Principal Investigator
Prof. David Pritchard, Physics
Fund:
Alumni Class Funds
Funding Period:
AY2018
Department/Lab/Center:
Physics
We will make a new residential MITx course for 8.01L in a new way. Instead of starting from zero, we will combine resources from 6 different existing edX/MITx courses that are appropriate for 8.01L students – typically freshmen with subpar preparation in math and physics who need more expert strategic problem-‐solving skills (see proposal for details). ODL engineering has made LORE, a tool that combines resources from different edX/MITx courses into one searchable repository and allows creation of new courses from these resources. We propose to enable it to detect near-‐duplicates and closely related resources using natural language processing, add metadata about the resources (some of it already in Ike Chuang’s MITx analytics), and make our new 8.01L course from this library.