Meg Schedel and Jennifer Adams - SUNY’s First Coursera MOOC: More than the Front Row Experience

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SUNY’S FIRST COURSERA MOOCSUNY’S

Row ExperienceBeyond the Front

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MARGARET SCHEDEL

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MARGARET SCHEDELAssistant Professor of Music at Stony Brook University

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Core faculty in cDACT - the Consortium for Digital Arts Culture and Technology

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Half my teaching is for Music (MUS) and half for cDACT (CDT)

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Composer who uses the computer to augment performances through interactive sound and visuals. Track artistic features using sensors, video cameras and microphones

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Composer who uses the computer to augment performances through interactive sound and visuals. Track artistic features using sensors, video cameras and microphones

Been teaching ARS/MUS/THR now CDT 208 for six years - it’s been taught at SBU for over 15 years

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Consortium forDigital Arts, Culture

and Technology

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CHANGES TO COURSE

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CHANGES TO COURSEHad to find open source or free software

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Processing already open source

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Photoshop / Gimp

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Photoshop / Gimp

Logic / Soundation and Audacity

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Photoshop / Gimp


Double the work

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Photoshop / Gimp


Double the work

I would do it again for any course I thought would work as a MOOC

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CHANGES TO COURSE

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CHANGES TO COURSERubrics for peer grading

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Quizzes

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Quizzes

More detail

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Quizzes

More detail

Just flipping the classroom meant we could explain some things in person

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Quizzes

More detail


ePortfolio integration

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Quizzes

More detail



No way to “save” work in the Coursera platform

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Quizzes

More detail



No way to “save” work in the Coursera platform

Wanted to show competency-based learning

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MISCONCEPTIONS

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MISCONCEPTIONSThought we would just record the screen with us talking over it

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Coursera did a study and courses without video of the professor had very poor student response

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Used an intro video with full screen for each week and then shrank“talking heads” into the corner of powerpoint

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Software demonstrations were just screen capture with narration (which is surprisingly hard to do!)

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Thought we would use a large tablet screen to transition into the software

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The screen didn’t read at all on camera so we just made stand-alone software videos

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The screen didn’t read at all on camera so we just made stand-alone software videos

YouTube Office hours not well-attended 17

COURSERA CONCERNS

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COURSERA CONCERNSWorried about the length - 15 weeks

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Excited / nervous about it being a real college class - level of difficulty and workload

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Concerned about production - not using a professional studio

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Pleasantly shocked by the quality of first set of videos

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Pleasantly shocked by the quality of first set of videos

They didn’t see our REAL first set

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SOFTWARE

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SOFTWARE MacBook Pro

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Keynote - presentation software with custom templates

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Photoshop - logo design, and some animation

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Final Cut - video editing software

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Logic - audio editing software

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Screenflick - screen capture website

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Teleprompter website - faster and easier than iPad software

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Teleprompter website - faster and easier than iPad software

Shot in my sound-proofed computer music studio

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HARDWARE

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HARDWARE Video

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HARDWARE Video

Panasonic GH2 video camera with tripod

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HARDWARE Video


2-piece light kit

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HARDWARE Video


2-piece light kit

iPhone for extra shots

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HARDWARE Video


2-piece light kit


Audio

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HARDWARE Video


2-piece light kit


Audio

Overhead Mic

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HARDWARE Video


2-piece light kit


Audio

Overhead Mic

Boom Tripod

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HARDWARE Video


2-piece light kit


Audio

Overhead Mic

Boom Tripod

Zoom Recorder

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HARDWARE Video


2-piece light kit


Audio

Overhead Mic

Boom Tripod

Zoom Recorder

USB Snowball mic for voice-overs

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HARDWARE Video


2-piece light kit


Audio

Overhead Mic

Boom Tripod

Zoom Recorder

USB Snowball mic for voice-overs

Took about 10 hours of shooting and editing for each week of content20

PRODUCTION VALUES

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PRODUCTION VALUESShort videos - no more than 8 minutes

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Read from teleprompter to prevent pauses

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took a while to sound natural and enthusiastic when reading

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teleprompter was necessary to sound professional

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Compressed audio to prevent sentences from trailing off in volume

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Compressed audio to prevent sentences from trailing off in volume

Framed screen shots and made overlays to prevent distractions

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LEARNED

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LEARNEDto label the videos with the subject and the length

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how important subtitles are

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to try to modulate responses

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when something goes wrong in front of 6,500 students it’s difficult not to care - I was fixing problems at 3am

