Our teaching team and what to expect
发布人：王卫肖发布时间：2014-05-12 14:23:36
Our teaching team and what to expect
As we begin this course, we want to introduce the teaching team and set some expectations and context for our work together. We are thrilled that over 11,000 people have signed up for this course from around the world. It is truly humbling and inspiring to see so many people interested in this topic and coming together to learn.
Our course staff
By the end of the course, you will know our instructors very well: Brian Greenberg from the Silicon Schools Fund, Michael Horn from the Clayton Christensen Institute, and Rob Schwartz from the New Teacher Center. In addition, we want to introduce three others you won’t see on camera but who you will see in the discussion forums. First, my name is Caitrin Wright and I work at Silicon Schools Fund with Brian and am the project manager for this course. I have been working on education issues for the last ten years and specifically on blended learning for the last four years. I’m thrilled to be learning with and from all of you.
We also have two great teaching assistants (TAs) who are working with us on this course and with whom you will interact a lot. Orly Friedman is a Stanford graduate student who has taught elementary school and helped pilot a blended learning program herself. Anna Gu is a research assistant at the Christensen Institute with a background in early childhood education and bilingual education at Stanford University. Orly and Anna are here to enhance your experience, address issues that arise, and help build our community.
What to Expect
In the spirit of transparency, we want to share that this is our first time doing a MOOC. We ask you for your patience and feedback so we can learn and make this better as we go. Like most of you, we are doing this MOOC in addition to our full-time jobs. We do not have the resources of a full University team behind us. We will work to be as responsive and engaged as we can be, but with 11,000 students and six instructors, we obviously won’t be responding to each question and comment.
However, this is where you come in. We have already seen dozens of great posts on the discussion board with substantive questions that are being answered by others in the course. This idea of the “wisdom of the crowd” is a key concept behind MOOC’s, and we hope that the community amongst all the participants of this course is one of the richest we’ve seen in the MOOC world yet. So keep asking tough questions and keep sharing your thoughtful answers. We will also chime in, but we do not hold all the answers.
Lastly, we encourage everyone to remember good digital citizenship. Be rigorous in your thinking and ask hard questions, but let’s keep the debate productive and civil. We may be stating the obvious, but we want to ensure this is a robust learning environment where everyone feels comfortable participating.
Thanks all for taking this leap with us, and here’s to a great course!
Caitrin
Our course staff
By the end of the course, you will know our instructors very well: Brian Greenberg from the Silicon Schools Fund, Michael Horn from the Clayton Christensen Institute, and Rob Schwartz from the New Teacher Center. In addition, we want to introduce three others you won’t see on camera but who you will see in the discussion forums. First, my name is Caitrin Wright and I work at Silicon Schools Fund with Brian and am the project manager for this course. I have been working on education issues for the last ten years and specifically on blended learning for the last four years. I’m thrilled to be learning with and from all of you.
We also have two great teaching assistants (TAs) who are working with us on this course and with whom you will interact a lot. Orly Friedman is a Stanford graduate student who has taught elementary school and helped pilot a blended learning program herself. Anna Gu is a research assistant at the Christensen Institute with a background in early childhood education and bilingual education at Stanford University. Orly and Anna are here to enhance your experience, address issues that arise, and help build our community.
What to Expect
In the spirit of transparency, we want to share that this is our first time doing a MOOC. We ask you for your patience and feedback so we can learn and make this better as we go. Like most of you, we are doing this MOOC in addition to our full-time jobs. We do not have the resources of a full University team behind us. We will work to be as responsive and engaged as we can be, but with 11,000 students and six instructors, we obviously won’t be responding to each question and comment.
However, this is where you come in. We have already seen dozens of great posts on the discussion board with substantive questions that are being answered by others in the course. This idea of the “wisdom of the crowd” is a key concept behind MOOC’s, and we hope that the community amongst all the participants of this course is one of the richest we’ve seen in the MOOC world yet. So keep asking tough questions and keep sharing your thoughtful answers. We will also chime in, but we do not hold all the answers.
Lastly, we encourage everyone to remember good digital citizenship. Be rigorous in your thinking and ask hard questions, but let’s keep the debate productive and civil. We may be stating the obvious, but we want to ensure this is a robust learning environment where everyone feels comfortable participating.
Thanks all for taking this leap with us, and here’s to a great course!
Caitrin
Wed 16 Oct 2013 11:00 PM PDT