A pathway in Open Teaching

Please cite as:

Barba, Lorena A. (2016): A pathway in Open Teaching. figshare.
https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.2068182.v1

This slide deck gives an overview of Prof. Barba's track record in open teaching: creating open educational resources for several years in many platforms.

Prof. Barba's collections on Boston University's iTunes U are consistently (and by a large margin) the top downloads of the channel. Her course videos on YouTube (on Computational Fluid Dynamics) have more than 400,000 views (checked January 2016).

She has created OER not only on iTunes U and YouTube, but also on TED-Ed and lately on GitHub, where her collections of IPython Notebooks (a.k.a., Jupyter) have many hundreds of users (as reflected by forks on GitHub).

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1. A pathway in Open Teaching
   Prof. Lorena A. Barba
   Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
   The George Washington University
   January 2016
   

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2. http://lorenabarba.com
   

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3. Please visit the Barba group website.
   Teaching history:
   2004–2008 University of Bristol, UK
   2008–2013 Boston University, USA
   2013—current: George Washington University, USA
   

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4. At BU, all courses taught by Prof. Barba
   produced OER collections on the university’s
   iTunesU channel.
   

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5. http://lorenabarba.com/news/bus-top-provider-of-educational-media/
   

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6. Barba’s course collections on iTunesU were “featured” by
   Apple, alongside courses from top US universities.
   They have also been the “top downloads” for Boston
   University since their upload >5 years ago!
   

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9. This screenshot of the BU iTunesU admin page shows stats for the past 6 months.
   The first three of the top collections are Prof. Barba’s courses, summing more than
   22,000 downloads. Her downloads add to almost 90% of all the downloads in the
   Top Collections of the university, 5 years after their creation!
   

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10. After using Boston University’s iTunesU channel (2010–
    2011), Prof. Barba uploaded (revised) videos for the
    Computational Fluid Dynamics course to YouTube.
    She also shared lessons on TED-Ed, and used these OER
    for flipped-classroom teaching on campus. She blogged
    and gave talks extensively about the flipped classroom.
    

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11. Added views > 407,000 checked 01/26/2016
    

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14. Flipped classroom — on Google Trends
    Jan. 2011 Jan. 2015
    Prof. Barba taught her first flipped class in Spring 2012, before the “buzz.”
    

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15. March 8, 2012
    

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18. https://vimeo.com/62867080
    

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19. IPython Notebooks
    At the George Washington University, Prof. Barba
    initiated a new “genre” of OER, using collections of
    IPython Notebooks (a.k.a., Jupyter)—rich documents
    mixing text and computable content. (Shared under CC-BY
    on GitHub.)
    

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20. https://github.com/barbagroup/CFDPython
    

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21. One example …
    Each lesson contains
    text, figures, equations
    and executable Python
    code, providing an
    interactive learning
    experience.
    Students can change
    code and see the effects
    in the output.
    

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22. https://github.com/franktoffel/CFDPython-ES
    Now moved to:
    

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23. http://lorenabarba.com/blog/announcing-aeropython/
    

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24. Self-produced MOOC:

    “Practical Numerical Methods with Python”
    —Fall 2014
    

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25. http://openedx.seas.gwu.edu
    

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26. http://openedx.seas.gwu.edu/courses/GW/MAE6286/2014_fall/about
    

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27. The MOOC based on IPython Notebooks (a.k.a., Jupyter)
    has inspired others around the world to create similar
    OERs.
    

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28. https://github.com/pbstark/MX14
    “Nonparametric Inference,
    Auditing, and Litigation”
    Short course at XXIX International
    Forum on Statistics

    29 September–3 October 2014
    Philip B. Stark
    

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29. Prof. Juan Klopper, senior lecturer in surgery at the University of Cape Town.
    http://www.juanklopper.com
    

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31. https://github.com/rlabbe/Kalman-and-Bayesian-Filters-in-Python
    

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32. Sharing OER via
    — iTunes U
    — YouTube
    — TED-Ed
    — GitHub
    — self-hosted Open edX site
    Disseminating via
    — Twitter & self-hosted blog
    http://lorenabarba.com
    

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