The Online Educational Development Office (OEDO) is excited to announce that Tokyo Tech’s newly revised edX MOOC, “Monozukuri: Making Things” is starting today!

This is a new type of course in which learners not only view lectures and answer quizzed but also engage in their own hands-on learn-by-doing project. This course introduces fundamental topics related to Monozukuri covering engineering topics such as thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, dynamics of machinery, and design.

Learners will learn about propulsion mechanism related to a pop-pop (heat powered) steamboat. By introducing “Monozukuri” (the art of manufacturing or preparing tangible objects) which is a philosophy of how to make things with precision that work extremely well, the principle standing behind Japanese high-quality manufactured goods will be revealed. Interviews with craftsman and student organizations that design and make things including the all-Japan-university competition on human-powered aircraft will be given as...

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,...