你为什么决定在EDX上运行你的课程？
UBC正在努力增加其远程教育课程，以满足全省和国际学生的需求，也为温哥华的学生提供更大的灵活性。讲师Jeremy Heyl决定与他探索宇宙的挑战：星星和星系课程（Astr 311）。然而，他的主要关注点是向远程教育课程的学生提供相同的内容，同样有效的评估，活动和学习工具，他们将收到在校园课程中，但以不同的形式。杰里米和博士学生Ilaria Caiazzo决定使用EDX建立课程，这归功于包括多媒体内容顺利和创建互动锻炼和练习问题。EDX的丰富可能性似乎使其成为最适合的平台。
EDX的丰富可能性似乎使其成为最适合的平台。
在EDX中运行课程的主要挑战/成功是什么？
The distance education course ran for the first time in parallel with the in-class section last spring. The main challenge, which is intrinsic in every distance-education course, was that it was hard to get a sense of how the students were progressing, what they liked and what they disliked and especially, in which parts they were encountering the biggest challenges. Ilaria argued it was crucial to communicate regularly with the students to encourage them contact the course team with any problems and also to remind them of the deadlines as they come up. During the first run of the course, they ran the schedule in lock step with the in-class course, but on the second run Chris Crowley and Hailan Chen from CTLT suggested to make the assignments on EdX due with even more regularity (every second Saturday) than for an on-campus course, so that students know precisely what is expected and when.
与学生一起沟通是至关重要的，以鼓励他们与课程团队有任何问题，并在他们上来时提醒他们截止日期。
Some of the students were more active than others, and they sent emails and came to the office hours, so it was possible to get at least partial feedback. It was also challenging to implement activities in which the students could interact with each other and discuss. Jeremy and Ilaria set up a Google Community to foster the interaction and the students themselves set up Facebook groups as well.
结果是什么？
从家庭作业和教程中显然，远程教育学生平均地表现和课堂上。事实上，最终考试的平均等级与两部分相似。在术语结束时，课程的审查是积极的，夏季课程课程在夏季延伸期间注册的学生数量大幅增加：夏季春季的30名。他们决定不断通过今年提供远程教育部分，以满足需求。
此外，Jeremy和Ilaria正在考虑迁移1月份为EDX提供的校园内部。通过这种方式，校园内的学生将受益于他们在EDX上开发的活动。
您对EDX的新用户的建议是什么？
杰瑞米和Ilaria的建议是探索所有的possibilities offered by edX/Edge. The best feature of edX is the possibility of creating a wide range of activities, which can at least in part compensate the fact that the student of a distance-education course cannot participate to the lectures. Another important aspect is the interaction of the students with each other, which can be encouraged by using the peer assessment tool, the discussion page inside EdX or using other platforms, like Google + and Facebook.
EDX的最佳特征是建立广泛的活动，这至少可以弥补了远程教育课程的学生不能参与讲座的事实。
EDX平台对教师和教学助理分级的平台和评估进行了一些挑战，融合了对平台和评估的评估。Ilaria认为，这些评分评估为学生提供了重要的反馈，绝对值得努力。使用员工分级分配工具使其易于等级并提供反馈。Jeremy也使用Survey.ubc.ca设置了一种表单，帮助将学生匹配EDX到他们的UBC身份和LTI工具，以将等级（如最终考试）上传到EDX，因此学生可以看到他们的所有进步一个地方。Jeremy还写了一个脚本，以通过更改所有术语来迁移整个课程，以便更改所有截止日期以反映新术语的计划。
员工分级分配工具使其易于等级并提供反馈。
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