All Answers: Re: [pakgrid] Using MOOCs inside a normal class

Wednesday, 6 March 2013

Re: [pakgrid] Using MOOCs inside a normal class

Dear Affan,

It is really good to hear about your experience. At Air University our Dean Dr. Abdullah Sadiq and CS Head of Department Dr. Asad are very committed to using MOOC in our courses. Dr. Abdullah Sadiq uses MIT lectures on Physics in his Physics 101 courses. I think Dr. Asad uses "Image and video processing: From Mars to Hollywood with a stop at the hospital by Guillermo Sapiro from Duke university in his image processing course.

Our compilers course follows compilers course from Stanford.

I am following "Networks: Friends, Money and Bytes" from Princeton and SNA from Michigan for a new course titled "Social Network Analysis"

For my Algorithm Analysis course I am following an older version (2011) of Stanford course on Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 1 by Tim Roughgarden.

Some of our students are following Stat 101 from Udacity and Database course from Stanford on their own.

With Regards
Qasim
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From: Affan S <affan.syed.usc@gmail.com>
To: pakgrid@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, March 1, 2013 11:23 AM
Subject: [pakgrid] Using MOOCs inside a normal class

Dear all,
I am sharing the results of a survey I collected where I experimented with the concept of using online courses (coursera, edX, udacity etc) inside a normal class room [1].

The idea was to consider how academia can stay relevant in the face of these exceptionally well taught courses, and how we can incorporate the results into course structure of the future.

This experimental study was part of a course on concurrent and distributed systems that I am teaching at FAST-NU, Islamabad. Since there is no 1-1 mapping to a course online, I chose to use the recently finished course from Stanford on intro to computer networks. We cover introductory lectures to networking concepts that I usually give to get them ready for some distributed system concepts (DNS and Naming).

I regularly had a 40 min of video lecture content that I would stop every so often to explain some interesting aspects, or to emphasize. We would also have a quiz and detailed Q&A about the lecture given by Phil and Nick, and found the students remained quite interested and motivated. For the students feedback on the experiment, please look at link below [1]. I hope sharing these results will spurn greater interest in taking this line up and tweaking it to get the maximum utilization of this amazing trend.

This effort was spurned by an online discussion with Dr. Qasim Sheikh, but all credit goes to the Honorable Rector of FAST, Dr. Ameer, for taking a personal interest and giving me sanction to run videos in my normal course.

Regards,

Affan

http://www.isb.nu.edu.pk/affan/

[1] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1nDrTB-UsIySgFT4WJuof-xxSj56SX6rp_Y_-8cUs-no/viewanalytics