TeamMeeting 2013 01 Notes

OpenFE Team Meeting

January 4, 2013

This document contains lightly edited notes taken on-the-fly during a team meeting.

Evaluation

Big Picture Goals

• Lots of students working on HFOSS projects in collaboration with professionals
• Groups of faculty and students that are core contributors of HFOSS projects

Create a matrix for evaluation:

1. Key evaluation questions - questions that are on our minds. What is it that we want to know?
2. Data collection procedures - How do we find this out?
3. Measures - What are the metrics? How do you know that X has been accomplished?

Comprehensive Model for Faculty Development:

• How does this map to activities?
• Developing Comprehensive Model wasn't in the original grant, but it's a product - Related to Task 1.1

Measuring Student Learning and Engagement

• Need to be flexible about where students will engage in FOSS during their education.
• Could be within class but could also be outside a class or other extra-curricular activity
• Need to be able measure outside classroom learning as well as "incidental" learning (i.e., learning that is not directly related to topic in classoorm)
  • Will this type of learning be valued as much as inside classroom?
  • Values in the curriculum models
  • Problem solving
  • Soft skills

Workshop/POSSE

• Model how faculty can engage students in FOSS

Group Informatics

• Use trace data and make social sense of small group online activities to determine spectrum of success to failure of a community
• When group participants get information about other group participants, that is motivating
• Group informatics works to provide this

Project Evaluator: John Sener John brings evaluation experience including serving as evaluator on other NSF projects. Background highlights:

• On-line education
• NSF project evaluation including TUES and ATE
• Background in community colleges
• SLOAN Consortium
• View of evaluator as liaison between what was written in the grant and what work actually got carried out.

Goals, Objectives and Tasks

• If we were creating the proposal now, we would probably include an Objective 3.3 which would include designing and delivering a series of out-of-class/extra-curriculuar activities
• Goals 1.x map into HFOSS Faculty Development Model (new version in Dropbox with components annotated with goals)

Schedule of Tasks

Goal 1.1 Extend and refine POSSE curriculum - May 1, Participants: Coordinator - HE; All

• Need intermediate milestones
• Dates to freeze curriculum for review, review, feedback and revision
• May 1 final date for pre-POSSE activities and also evaluation

Goal 1.2 Enlist prospective POSSE participants to contribute to review and refinement of instructor preparation approach. mid-April, LP

• People who might be interested include: Alyce Brady, Revi Sterling, Clif Kussmaul,...
• Date dependent on timeline set on 1.1

Goal 3.1 Develop an online environment to support the instructor learning groups. Mid-May

• Hire student - mid Jan
• Ensemble evaluated by end of Jan
  • Integrate with Drupal (Moodle)

Goal 3.2 Facilitate connection with HFOSS projects and instructors.

• Outreach to HFOSS community - make ourselves visible in community -
  • Join an HFOSS community and make ourselves known - All
  • On the TOS list
• Move towards an HFOSS directory - end of February
  • Michelle evaluate projects/GH, SJ
  • Contact large humanitarian FOSS projects for other large players - what are these? - GH, HE
  • Plan for how to push the directory forward
• Blog post - copy NSF program director
• Get someone from an HFOSS project to come to the SIGCSE materials sprint
• TOS: Anyone from active HFOSS project going to SIGCSE?
  • Can RedHat send someone to participate?
• How do we set milestones for this?

Goal 5.1 Select several HFOSS projects and foster OpenFE participation in those projects.- All

• End of January everyone have a project that they're connected to

Goal 2.1 Conduct a POSSE workshop - May/June

• sometime the week of June 3rd - perhaps Monday/Tuesday? Drexel? Sean prefers Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday (front of week)
  • 20 attendees
  • arrangements GH
  • publicity DB - end of Jan
  • Handouts for SIGCSE
  • Announcements on TOS
  • Other Recruitment
  • Locate instructors - GH/HE
    • Possible interest: 1. RedHat, 2. TOS, 3. Joanie - invite other HFOSS folks?

Goal 2.2 Create instructor learning groups for professional development attendees - SG Goal 4.1 Collect and package existing FOSS instructional materials

• May 1 for pre-POSSE activities finalized
• LP, SJ (lead), HE (help), DB
• TOS: Possible interested people include: Clif Kussmaul, Matt Jadud, Luis Ibanez
• Align "Activity Template" with EdRepo - LP
• Need to check for overlap with POSSE curriculum development

Goal 4.4 Pilot test OpenFE activities for the CS Principles course - GH (Tammy Pirman) Goal 5.2 Create collaborations with domain experts and FOSS experts and actively advance some smaller, newer HFOSS projects.

