This morning helped MingMing with some conceptual mapping of her data into a database structure and API model. Forgot how fun it is to teach and help others.
Monthly Archives: April 2016
Engineering Education – Week 3 – Ed Tech Critique Assignment
LDT Seminar – Master's project
Thinking how might I construct a framework to help create blended courses… looking at the core loop of this solution:
Internship – Week 3
Moving along well in the internship. Talking quite a bit with Grace about instructional design, the challenges professores have, limitations and strengths of the platforms, and possibilities for future collaboration. Talked about my Master’s project and getting more involved in an actual course planning process. Good stuff.
Engineering Education – Week 3.2 – Class Notes
Talked about Learning Module Design, the Understand Phase (benchmark tests and initial cognitive analysis).
EdSurge Job Fair
With my resume updated, new website look, new about me page, and updated LinkedIn profile, I went to the EdSurge job fair to see learn a little more about the job market and companies around here. Some interesting companies:
- Cengage
- Appsembler
- Coursera
- EdSurge
- Education Elements
- eSpark
- GSV Labs
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Khan Academy
- Khan Lab School
- Make School
- NovoEd
- Study.com
- Swivl
Job Search
Went again to BEAM (ex-Career Development Center) today to consult with them about my resume and onilne profile. Great advice that resulted in a new version of my resume and website’s new look 🙂
Lytics Seminar – Week 3 – Class Notes
Had a great presentation today on Machine Learning – the first of a series of 3 sessions -by Iris Howley. We went over the basic types of machine learning such as supervised and unsupervised learning as well as styles:
- Classification
- Numeric Prediction
- Association
- Clustering
- Neural Networks
- Deep Learning
- Decision Trees
- etc…
Brazilian Education – Week 3 – Class Notes
This week Izabel Fonseca, also a Lemann Fellow, presented her research to get some feedback. She presented one of her research topics: socio-economic factors associated with the transition from colleges to the labor market.
Was very interested in the concept of indexing higher education institutions in terms of how much better off a student might be after they graduate – how “much bang for the buck” would a student get from investing time and money in a certain institution.
Engineering Education – Week 3 – Group Meeting
Met with James and Camila about this class’ final project – which will be my Master’s project. Discussed what were the interventions I imagined we could do with the instructors and we all seemed to agree with what could be done.
While we were in the meeting, we were ‘visited’ by a photographer who wanted to take some pictures of the classroom we were in.
Later on I received an email from her 🙂
Hello,
Yesterday I wandered into a classroom and took a couple of pictures of you talking about course design. I work at Stanford in the VPGE office, and I also (on the side) write a blog about graduate education. I am working on a post related to a newly released study about the value of teaching development activities for grad students (lsfss.wceruw.org). My blog is here: http://gradlogic.org
I wanted to know whether it was ok to use one of these photos. Your face isn’t shown. I may also want to use them later, but only if it is ok with you.
Thanks,
Chris M. Golde
chris@golde.org
GRAD | LOGIC blog
Helping graduate students navigate the ups and downs of graduate school
http://gradlogic.org
