In order to teach new OEDO Teaching Assistants (TA) online learning analytics methods, the OEDO general manager, Professor Jeffrey S. Cross and experienced learning analytics TAs held a workshop on December 6th, 2019 in the Tokyo Tech OEDO office.

Another aim of this workshop is to improve the skills of the new TA analysis team in online learning data analysis. In total 10 TAs joined the workshop, where six of them are new members.

The OEDO Analytics group called “Oedolytics” was formed 3 years ago and consists of four core TAs with computer science backgrounds and was organized by Professor Cross. The Oedolytics TAs aim to develop new online course analytics methods to evaluate online courses in order to improve their quality.

In this workshop, four experienced Oedolytics TAs introduced their results they have done so far in the OEDO showing the tools such as "Jupyter notebook" and Google’s Collaboratory to explain how to use Python for MOOC learning analysis and data analysis. Finally,...

On December 2nd, OEDO organized an orientation session, during which professor Nagahama presented OEDO team and its different activities, and announced the beginning of the 4th quarter recruitment session.

Two sessions were organized, one was in Japanese and the other one was held in English.

Many students joined the orientation session, and expressed their interest in joining the OEDO team as TAs.

After an interesting discussion with Professor and some of the current TAs about the activities and the working atmosphere at OEDO, the students submitted their applications for TA positions.

OEDO Team is looking forward to welcoming its new members.