• GNOME MouseTrap
• Perhaps Karl's museum project (too early to know)
• Explore partnering with Revi to identify possible HFOSS projects to create
  • What other projects could we as foss2serve create/generate?
• Follow-up with Jon Preston about educational games

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Faculty Workshop Planning

1. Workshop Preparation
   • Need location to post answers publicaly (see pre-workshop)
   • Need to have environment configured by May 1
   • Require people to pick a project before starting?
   • Limit participation to N people projects
2. Pre-Workshop - done by end of January
   1. Define the process for workshop and pre-work - HE
      • Allow faculty to have anonymous handles to diminish fear of failing publicly
      • 12-15 hours of pre-work
      • Use evaluation to provide evidence that an activity has been completed
      • Have participants post answers to group location where others can review
      • Phrase the pre-stuff as an onramp rather than a set of tasks or hurdles to complete
      • Should there be a schedule? Including milestones when various things are due?
   2. Decide which activities are "critical" and which are optional - HE
      • Critical activities must be completed before the workshop
      • Scaffold activities - give a date by which wiki must be done
      • Emphasize the communication tools first
      • Use communication tools to provide entre into the community so that community can support learning
        • IRC, Wiki, Piratepad, listserv,
   3. Identify sources for pre-workshop activities - HE
   4. Complete the activity template - LP - match to Dublin Core standards - GH get LP a list of Dublin core terms - http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/edrepo/index.php?title=Metadata_Recommendation_Match-ups
   5. Complete 1-2 more pre-workshop activities - SJ
3. During-Workshop
   • Curriculum topics need to be reviewed and finalized - HE/GH
   • How do you take advantage of having everyone together?
   • How do you get people to work together?
   • Need to see what we have for FOSS instructors and possible materials
   • People who might be interested include: Greg Dek, Mel, Karsten Joanie, Luis
   • Need to reschedule phone call with MRC - HE/GH
4. Post-Workshop
   • Share back
   • Evaluation of experience
   • Feedback
   • Download and install project related to small group

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Infrastructure

• How do we organize project management?
• Look at some project management tools: RedMine, Asana, Trac? - GH/SJ
• TOS:
  • Contact TOS originators to talk about changing the wiki - need higher permissions
  • Involve TOS community in the effort
  • Delay until the end of first quarter - or perhaps discuss at Pre-SIGCSE event?

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Publication/Outreach

• Need to find the right publication community
• CSCL?
  • Need strong evaluation outcomes to support more research-oriented publications
• Definitely SIGCSE, FIE, CCSC, ICSE, CSEET, Sloan?,

Goal:

• SIGCSE paper submitted August 2013 on MouseTrap
• Create a publication plan - HE/GH

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To Do List

Item	Person	Due Date	Status
Contact NSF Program Officer for OpenFE	HE/GH	1/7/13	Done
Post SIGCSE workshop to TOS	HE	1/7/13	Pending
Keep log of OpenFE activities	All	Continuing
Need a page/section on the wiki that enumerates the different opportunities for FOSS such including the extra-curricular activities	DB/LP	2/28/13
Investigate possibility of instrumenting Ensemble site	SG	??
Create evaluation instrument for workshop - Want an immediate instrument and one for 6-12 months (?) post	JS/GH	5/1/13
Create evaluation for post workshop activities to measure community	JS/SG	6/1/13
Create evaluation instrument for Pre-SIGCSE event	JS/HE	3/1/2013
Create evaluation for MouseTrap participants	JS/HE/DB	2/1/2013
Create a visual map of Goals/Objectives to Activities	JS	6/1/2013

Further Information

Links

• John's book: http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Futures-American-Education-Screen-Captured/dp/146797336X
• Contributor Mountain: http://quaid.fedorapeople.org/TOS/Practical_Open_Source_Software_Exploration/html/sn-Introduction_to_Free_and_Open_Source_Software-Climbing_Contributor_Mountain.html
• Dublin Core meta-data mapping:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/edrepo/index.php?title=Metadata_Recommendation_Match-ups

• GNOME Newcommer's Tutorial

https://live.gnome.org/NewcomersTutorial

Items in Dropbox

• Grant Proposal added "DescriptionOpenFE - submitted.doc"
• Diagram added "HFOSS Faculty Development Model_V2.doc"
• Goal annotated diagram added "HFOSS Faculty Development Model_V2_G1.doc"