A few takeaways from #POD22Online, now on the blog, since I originally posted them on Twitter and who knows how long they'll be there?

https://derekbruff.org/?p=3942

@derekbruff ooh, I would also be interested in hearing more about how the faculty reacted/approached the program…alas, as a #pod22seattle participant, I don’t have access to the #pod22online session resources - can’t even look up the session presenters! 🤔

RT @actualham@twitter.com

Here are my slides for #POD22Seattle #POD22Online. The talk is about how ALL of us in education need to acknowledge how our work is dangerously shaped by neoliberalism. As dark as it is, I mean it to be a gesture of love/hope to the gut-punched. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12gR8lLtapCzZU1jMQwC2IRIdvx--nyGXIxt35JTGxVA/edit?usp=sharing

I had never seen http://decodingthedisciplines.org/ before #POD22Seattle. Great source related to student learning.

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Here are my slides for #POD22Seattle #POD22Online. The talk is about how ALL of us in education need to acknowledge how our work is dangerously shaped by neoliberalism. As dark as it is, I mean it to be a gesture of love/hope to the gut-punched. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12gR8lLtapCzZU1jMQwC2IRIdvx--nyGXIxt35JTGxVA/edit?usp=sharing

Awesome #pod2022 #pod22seattle #pod22online keynote @actualham abt role of #facultydevelopment #educationaldevelopment centers in disrupting the all-too-frequent #antieducation #highered discourse

Awesome #pod2022 #pod22seattle #pod22online keynote @actualham abt role of #facultydevelopment #educationaldevelopment centers in disrupting the all-too-frequent #antieducation #highered discourse

FYI I thought I was at a conference presentation about MICROAGGRESSIONS but it's actually about MICROSESSIONS, which is not the same thing! Still a good session for sure, but I thought at first they were really ironically bad at addressing their topic. #POD22Online #POD22Seattle

Also realizing that at this point I think I believe that an online keynote is superior to f2f. More opportunities for interaction and community with audience (if we don't lock them in a webinar). Also the small matter of not contracting or spreading a deadly virus, but that is just gravy. #POD22Online

#ActiveLearning Library https://teaching.tools/activities & free Lesson Planning Tool https://teaching.tools/lessonplanner #teaching #pod22 #pod22online

Clare used four different classification models with names like Naive Bayes and Random Forest. I have to assume that data scientists have great band names.

Okay, have to go care for the baby. But this session is really interesting. #POD22Online

Currently just 1 of 24 participants in this #POD22Online session with their cameras on. That would be me.

Did I miss some instructions to leave cameras off? This is getting really weird now.

Oh, this is cool. They had 168 syllabi from UVA that had been rubric-scored by CTE staff members. That was their target: Can we get the AI to score similarly?

The approach: Text analysis, using words associated with rubric categories and doing some word counts. And some statistics, of course.

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And Laura says what I had been listening for: The UVA learner-centered syllabus rubric! The UVA teaching center has done so much good research (e.g. on teaching transformation) using this rubric. More details: https://cte.virginia.edu/resources/syllabus-rubric.

So... Can a data scientist teach a computer to review a syllabus using this rubric like an experience educational developer might? Answer: Yep.

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Laura Cruz: Can you teach a computer to review syllabi?

Me, having just posted a podcast episode on AI: Oh, this should be fun!

Clare was a student in machine learning looking for data sets. Laura was a faculty developer with a pile of example syllabi. So they teamed up!

The challenge: What interesting questions can we ask and answer with these tools?

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Some studies on syllabi have looked at course design, teaching transformation, skill integration (e.g. info literacy), and compliance / accreditation.

(I'm loving these images of visually engaging syllabi that Laura and Clare are using!)

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Back at #POD22Online while the son sleeps. Excited to hear from Laura Cruz and Clare Cruz about a statistical analysis of 168 rubrics!

I caught just a bit of a session about an interview study about educational developers and their experiences with "resilience" since 2020. This quote stuck out: "Resilience seems to be a code word for 'Get it done, no matter what.'"

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I'm catching as much of #POD22Online today as a I can, but there will be less liveblogging. I have a 7-month-old here at home with a bad cold. :/

Ok starting a new thread for my journey to (#pod22online &) & #POD22Seattle. We’re arriving at the airport where my plan is to purchase a breakfast sandwich, exit the airport, huddle in the sleet to lower my mask and eat it, go inside and maybe fly somewhere but mostly just get the sandwich.