Recording:
Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17dSvdW7prM8CXPDZm7j0CcPSc4fwWDzg/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 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.
[Minutes coming soon]
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
Link MOOC course
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
Grimmer video
Left-hand down 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 – guide for speaking and writing skills
Microsoft Edge – has a wide variety of pronunciation variations, it provides at least 12 versions of native speaker – aids in recruiting
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?
About 40 to 50 students participate in the trail - 2 draw sessions, one is the East coast time, the other is in Asia time
3. What are some examples of the storytelling you use, and how do you set that up in these courses? – John Swope
Students are interacting with the use of a core dialogue word, 2 or 3 main figures
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
I can always kind of like a refer tool. Basically, recordings - for all the live sessions for those students who are unable to attend
Do you have any wish list items for the open edX that you want to improve or scale? – John Swope
Assessments, should be put in line with the other assessment tools already available in other curriculums.
Is AI integrated into the system at all? Or do students have to have their own accounts? – Kim Welch
I introduced a GPT-like tool available
1:40 - 1:50: Polling for Future sessions
1:50 - 2:00: Open Agenda
@John Swope: Things I’d like to learn more about
Integrating AI and chatGPT into open edX – what kind of onboard we need to give the students
Gamification
Integrating adaptivity + AI into open edX
@John Swope: Two potential speakers lined up for the next two months, with topics:
Code assessment in open edX (Mohamed Elhayany, open HPI)
Design stimulated learning experiences using native open edX functionality (Frederick Du Bois, Construct)
@John Swope: Other priorities
The goal is to create more shareable assets based on the educators in addition to a regular recording – for folks in the other time zones
Contribute more to documentation