Presented by Brandon Muramatsu and M.S. Vijay Kumar at KFUPM on August 27, 2014

1. Workshop: Emerging Possibilities and
Takeaways for KFUPM
M.S. Vijay Kumar, vkumar@mit.edu
Brandon Muramatsu, mura@mit.edu
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Cite as: Kumar, V. & Muramatsu, B. (2014d, August). Emerging possibilities and takeaways for KFUPM.
Workshop presented at KFUPM. Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
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2. Agenda
 Part 1: Introduction
 Part 2: Personal EdTech Action Plan
 Part 3: Core Education Principles at KFUPM
 Break
 Part 4: Recommendations for KFUPM
 Part 5: Conclusion
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3. Part 1: Introduction
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4. Vijay’s Background
 B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering, M.S. in Industrial
Management & Ed.D. in Future Studies in Education
 Research in educational technology innovation diffusion
 Taught courses in introductory programming, data
communications, instructional computing, future
studies, and teacher education
 30+ years in EdTech – Developing, managing, &
innovating educational uses of Information
Technologies
 10+ years in Open Education: Open Educational Resources and
OpenCourseWare
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5. Brandon’s Background
 B.S. & M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
 Taught multimedia design and open education
 20 years in EdTech
 ~10 years in educational digital libraries: Collections, nationwide
collaborations, quality and peer review
 10+ years in Open Education: Open Educational Resources and
OpenCourseWare
 “Been There, Done That”
 Multimedia courseware design and course support, course design,
video production software design, digital libraries, metadata,
learning objects, open educational resources/OpenCourseWare,
…
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6. Goals & Objectives for the Workshops
 Help you understand how we think about
educational technologies, and how they support
pedagogy and learning
 See some examples of educational technologies, to
help you understand a range of possibilities
 Identify how KFUPM can implement online/digital
learning
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7. Goals for this Afternoon
 Review Personal EdTech Action Plans
 Identify KFUPM’s core education principles
 Draft recommendations on online / digital learning
to be presented to KFUPM
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8. Part 2: Personal EdTech Action
Plan Report
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9. Homework: Personal EdTech Action Plan
 Propose an activity to integrate educational
technology in your course
 Describe the educational activity of interest
 What would it take?
 Support staff, infrastructure, release time, etc.
 How would you know if you’re successful?
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10. 10
Students &
Faculty
Proximity
MIT’s core advantages are its reputation and its ability to bring together
world-class students and faculty
Inseparability of
education and
research
The faculty value both research and teaching highly, and would be
uncomfortable with proposals that decrease the research emphasis
Research and teaching should continue to be linked and
synergistic
Improving the quality of the on-campus experience is a high priority
Uniqueness
of the MIT
community
Preserving the quality of the MIT community is a high priority, and
strengthening it is desirable
MIT is unwilling to compromise on student standards for enrollment in
degree programs
Intimate student/faculty interactions should be preserved and
enhanced
Faculty time is the limiting resource in innovation
MIT values Excellence: MIT should be an intellectual leader in all of its chosen fields
Entrepreneurship: The culture of entrepreneurship and faculty autonomy
must be preserved
Single- class faculty: Any expansion of the faculty would need to adhere
to MIT’s relatively tight definition of faculty, in which all faculty
participate in teaching, research and service.
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11. Part 3: KFUPM’s Core Education
Principles
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12. KFUPM’s Core Education Principles…
 Fill in!
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13. Break
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14. Part 3: Advising KFUPM
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15. Advising KFUPM
 What should KFUPM do with respect to online /
digital learning?
 Focus on introductory courses?
 Outside audiences?
 What resources and support are needed?
 Professional development?
 Incentivizing faculty?
 Educational support
 Recommend a set of institutional experiments for
KFUPM?
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16. Part 5: Conclusion
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17. Participant’s Takeaways
 Fill in!
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18. Workshop: Emerging Possibilities and
Takeaways for KFUPM
M.S. Vijay Kumar, vkumar@mit.edu
Brandon Muramatsu, mura@mit.edu
Cite as: Kumar, V. & Muramatsu, B. (2014d, August). Emerging possibilities and takeaways for KFUPM.
Workshop presented at KFUPM. Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
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