Course Materials Sprint 2018

Course Materials Sprint

June 3-5, 2018

Overview: The overall goal of this project is to make a group of complete courses available to other faculty. This course sprint is part of that effort, and our intention is to emphasize activities that are more difficult to achieve when we are working individually.

Goals:

1. Review, critique, and improve syllabi for each course with particular focus on learning outcomes, course topics, and approach to learning
2. Review, critique and improve selected materials from each course (lectures, learning activities, assessments, etc)
3. Review and improve structure for packaging and disseminating each course
4. Review and improve approaches to learning evaluation
5. Discuss potential for publication of results across institutions

Pre-work:

1. Provide basic information about your course so that we can see how the set of courses relate to each other. You can do this by completing the template here
2. Make syllabus and materials available - We would like to have shared access to the current version of everyone’s course. We’ll figure out the best platform for that once we have the basic information about all the courses requested above.
3. Be prepared to provide a 25-30 minute guided tour of your course. Please include:
   1. What went well
   2. What you would change
   3. Lessons learned
4. Have at least a draft syllabus
5. Bring with you a brief overview of 2-3 key learning activities for course
   1. Provide one that works well and one or two that need improvement or need to be developed
   2. These could be materials already developed or activities that are needed
   3. Those who are still developing courses can present 2-3 activities that need to be developed

Agenda

Time	Activity
	Monday, June 4, 2018
8:45 AM	Arrive at Nassau Community College - building CCB, room 210
9:00 AM	Introductions/Orientation
9:30 AM	Introduction to Existing Courses Brief overview by those who have run or are developing a course Presentation of syllabi Discussion of learning materials selection Observations on the course
10:30 AM	Break
10:45	Introduction to Existing Courses - cont.
12:00 NOON	Lunch
1:00 PM	Brief overview of 2-3 key learning activities for course Provide one that works well and one or two that need improvement or need to be developed These could be materials already developed or activities that are needed Those who are still developing courses can present 2-3 activities that need to be developed
1:45 PM	In pairs or threes critique and/or develop materials identified above
3:00 PM	Report out
3:15 PM	Break
3:30 PM	Decide on dissemination approach Presentation of proposed structure (Greg/Heidi) Review current structure for courses on TeachingOpenSource and foss2serve Discussion/revision
4:30 PM	Evaluation Plan and Tools - review and update Materials Review (rest of afternoon) Discuss publication options Wrap-up and planning for day 2
6:00 PM	Dinner ordered in
	Tuesday, June 5, 2018
?	Breakfast on your own
9:00 AM	Packaging and Dissemination Discussion
10:30 AM	Break
10:45 AM	Packaging and Dissemination Discussion/Implementation Assessment
12:00 NOON	Lunch - Discuss what sort of support would be helpful during the course - how can TOS community help?
1:00 PM	Continue disucssion
2:00 PM	Plan steps going forward
3:00 PM	Wrap Up
3:30 PM	Adjourn

Resources

Here is a link to the course I have been presenting/revising this Summer. I will definitely be presenting this again in Summer 2019 to an anticipated class of 30-40 students and may be presenting it as well in Spring 2019 depending on student demand.

Note:

This is a first run-through and I will be continuing to revise it and extend it both this Summer and over the next few months. I will also be adding issues to the issue tracker on what needs to change over the next few semesters.

Open Source Course as taught Summer 2019 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

--Wturner 17:31, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

• Put links to resources here