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Coursera really cares and will help however they can

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Coursera really cares and will help however they can

that rubrics are important to my in-person students

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PEOPLE

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PEOPLEStudents

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PEOPLEStudents

Grad TA’s Catherine and Tim who created content for the image and programming portions and edited the videos

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PEOPLEStudents


Undergrad Michelle who made sure the shots looked right

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PEOPLEStudents



TLT at SBU

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PEOPLEStudents



TLT at SBU

Catherine Scott - the rubric queen

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PEOPLEStudents



TLT at SBU


Patricia Aceves - syllabus and learning outcomes

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PEOPLEStudents



TLT at SBU



Jennifer Adams - all things Coursera and ePortfolio

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PEOPLEStudents



TLT at SBU




SUNY

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PEOPLEStudents



TLT at SBU




SUNY

Lisa Stephens - high-level coordinator 23

JENNIFER ADAMS

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COURSERA AS LMS

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CONTROLLING THE LOOK

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CONTENT MANAGEMENT

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LECTURE RECORDING STATUS

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COMMUNICATIONS

Students wanted more announcements

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FORUMS/PARTICIPATION

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FORUM - PEER TUTORING

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FORUMS - NATIVE LANGUAGES/CULTURES

Our Forums contained:

Chinese BrazilianCape Town

UkrainePolish

CalifornianSkype

& FacebookStudy Groups

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CLEAR RUBRICS =GOOD PEER ASSESSMENT

CRITERIA Needs Improvement (1) Competent (2) Proficient (3)

Assignment runs without errors. (3 points) Assignment does not run. Assignment partially runs.

Assignment runs without errors.

Quantity of Required Objects (3 points)

Assignment contains fewer than 15 unique objects.

Assignment contains 15-19 unique objects.

Assignment contains 20 or more unique objects.

Quantity of Sentences Within the Artistic Description. (3 points)

Assignment does not contain an artistic description.

Assignment includes only one sentence within the artistic description.

Assignment includes 2 or more sentences within the artistic description.

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FACE 2 FACE INTERACTIONS

Students in class used projects from the MOOC to begin the first attempts at a formal critique.

In class students who had excused absences were able to complete work inside the MOOC that would otherwise have

been completed F2F.

In class students watched the videos from the MOOC an average of two times each.

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OH MY...5+10*((quiz27)/10+(quiz29)/15+(quiz43)/15+(quiz59)/6+(quiz83)/9+(quiz105)/8+(quiz125)/10+(quiz147)/8+(quiz161)/8+(quiz177)/10+(quiz179)/6+(quiz219)/10+(quiz233)/11+(quiz265)/5)/14+ 20*sum_top_k_of_n(12, (pg3)/9, (pg6)/15, (pg8)/15, (pg9)/9, (pg10)/9, (pg11)/9, (pg13)/6, (pg14)/3, (pg16)/3, (pg17)/12, (pg18)/24, (pg20)/12, (pg21)/15, (pg22)/12)/12+pg12/21*20+pg24/30*20+pg26/27*25+5*pg25/9

This is the formula to calculate whether the student earned a certificate of completion - 75-92%or a certificate of distinction 93% or higher

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STUDENT SATISFACTION

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STUDENT RETENTION

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OUTCOMES/EVIDENCE

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SAMPLES

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SURVEY COMMENTS

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SURVEY COMMENTS

I think that your involvement in the forums makes such a large difference!

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SURVEY COMMENTS


fantastic and unique content, delivered in an interesting way, with real attempt to teach design concept, giving in depth understanding to a community of hugely varying skills. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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SURVEY COMMENTS



I think that this MOOC is great... I would like to do more MOOCs about this topics in Stony Brook

University. Thank you very much for share your knowledge with me.

Greetings from Spain.

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SURVEY COMMENTS



I think that this MOOC is great... I would like to do more MOOCs about this topics in Stony Brook

University. Thank you very much for share your knowledge with me.

Greetings from Spain.

If the instructor teaches any course in

the future, I ill sign up for it. And If I see any class offered by Stony Brook, I'll enroll in it!

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LISA STEPHENS

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LISA STEPHENS SUNY Senior Strategist for Academic Innovation

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SUNY Coursera Development Group

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OPEN SUNY Advisory Committee

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FAQ’s

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FAQ’s

http://commons.suny.edu/opensuny/about/the-provosts-open-suny-advisory-committee

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OPEN SUNY/COURSERA FAQ

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