TeamMeeting 2014 01 Agenda

OpenFE Team Meeting Agenda

Nassau Community College
January 23-24, 2014

Goals for this Meeting

• Assess status of the project relative to the proposal
• Plan other actions needed to stay on track with the proposal
• Plan upcoming events for SIGCSE, CCSCNE, POSSE
• Identify / summarize what has been accomplished (in part for year 2 annual report)
• Discuss process for getting stipends to faculty who developed course materials

Schedule Overview

• Thursday afternoon: Arrive; target start time of 4pm
  • Should this be 4pm at the hotel lobby or at NCC?
• Casual / Working dinner
• Work until 8 or 9 Thursday evening
• Work again on Friday, with a goal of continuing until 3pm (or later?) depending on when people need to travel to get home.

Topics:

Measurement

• Review JS' mapping and figure out what we need to track exactly:
  • Student perception of work product quality
  • Number of student HFOSS contributions
  • What else? Need to go through the mapping and figure out what instruments we need to capture this information.
• Status of instruments
• Use of CAT or other validated instruments
• Direct measurement of learning
• Measuring Student Learning and Engagement
• How to measure stage 3 activity
• One year post survey for POSSE alum
• Tracking of individual POSSE alums and what they do with HFOSS

POSSE

• Planning for 2014
• Date and location
  • Need to update the SIGCSE 2014 page with the correct dates [1]
• Advertising
• Team attendees and instructors
• Having POSSE alums attend and present (or should this be a SIGCSE pre-event feature)
• Revising contents
• Does the 3 stage model work?
• How to support stage 3 faculty
• Plan more organized faculty mentoring?
• Red Hat support?

Teaching materials

• How well have we packaged what we have?
• How do we create/collect more materials?
• Learning materials sprint
• How do we pay faculty members?
  • Do we do partial payment when faculty have materials but haven't tested them yet?
  • What is the billing mechanism?

Publications

• TOCE special issue on Team Projects in Computing Education
  • April 1st deadline for abstract, August 1st deadline for paper
• What other targets do we have?

Group Informatics

• Status and development plan
• How to get adoption

Budget

• Review of budget status

4:00	Schedule review and adjustment
5:00	Status relative to proposal
6:00	Discussion of results and HFOSS status overall
7:00	Break
7:15	Spring event planning - task list
8:00	Course materials status assessment
9:00	Return to hotel or home