TeamMeeting 2017 01 Agenda

Team Meeting Agenda

Nassau Community College
January 4-6, 2017

Notes for this meeting: TeamMeeting_2017_01_Notes

Prep for the Meeting:

• If you have time, create additional pathways on foss2serve

Schedule Overview

• Tuesday - travel
• Wednesday:
  • Target start time of 9 AM at NCC - Lunch will be provided
  • Casual / Working dinner
  • Work until 8 or 9 Wednesday evening
• Thursday:
  • Breakfast on your own
  • Lunch will be provided
  • Dinner at Cafe Baci
    • Reservation 5:30/6 for 7 people
    • John Sener arrives by train into Westbury 4:30ish
• Friday
  • Breakfast on your own
  • Lunch will be provided
  • Goal of working until 3pm at least depending on when people need to travel to get home.

Goals for this Meeting

• Budget review OpenFE and OpenPath
  • Participant support and student funding in particular
• Assess status of OpenPath relative to the proposal
• Plan actions needed to stay on track with OpenPath
• What do we need to do to wind down OpenFE?
• Identify / summarize what has been accomplished for both OpenFE and OpenPath (in part for the annual report)
• Pathways
• Evaluation Instruments and data collection from institutions using HFOSS during the Spring 2017 semester - need data to be able to publish
• Plan 2017 activity
• POSSE:
  • Feedback from 2016-11 POSSE
  • Changes for 2017-04 POSSE?
• Location of materials
  • Content in google docs versus foss2serve versus Trello

Topics

Events

• SIGCSE
  • POSSE Roundup
  • BoF
  • Attend CS Education Researchers meeting on Weds? https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~etkraem/UPCSEd/
• CCSCNE
• POSSE 2017-04
• POSSE Europe
• Train the Trainer
• POSSE 2017-fall

Pathways Model

• Status:
  • We have a “good enough” model (see the “Pathways Model” folder in DropBox)
• Review Existing Pathways
  • What pathways could Greg and Stoney use in winter/spring classes? Plan for those.
• Build a rubric for assessing pathways? - what are we trying to assess? Do we only need to check completeness of pathway?
• Define a way to track how activities map to pathways and usage of pathways by instructors
  • Add column to activity to link to learning activity?
  • Do we need a link back from learning activity to pathway?
• Also need Pathway assessment - follow a pathway and execute the steps and report back
  • GH, HE, and NCC may have some students who can do this
• POSSE Roundup - Map learning activities to pathways
• Define further pathways - existing set in Dropbox

Budget

• Review of budget status

FROM 2016 TEAM MEETING - Topics:

Measurement

Review of what we have

• Measurements as defined in the proposals - are we covering the bases?
• Existing instruments
  • Pre/Post Survey - any update needed?
  • Experience Self-report survey (Karl and Stoney) - expand/refine and get IRB approval?

Direct measurement of learning

• What study designs are possible?
• What instruments do we need?
  • GH pilot of general FOSS intro questions
• Are there existing instruments that we might use, especially for professional skills?
• How to we measure process skills?

How to measure instructor stage 3 activity

• One year post survey for POSSE alum
  • Poor response to last round - should we switch to interviews?
• Multiple good stories told at Hopper (Patti, Becka)
  • Is there a publication in this (experience report style perhaps)?
• Mentions of efforts in POSSE roundup applications

Pathways Working Group Meeting

• Planning
  • Goals
  • Agenda
  • What materials need to be prepped?

Pathways Model

Goal - have a reviewable draft by the end of this meeting.

How do we move forward with the pathways model? We need to:

1. Finalize definitions
   1. Are there steps to accomplish a task or tasks to accomplish a step?
   2. Learning resource, Learning activity, categories of learning things (POGIL activity, assignment, case study, etc)
2. Flesh out some example paths

Planning for upcoming events

• Weekly team meeting time for this term. Doodle poll: http://doodle.com/poll/zhyivyx3dmshkexp
• Need to come up with an approach for organizing publications/presentations
  • Identify venues for the next year+
  • Identify possible authors
  • The overall goal is to improve our publications and include a larger number of POSSE/HFOSS community members
• What are the next publication targets?
  • SIGCAS Newsletter section based on POSSE Roundup
    • We need to write an overview (perhaps with some POSSE alum participation?)
• Need for a better round of evaluation and data collection to support publications

• SIGCSE
  • POSSE Roundup, Wednesday, March 2, all day (Sultana)
  • BoF
  • NSF Showcase, Thursday, March 3, 10:00 am
• CCSCNE
• Posters at NSF/AAAS meeting
• POSSE
• Possible other events
  • Course materials sprint
  • Academic and HFOSS community summit about education for HFOSS
  • Publication sprint
• Working groups
  • Pathways model
  • Curriculum mapping

POSSE

• Planning for 2016
• Stage 1
  • What revisions are needed?
  • 6 vs 8 weeks
  • Participation by POSSE alums of HFOSS project people
• Stage 2
  • Date and location
  • Advertising
  • Team attendees and instructors
  • POSSE alum who might attend and present - including having alums start to be full instructors
  • What revisions are needed?
• Stage 3
  • Assessing success of stage 3
  • How can we better support stage 3 faculty?
  • Plan more organized faculty mentoring?
• Red Hat support / participation in POSSE

Teaching materials

• VM support for demo and development environments for key HFOSS projects
• How well have we packaged what we have?
  • OAI-PMH
• How do we create/collect more materials?
• Should we hold a learning materials sprint?
• How do we encourage more contributions by POSSE grads?
  • Use of stipends funds

Budget

• Review of budget status

Next Steps

• Encouraging use of faculty stipends
• Participant support for follow-up events
  • 50 ways - Part 2