2 months ago I started to create the Web Science MOOC and now you can join our MOOC as a student. We will start online streamed flipped classroom lessons on October 29th. Our MOOC is truely open meaning that all the teaching material will be provided as open educational resources with a creative commons 3.0 …
Category: Teaching and Exercises
In this section I will share exercises and I created and discuss why they are interesting
MOOCs at Wikiversity: A Barcamp proposal for #OERde13
I would like to have an discussion with people that have experience or are interested in MOOCs and Wikiversity. The goal is to checkout the possibilities for creating (otherwise over commercialized) MOOCs in an OER environment (especially wikiversity). Background: According to my former blog post there are 3 ways for creating a MOOC that is truely OER: …
Comparison of open educational resources services to host your MOOC
This article on open and free platforms to host your MOOC belongs to the entire series: comparison of places to host your MOOC. As already mentioned there are only a few platforms which really belong to the category of open educational resources. The term is described in the Wikipedia article: Open educational resources as follows: …
Comparison of platforms and places to use to host your MOOC
As many of you know and voted (thanks for that) Steffen and I tried to get a MOOC fellowship in order to create a web science MOOC. Even though our application was not successful we decided that online teaching in the MOOC format is suitable for the web science lecture. With the structure from our …
Please help me to realize my Web science massive open online course
I am asking you for a big favor in this blog post! You can help me to achieve one of my childhood dreams: I am an enthusiastic teacher and love to share information (as you might have seen by reading my blog) Over the last month I have designed a structure for an online course …
Teaching Web Science (web architecture and Web ethics) to students
In July 2012 we taught a course for the German National Summer School for high school students. The course consisted of 50 hours over 14 days. Due to some specific settings of the Summer School we had to make a few adjustments to the format of our curriculum and lectures. Still we gathered some good …
Paul Wagner and Till Speicher won State Competition "Jugend Forscht Hessen" and best Project award using neo4j
6 months of hard coding and supervising by me are over and end with a huge success! After analyzing 80 GB of Google ngrams data Paul and Till put them to a neo4j graph data base in order to make predictions for fast scentence completion. Today was the award ceremony and the two students from …
Algorithms exercise: Find mistakes in Wikipedia articles
Today I started an experiment I created an excercise for coursework in algorithms and data structures that is very unusuale and many people have been criticle if this was a good idea. The idea behind the exercise is that studens should read wikipedia articles to topics related to lectures and find mistakes or suggest things …
balanced binary search trees exercise for algorithms and data structures class
I created some exercises regarding binary search trees. This time there is no coding involved. My experience from teaching former classes is that many people have a hard time understanding why trees are usefull and what the dangers of these trees is. Therefor I have created some straight forward exercises that nevertheless involve some work …
3 exercises for Sorting problems (Quicksort , Mergesort) in Algorithms and data structures class
#1: Sorting huge files Sorting big files might not be as simple as just implementing an sort algorithm. As soon as the file does not fit in memory any more smarter implementations have to be applied. One way is to sort the file on the hard disk. We remark that not every algorithm is easily …