Friday 5th July

Open Platforms for pedagogical innovation
Piotr Mitros
Chief Scientist, edX

Mentioned the Concord Consortium (STEM resource finder)

Lots of open learning analytics - an integrated and modularised platform (2011) SIemens et al

What is edX?

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research                      <--->      quality       <--->          access                 links to research

understanding learning     improve learning      educate 1 billion people


What is edX Learning Sciences?

• MITx platform
• open-ended grading
• insights
• crowdsourcing

Says in the beginning he didn't know what he was doing, but had  two and a half months before students were enrolled. example of Circuits and Electronics

Goal: lightweight pedagogical innovations

Similar goals

• ridiculously easy to use
• you don't need your sysadmin - you cannot take down the LMS
• data access without PII
• build a community - open standard (not just edX)

• normalisation
• self-assessment
• randomised problems
• stop feature
• multistage adaptive testing 

missing piece - standard way to process data.

Offline analysis (lots of graphs)

dashboards - analyse what student has done, respond with a hint

Groupwork

What have people got out of the week?

Great Google doc created here