The Penn State Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology is both an annual event and a year-round online discussion of ways that faculty are using technology to enhance teaching, learning, and research.
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This session will kick off with the audience brainstorming best practices for designing and teaching to an online audience of over 40,000 people. The presenters will then discuss the design and implementation of two of Penn State’s first MOOC offerings. The presenters will follow with their experiences preparing for and teaching to the largest audience they have ever had. Open discussion will follow.
Two of the MOOCs delivered by Penn State in 2014 were Creativity, Innovation, and Change; and Epidemics. Teams from these MOOCs share their experiences in designing, developing, and delivering their MOOC. They will each describe the highly collaborative effort it took to create their courses with teams that included faculty, instructional designers, multimedia specialists, developers, engineers, and student assistants. They will also share their lessons learned as well as future plans for continued delivery of their MOOCs.
This session explores several different mechanisms for formative assessment in MOOCs, focusing primarily on peer methods that can scale to a large number of students. Specific types of peer assessment will be covered that can also be leveraged in resident and online courses.
