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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font face="Arial">We are pleased to invite you to ODL's </font><a href="http://odl.mit.edu/xtalks-digital-discourses/">xTalks: Digital Discourses</a>,<font face="Arial" style="font-family: Arial; "> a forum which facilitates awareness, deep understanding and transference of educational innovations at MIT and elsewhere. We hope to foster a community of educators, researchers, and technologists engaged in developing and supporting effective learning experiences </font><span style="font-family: Arial; ">through</span><b style="font-family: Arial; "><i> </i></b><span style="font-family: Arial; ">online learning environments and other digital technologies.</span></div><div><font color="#0f61c8" face="Arial"><br></font><i style="font-family: Arial; ">Upcoming fall events are listed below, all are free and open to the public. Refreshments provided.</i><br><font color="#0f61c8" face="Arial"><br></font><a href="http://odl.mit.edu/event/john-belcher-insights-lessons-learned-innovations-in-802-x/" style="font-family: Arial; "><b>John Belcher – 8.02x Online & 8.02 TEAL Residential: how each course can be used to improve the other</b></a><br><i style="font-family: Arial; ">Thursday, November 7 @ 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm, Whitehead Auditorium, 9 Cambridge Center</i><div><i>Hosted by HHMI MIT Education Group Seminar</i><font face="Arial"><i><br></i></font><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Last spring, Professor Belcher led the effort to put Professor Walter Lewins’s spring 2002 MIT course 8.02 lectures online in an edX course, 8.02x. Belcher will describe that effort and discuss the results in the context of their possible future impact on MIT residential education.</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; "> </span><br><a href="http://odl.mit.edu/event/brandon-muramatsu-vijay-kumar-online-teacher-education-in-pakistan/" style="font-family: Arial; "><b>Richard Larson, Vijay Kumar and others – Online teacher education in Pakistan</b></a><br><i style="font-family: Arial; ">Thursday, November 14 @ 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm, Room 12-142</i><br><span style="font-family: Arial; ">MIT faculty member Richard Larson and others who were engaged in an online teacher training program in Pakistan, will be joined by Vijay Kumar, Brandon Muramatsu & Lourdes Aleman to talk about their experiences and lessons learned from developing a program that highlighted pedagogies and educational technologies used at MIT. The courses in the program featured games-based learning, simulations, visualizations and concept-based applications. </span><br><font color="#0f61c8" face="Arial"><br></font><a href="http://odl.mit.edu/event/ike-chuang-dan-seaton-data-analytics-from-moocs/" style="font-family: Arial; "><b>Ike Chuang & Dan Seaton – Research with MITx data</b></a><br><i style="font-family: Arial; ">Thursday, November 21 @ 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm, Room 66-154</i><br><span style="font-family: Arial; ">The MITx program has generated a tremendous amount of data, both on edX and residentially at MIT. From the 14 MITx on edX courses, there are over 500 million records of events coming from over 600 thousand students; from the 23 residential MITx courses, there are records from over 2,700 student interactions. This data is a tremendous resource for understanding learning and improving courses. We describe what data is available, how to obtain access, within bounds set by FERPA, and illustrate some of the richness and potential of the data.</span><br><font color="#0f61c8" face="Arial"><br></font><a href="http://odl.mit.edu/event/una-may-oreilly-moocdb-taming-mooc-big-data-while-fostering-collaboration-in-online-education-research/" style="font-family: Arial; "><b>Una-May O'Reilly – MOOCDB: Taming MOOC Big Data while Fostering Collaboration in Online Education Research</b></a><br><i style="font-family: Arial; ">Thursday, December 12 @ 3:30 - 4:30 pm, Room 12-142</i><br><span style="font-family: Arial; ">How can we help every education researcher study the online course behavioral data captured from every course taught across the globe? How can we generate 1000's of analytic variables and 100's of visualizations from data corresponding to millions of events? What started as an effort to organize and analyze the 6.002x data from edX has now become "MOOCdb", a multi-institution effort converging to support multi-platform, open access, collaborative, online education research.</span></div><div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; ">We hope you will be able to join us at these vibrant events. </span><font face="Arial"><br></font><font color="#0f61c8" face="Arial"><br></font><span style="font-family: Arial; ">Sincerely,</span><br><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial">Molly Ruggles for Sanjay Sarma & Vijay Kumar</font></font></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div><br></div></span></div></div></div></body></html>