ODL Engineering Update

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

these slides: http://tinyurl.com/odleng-update
project status: http://tinyurl.com/odleng-projects


the foreseeable future

  • LORE
  • CCX
  • Teacher Portal
  • Annotations
  • SGA
  • STAR CellBio
  • Residential

LORE

Learning Objects Repository for Education

  • Version 0.12.0 released on 10/27/2015
  • All basic features complete:
    • course import
    • faceted search
    • metadata editing
    • preview
    • export


LORE

  • more users
  • performance improvements
  • bug fixes
  • analytics integration
  • persistent metadata
  • versioning
  • better edX & studio integration


CCX

Custom Courses on edX

  • in production now on edge.edx.org and edx.org
  • still waiting for analytics
  • working on gradebook improvements
  • scheduling fixes
  • better visibility for instructors


Teacher Portal

one stop shopping

  • catalog of CCXs available for re-use
  • courses for teachers
  • OCW educator materials


Annotations

situated annotations: tied to a particular spot in a document, video, or image

Annotations

Prior art in edX

Annotations

Text & Video Prototype

  • evaluating Student Notes API for annotation store
  • evaluating Discussion API for comments


SGA

Staff-graded assignments

  • XBlock now part of edx.org
  • not recommended at MOOC-scale
  • workflow improvements learned from 24.118x


STAR Cell Bio

  • stable sample exercises released
  • working on "Assignment Builder" for instructors


MITX Residential

  • next edX release 'Dogwood' delayed
  • MITx on IS&T
  • PDF
  • improved Stellar integration
  • What else?


Further out

ODL Product Council

  • MIT online learning portal
  • persistent access to residential MITx content
  • course atlas
  • anonymous MITx / OCW interactive