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Recording:
Video: https://us02webdrive.zoomgoogle.uscom/file/meetingd/register/tZcrce6vqT0oHNU_K1v7y37yo8rrwZGCe5O3
Date and Time
Monday, November 13, 1pm ET | 6pm UTC17dSvdW7prM8CXPDZm7j0CcPSc4fwWDzg/view?usp=drive_link
Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Eip15r7LecgTmGJugn-gJFC8wJDzdEo3/view?usp=drive_link
Meeting Minutes
For this month's agenda, we'll be having an open "brown bag" style session. Attendees can have up to 5 minutes to present on something they've built in an edX course that they are proud ofwe’ll be discussing language courses. Language courses present very fundamental challenges to the MOOC format: Mastery, Assessment integrity, student collaboration, verbal and auditory media, and more!
Hear from Haohsiang Lao, Director of the Chinese Language Program at MIT about his experiences and lessons learned teaching Chinese language MOOCs.
1:00 - 1:05: Welcome and Introduction
1:05 - 1:25: Lessons from Language MOOCs, Dr. Haohsiang Lao, Director of the Chinese Language Program at MIT
MITx - Chinese Language in Culture
4 skills in learning a foreign language:
Speaking
Reading
Listening
Writing
Elements of the MITx Chinese Language courses
Storytelling – keeps good amount of returning students
Linked textbooks with MOOC course
Live sessions - 3 live sessions per week
Drill session
Course involves three types of videos:
Animation video
“Real-world” conversational video
Lecture video
Fact VS Act
Fact – students can do self study, we put it into the materials that the students can study on their own
Act – drill session or live session
Appearance of chatGPT – ChatGPT can act as guide for speaking and writing skills
Microsoft Edge – has a wide variety of pronunciation variations, it provides at least 12 versions of native speaker
1:25 - 1:40: Q&A
What kind of evaluative tools are you using to document your students? - Arthur Schneider
Final oral report – students submit an audio that covers a couple of topics
How many totals get the certificate, and how many total audits?
3. What are some examples of the storytelling you use, and how do you set that up in these courses? – John Swope
Do you have any kind of flashcards or space repetition incorporated into the courses yet? And if you do, of what kind? And if you don't, have you found that to be a problem? – Jeremy Bowman
Do you have any wish list items for the open edX that you want to improve or scale? – John Swope
Is AI integrated into the system at all? Or do students have to have their own accounts? – Kim Welch
Students use their own (for now)
1:40 - 1:50: Polling for Future sessions
Jamboard shared to determine future priorities: https://jamboard.google.com/d/1lYLuj5qN2aHD-kd_Gzt91p0mYg726pfWQK4I-62WwRc/edit?usp=sharing
1:50 - 2:00: Open Agenda