TeamMeeting 2013 01 Notes

OpenFE Team Meeting

January 4, 2013

Who is John Sener?

• On-line education
• Evaluates NSF projects - mostly ATE
• Background in community colleges
• SLOAN foundation
• View of evaluator as liaison between what was written in the grant and what work actually got carried out.

Evaluation

• Big Picture: Lots of students working on HFOSS projects in collaboration with professionals
• Groups of students that are leaders of FOSS 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

• Not sure where students will engage in FOSS during their education.
• Could be within class but could also be 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 it 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

• Looking at 'Evaluation' section of OpenFE Description*

   Keep a log of things we do

   Where? Wiki? Pirate pad?

Goals, Objectives and Tasks:

   If we were creating the proposal now, we would include 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)

ties/Tasks JS Schedule of Tasks: 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 

1.2 Enlist prospective POSSE participants to contribute to review and refinement of instructor preparation approach. mid-April, LP, Alyce Brady? SJ, Revi Sterling, Clif Kussmaul,

   - Date dependent on timeline set on 1.1

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) 

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?

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

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
   1. RedHat, 2. TOS, 3. Joanie - invite other HFOSS folks?

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

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

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

 - GNOME MouseTrap
 - Karl's museum project?
 - Partner with Revi to identify possible HFOSS projects to create
     - What other projects could we as foss2serve create/generate?

- John Preston & educational games Faculty Workshop Planning

   Workshop Preparation

   Need location to post answers publically (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

   Pre-Workshop - done by end of January

   Mark required vs. extra-credit

   1. Define the process for workshop and pre-work 

   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? 

   2. Decide which activities are "critical" and which are optional 

   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

   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

   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

   Greg Dek

   Mel?

   Joanie?

   Karsten?

   Luis?

   Need to reschedule phone call with MRC - HE/GH

   Post-Workshop

   Share back

   Evaluation of experience

   Feedback

   Download and install project related to small group

SIGCSE Pre-Conference Event:

   Publicize - DB

Infrastructure

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

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

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	DG/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/DG	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
• Dulin 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"