A pathway in Open Teaching

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

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http://lorenabarba.com

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

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

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

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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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March 8, 2012

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https://vimeo.com/62867080

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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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https://github.com/barbagroup/CFDPython

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

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

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Self-produced MOOC:  “Practical Numerical Methods with Python” —Fall 2014

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http://openedx.seas.gwu.edu

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

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

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

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

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