wwwkoondiscom Galen T Pickett Thomas Gredig Zvonimir Hlousek Chuhee Kwon James Kisiel CSU Long Beach Physics and Astronomy Outline Motivation Engineering a curriculum F2F Engineering a curriculum Online ID: 584419
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SOCIAL Physics:
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Galen T. Pickett, Thomas Gredig, Zvonimir Hlousek, Chuhee Kwon, James KisielCSU Long Beach, Physics and AstronomySlide2
OutlineMotivationEngineering a curriculum: F2FEngineering a curriculum: OnlineTeamwork: Social HomeworkOnline Laboratory: Authentic STEMCO Redesign ProjectConclusionSlide3
MotivationCSU Long Beach36,000 students, many first-generation, low-income
STEM Gateway for Long Beach90,000 applied for 5,000 spots.Slide4
CSU Long Beach Physics11 TT Faculty3-year average, 18 undergrad degrees / 12 MS degreesUD gateway courseAPSMinority Bridge ProgramPhysTEC Legacy SiteSlide5
Motivation for PhysicsImportant to get it right!Better careers for studentsSpecial skills, better problemsExistence and justification.Recruit physics majors from introductory physicsDouble majorsIf we don’t, who will?We have a successful course F2F … export it.Slide6
Existing CoursePhysics for Scientists and Engineers (Mechanics)Not a “bottleneck” … an “accelerant”.Slide7
Engineering a CurriculumMatter and InteractionsPhysics the way physicists do itFormal reasoningDerive results, then applyPhysical Problem SolvingMomentum / Energy / LSlide8
Engineering a PedagogyLarge lecture format: Hall of ScienceI>ClickerCooperative InteractiveEngagingSlide9
Honors SectionsSupport high performing studentsSCALE-UP classrooms, both 151 and 152
Long Beach Register, 2/5/14Slide10
Engineering Student SupportLearning Assistants “Undergrad TA’s”Slide11
…but…Homework should be teaching physics36% of exam performance “explained” by homework (correlations, per student)Strengthen correlation exam <-> homework?Slide12
Koondis.comZvonimir Hlousek, Thomas Gredig …and me.CO incubation project.Slide13
Social Homework / Koondis.comAsync / Groups / Roles / Rotation / Any Content
Social Media overlay / “like” “thanks”Slide14
Instructor WorkflowAssign groups automatically (10 min, presemester)Rotate “roles” week to weekCustom: Director, Investigator, Executive, SkepticAssign problem to group (5 min)Grading posts, likes, thanks -> grades (5 min)600 students in 10 courses now (lower / upper division, lecture, laboratory)Slide15
Instructor FeedbackSlide16
Teamwork: Social HomeworkAsynchronous teams (Kisiel NARST 2013)Slide17
Grades and SHW (Kisiel)Slide18
Accidental ExperimentSpring 2012 –> Spring 2013, add SHWCorrelations … significant at p<10^(-4)Homework (finally) helps exam performance.Slide19
Mechanisms?Grit: Duckworth … “how is failure dealt with”Normalizing and metacognitionEveryone sees everyone’s workEveryone is good at somethingBest students strugglePraise … “like” “thanks”Overlapping, reinforcing effectsPER research project … why does this work?Slide20
Fully Online Mechanics Same Homework as Brick-and-MortarSocial Homework to support problem solvingSocial Homework: collaborate in experiment designSocial Homework: portion of exams“GLUE”Slide21
Laboratory: Authentic STEMSocial Homework Groups Design Experiments“Tracker” used to perform measurementsExperiments independently verified / groupsGroups decide / construct their own meaningPh.D. – level scientist required to judgeSlide22
Online Laboratory3-week cycle:Propose experiment (in group), RFPExperiment performedResults confirmedRequires a Professor – by design60 seats so far, 100 in Spring 2015Three sections worth of capacity relieved (24 lab sections now, M-F 7am-10pm)Slide23
CSU CO Redesign Project“Social Homework” is a “Proven Practice”Fall 2014, redesign courses to use toolRun course with Koondis in Spring3 units (at replacement rate, or $$$)Department chairs will approve “RFP”.This year, CO pays all student fees ($35 / student) … ANYONE in CSU who adopts.Slide24
ConclusionSocial Homework: MOOC GlueSocial Homework: Experiment as Social ActivityStudents depend on each otherCourseCraft: positive interdependence
Gerry Hanley, Asst. Chancellor