Earth Educators'
Rendezvous

This post was edited by Monica Bruckner on Jul, 2020
The sixth annual Teaching Computation with MATLAB workshop is moving online! Ensure your spot--apply to participate in the virtual workshop by July 31: https://serc.carleton.edu/teaching_computation/workshop_2020/index.html

At this October 11-13 faculty-led virtual workshop, educators in Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Geoscience, Math, Physics, and allied fields will develop MATLAB related curriculum while sharing strategies, tools, and challenges teaching computational courses in in-person and online settings.

If you're teaching a STEM course, you've likely seen big changes in expectations over the last few years--more online learning, more programming, more math, and more hardware, with individual courses that must include all the above. And with recent moves to virtual learning, courses must work in an online format. With the recognition that COVID-19 upheaval presents many new challenges, two clear emerging requirements are the need for teaching computation and flexible, remote methodologies.

Working with faculty peers and MATLAB experts, workshop participants will develop MATLAB related curriculum while sharing strategies, tools, and challenges teaching computational courses in the new virtual and distance learning reality. Topics will cover:

Strategies for flipping classrooms and videoing lectures
Automated grading of coding assignments with MATLAB Grader
Centralized browser-based MATLAB Online software for teaching and learning
Coding notebooks and effective teaching activities

For more information, visit: https://serc.carleton.edu/teaching_computation/workshop_2020/index.html

Questions? Reply to this post or shoot me a message at mawalt AT carleton DOT edu

How much of this would be relevant for using Python as the coding language? I've been using Python with Jupyter Notebooks in my (formerly in-person and now remote) classes, and there's a growing atmospheric science Python community. The first and fourth topics above look general enough, but specifics of MATLAB software probably wouldn't be.

The workshop will be a mix of sessions that are applicable for educators teaching computation generally and MATLAB-specific sessions. I encourage you to take a look at workshop programs from previous years, which will hopefully give you a sense of the mix: https://serc.carleton.edu/teaching_computation/events.html