Kathi Fletcher Interview Notes - August 26, 2009: Difference between revisions
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*Focus: adoption and community-building for Collaborative Statistics textbook | *Focus: adoption and community-building for Collaborative Statistics textbook | ||
*Use existing Community of Practice reviewing materials through MERLOT | *Use existing Community of Practice reviewing materials through MERLOT | ||
**MERLOT reviews are not connected to the materials themselves | **[http://merlot.org MERLOT] reviews are not connected to the materials themselves | ||
**Put those reviews right on the material's page on the Connexions platform | **Put those reviews right on the material's page on the Connexions platform | ||
**THEN, a lens could show / direct users to all content reviewed on MERLOT | **THEN, a lens could show / direct users to all content reviewed on MERLOT |
Latest revision as of 16:52, 26 August 2009
Conducted with Erhardt Graeff via telephone on August 26, 2009, concerning adoption policies and learning assessments of educational resources (textbooks) in Texas and elsewhere.
Interviewee
- Kathi Fletcher
- Project Manager, Connexions
- Email: kef [at] rice [dot] edu
Notes
Two Methods to track Adoption currently (Collaborative Statistics textbook model)
- CCCOER community can track via Open Textbook Project
- Adopters can directly contact Authors
- Connexions platform has 'E-mail the author' link on each page
- BUT, authors can remove this link
Siyavula South African K-12 EM Project on Connexions
- Uses lenses for all of its content
- Includes discussion forums for each module to offer place for notes on adoption and feedback
- KEY PROBLEM: Need something more Concrete to Track Usage/Adoption
- Need a more integrated tracker into CNX systems
- Adoption notes/pages might still be skipped
- Partly just a place for feedback and support (how are people using this / remixing this)
Toward Learning Assessments for EM
- How do we “close the loop” ?
- MAYBE: “Use this module and then take this quiz”
- NEXT STEP (?): system suggest additional content based on assessment or survey response
- K-12: assessment is not built in / adoption is simply based on standards (if it fits the mold then it is recommended)
- We don't know how much a printed textbook is used in a classroom because there are no automatic statistics for analytics of 'page views', 'time using the medium', etc.
- Online Materials can track usage for assessment
NIH Grant to Bridge Gap in Review Process and Content Platform (not awarded)
- Focus: adoption and community-building for Collaborative Statistics textbook
- Use existing Community of Practice reviewing materials through MERLOT
- MERLOT reviews are not connected to the materials themselves
- Put those reviews right on the material's page on the Connexions platform
- THEN, a lens could show / direct users to all content reviewed on MERLOT
- PROBLEM WITH GRANT
- Open content does have as much support material: question banks, supplementary activities, etc.
- A single author on Connexions can't produce this additional content/material
- Reviewers didn't thought it foolhardy to think that contributors would rate and review content, and then ALSO produce supplementary content
Missing Technical Pieces for OER
- There is no great software that works in every system that would allow a user to ask a content author questions and then add metadata to those questions
- Tech delivery problem in teachers wanting answer-keys that only they have access to
- Could you have questions banks with closed answer keys?
- Then, do you sell access? OER Issue.
Connexions Statistics
- Site usage generally follows North American educational calendar
- Connexions uses statistics for performance and utilization status
- Tracking Content Groups
- Collaborative Statistics textbook data
- Open Textbook Project uses Google Analytics tracking
- See usage over time as it gets more adoption
- Graph of Fall to Spring semester 2008-09 shows usage increase / reflects greater adoption
- Not represented in aggregate statistics for whole site
- National Instruments use their lenses to chart usage of their tools
- They prioritize time to develop the more popular ones
- SIDE NOTE: They also support a few authors doing relevant work on Connexions
- Collaborative Statistics textbook data
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