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Andy Friedland, Professor of Environmental

Studies

Mike Goudzwaard, Instructional Designer

March 5, 2015

Inside Dartmouth’s First

MOOC

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• Present goals of edX and DartmouthX

• Illustrate ENVX objectives and process

• Show ENVX from student/instructor perspectives

• Share insights on student engagement

• Take your questions

Goals for Today

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• Expand access to education for

everyone

• Enhance teaching and learning on

campus and online

• To create, experiment, risk, analyze, and

learn

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Dartmo

uthX• Apply learning-at-scale to learning on

campus

• Engage global learners with Dartmouth’s

teacher-scholar faculty

• Foster active, collaborative, and

experiential learning

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On campus: every fall term for

30+ yrs

Current enrollment 60 students

Lectures, problems, energy

audit, exams

ENVS 2: Introduction to

Environmental Science

The Challenge: How to transform ENVS 2

to ENVX?

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10 weeks 6 weeks

60 students 10,000 students

65 minute lecture 6-9 minute video lectures

0 field trips farm, forest, powerplant, solar PV,

straw bale house

1-2 guest lectures 9 guest interviews

Problem sets and energy audit prompted

discussions

28 years of experience “best practices”

Colleagues down the hall colleagues, where?

Transforming the Course

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Student View

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Field Trip (5 min)

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The “Rock Snot” Case

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Check Your Understanding

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Check Your Understanding

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Ask a Question

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Weekly Quiz

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Weekly Quiz

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Human Population (Week

2)

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The Pesticide

Treadmill

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Instructor View: Studio

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Instructor View: Building

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Instructor View: Coding

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Instructor View: More Coding

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“Course Insights”

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Age Breakdown (self report)

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Education Metrics (self

report)

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Geography

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Engagement

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Is Anyone There?

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Food and Soils Discussion: A

Favorite Meal

“In general, Vietnamese foods are healthy with a lot of

raw vegetables. Vegetables are collected from the local

farm.” - NCThanh

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“Just in Time”: Your

Favorite Meal

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Live “Office Hour”

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ENVX in 30 seconds

(video)

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Andy Friedland, Professor and Instructor

Mike Goudzwaard, Instructional Designer and Co-Course

Designer

Justin Richardson, Graduate Student TA

Lucy Kammer Woolsey, Staff TA and Learning Community

Coordinator

Credits:

The Course Team

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Mike Murray, Video Producer Sawyer Broadley, Video

Editor Tom Dooley, Video Production Jacob Ebersole, TA

(Dartmouth graduate, 2014) Joby Bernstein, TA (Dartmouth

student) Karen Bieluch, Quality Control Officer

Emily Lacroix, TA (Dartmouth student) Ellen Irwin, TA

(Dartmouth graduate, 2014) Barbara DeFelice, Course

Librarian Adam Nemeroff, Instructional Designer

Credits:

The ENVX Team

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Josh Kim, Director of Digital Initiatives

Alan Cattier, Associate CIO/Director of Academic Technology

Susan Zaslaw, Director, IT Project Services Barbara Knauff,

Associate Director of Educational Technologies Jing Qi,

Learning Analytics

Credits:

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Phil Connors, Faculty at Deakin University, Australia Danielle

Allen, organic farmer and co-owner of Your Farm Rosi Kerr,

Sustainability Director, Dartmouth College Mike Wood, Solar

Engineer, Solaflect Energy Sarah Alexander, ‘14 and biofuel

entrepreneur Franny Eanet & Aaron Lamperti, owners of a

straw bale house

Justin Richardson, Dartmouth PhD candidate

Credits:

Guest Interviews

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Your Questions. . . .

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