. When the user highlights text, an automatic linkback to exact location in original page is created

29. Extend tynt.com to add attribution information automatically and pasted with text23Reference: Muramatsu, B. (2009, August 27). Plagiarism is Good™ Revisited. Retrieved on May 5, 2010 from Brandon Muramatsu’s Website: http://www.mura.org/2009/08/plagiarism-is-good-revisited/

30. Tynt Insight24Source: tynt.com

31. IntrasiteHyperlinking(Link within the site)Cross-reference key terms internally across all OCW contentService:

32. Could limit to OCW content, or expand to selected/all OER repositories

33. Could link to Wikipedia for definitions

34. Development:

35. Needs subject list, key terms, controlled vocabulary

36. Testing with content experts for relevance of search results25

37. IntrasiteHyperlinking (cont.)26

38. Ok, let’s think big again…27

39. What do you now wish were possible with MIT OCW?IMS LTI Support to write applications around contentTake bits from courses, and save/paste in a new course framework, including attribution and link – playlist of any kind of course materialsStudents can create their own environment and arrange content from different courses and add personal notes/commentsAdd own annotations to course materials28

40. What do you now wish were possible with MIT OCW?Framework to show curriculum tracks (pre-requisites, co-requisites)Trace individual content through varieties of courses, this information builds across courses (flash forward/flash back)Tools to allow students to manage their own learning—where they’ve been and where they’re going—saved in your own user account, portfolio-plusSocial community around content (learn with, ask questions, motivate, support network)Recognition (formal or informal) for going through the materials29

41. What do you now wish were possible with MIT OCW?Visual map of the content, and similarities between materials, and way to navigate through those materialsLet the way to navigate through the map be social (capture user activity, and suggest pathways)30

42. Project Greenfieldhttp://greenfield.mit.edu31Brandon Muramatsu, mura@mit.eduM.S. Vijay Kumar, Jeffrey Merriman, Peter WilkinsMIT Office of Educational Innovation and Technology