Workshop Program

Please plan to arrive in Northfield in time for the 5:00pm start time on Sunday, October 25^th, 2026.

All workshop activities take place in the Weitz Center for Creativity Larson Meeting Room (236), unless otherwise noted below.

Sunday, October 25^th

Participants arrive and check into their hotel (Fairfield Inn & Suites). Transportation to the workshop location is available for participants who requested walking accommodation.

2:00 – 4:00 PM (Optional) One-on-one Mentoring Sessions with Conveners (Weitz 236)

• Schedule an appointment or drop by to get curriculum coaching from workshop experts or to complete your pre-work.
• Coffee and snacks available

5:00 – 6:00 PM Welcoming Remarks, Introductions, and Icebreaker -- Facilitator: Cailin Huyck Orr (Weitz 236)

6:00 – 6:45 PM Keynote Speaker: Lisa Kempler (Weitz 236)

6:45 – 7:20 PM Dinner (Weitz 236)

7:20 – 8:00 PM Convener Panel (Weitz 236)

• Dessert and coffee available

8:00 PM Networking

• Riverside Bar and balcony open at the Fairfield hotel every day until 11pm

Monday, October 26^th

Breakfast at your hotel or in town. Transportation to Weitz is available for participants who requested walking accommodation.

8:30 – 8:45 AM Introduction and Goals for the Day - Cailin Huyck-Orr, ??? (Weitz 236)

Quick tech check

• Internet access: Eduroam or Carleton's guest network
• Log-in to find the workshop workspace and your personal workspace
• Instructions for editing workspaces

8:45 – 10:15 AM Invited Talks: Session 1, Facilitator: Kelly Roos (Weitz 236)

Presentations (55 minutes)

• Anita Omo-Okhuasuyi
• Michael Wright
• Burak Aksoylu
• Adrián Quesada Martínez
• Christina Reynolds

During talks , participants are encouraged to record their impressions on: (in personal workspaces)

• Teaching strategies you've used worth keeping
• New approaches from the educator talks to consider for your courses
• Surprises or new learnings
• Unsolved teaching and learning challenges

Table Discussions (25 minutes)

• Share briefly learnings from the talks: Approaches that work, new ideas, unsolved challenges
• Each table crafts a sample computational learning outcome/goal for two course types:
  • Broad intro to engineering computing/programming course
  • Engineering- or Science-focused course with computation serving a supporting role
• Monday table notes pages

Group Report Out (10 minutes)

• A representative from multiple tables reports on 1-2 notable learnings from their table, one from each course type

10:15 – 10:30 AM Break

10:30 – 11:45 AM Learning Goals, Facilitator: Michele McColgan (Weitz 236 and additional spaces)

Presentation on learning goals (10 minutes)

Introduction to Affinity Groups (5 minutes)

Affinity working group discussions (40 minutes)

• Discuss:
  • Desirable learning outcomes in general vs. computation courses (and which are easier and harder to achieve)
  • Specific learning outcomes for a course you teach

Individual Work (5 minutes)

• Draft 1-2 learning outcomes for one of your courses or teaching activity in your personal workspace.

Group report out (15 minutes)

• Return to Weitz 236 at 11:30 to report working group discussion results to the full group. (Consider showcasing 1 participant's learning outcomes).

11:45 AM – 1:00 PM Lunch (LDC Dining Hall)

• We will walk as a group from Weitz to the LDC. Transportation is available for participants who request walking accommodation.
• We will go through the check-in and food lines, then gather to eat in reserved rooms at the back of the main hall.
• If you want coffee after lunch, please take it with you from the dining hall.

1:00 – 1:45 PM MATLAB Teaching Tools, Speaker: Evan Cosgrove + ???? (Weitz 236)

1:45 – 2:30 PM Practice with Live Scripts, MATLAB Online, and GenAI (Weitz 236)

2:30 – 2:40 PM Break

• 2:40 PM – Photo in the main workshop room
• Refreshments and snacks available

2:45 – 3:30 PM Invited Talks: Session 2, Facilitator: ??? (Weitz 236)

Presentations 

• Kendra Murray
• Xiangyu Meng
• Richard Blackmon
• Margarete Jadamec

During talks, participants are encouraged to record their impressions on: (in personal workspaces)

• Teaching strategies you've used related to GenAI
• New GenAI approaches from the educator talks to consider for your courses
• Surprises or new learnings about GenAI in courses
• Unsolved teaching and learning challenges

3:30 – 4:00 PM Affinity Group Discussions: Assessment of Learning Outcomes, Facilitator: Ben Bratton (Weitz 236)

• Groups will discuss techniques, strategies, and challenges for assessment and also identify assessment challenges.
• Participants are encouraged to use their workspace page to keep notes and work on assessment in their course or activity.
• Affinity working group discussions
  • What approaches and tools do you use to assess student performance and learning?
    • Are these approaches effective?
  • What challenges do you have assessing student performance relative to your planned learning outcomes?
  • What techniques and tools can you adopt to help?
• Individual Work
  • Spend the final minutes of the session thinking about an assessment plan for a course or teaching activity. Use your personal workspace page to keep notes.

4:00 – 4:15 PM Effective Teaching Activities, Peer Review, and Curriculum Development at the Workshop, Facilitator: Dan Burleson (Weitz 236)

4:15 – 5:30 PM Working Groups: Teaching Activity Development, Facilitators: Lisa Kempler and Dan Burleson (Weitz 236 and additional spaces)

• Make a contract: Spend a few minutes in your working groups sharing your specific plans for your curriculum development
• Work individually to develop your ideas, working towards creating a plan and a presentable curriculum module/teaching activity on Tuesday morning.
• Use your personal workspace page for notes and resources.
• Consider how you will transfer your ideas to a structured format for sharing: Live Script, Teaching Activity, other deliverable

5:40 – 6:00 PM Group Reflection and Roadcheck (Weitz 236)

• Information on reimbursement for stipend recipients
  • If you do not already have a W-9 or W-8 BEN on file with Carleton, be on the lookout for an e-mail from the Business Office.
  • Example email from the Carleton College Business Office (Acrobat (PDF) 1.2MB Oct27 25)
• Tomorrow
  • Tomorrow's program
  • Shuttle for participants who requested a ride will leave the hotel at 8:15 AM.
  • Luggage van will leave hotel at 8:15 AM. We will bring your bags to the Weitz room.
  • Shuttle to the airport will leave at the conclusion of the workshop at 2 PM. This is the only shuttle.
• Leaving Wednesday? Connect with others if you want to coordinate travel to the airport.
• Road check
  • Dinner is at 6:30 so you can walk from here or by way of the hotel.

6:30 PM Dinner The Grand Event Center: 316 Washington St, Northfield, MN 55057

• Directions from the Fairfield Hotel
• Directions from the Weitz Center

Evening Networking

• Riverside Bar and balcony open at the Fairfield hotel every day until 11pm

Tuesday, October 27^th

Breakfast at your hotel or in town and presumably, hotel check-out. Shuttles will be available for carrying luggage from the hotel to Weitz. Transportation to Weitz is available for participants who requested walking accommodation.

8:30 – 8:45 AM Roadcheck Summary, Facilitator: Cailin/Lisa (Weitz 236)

8:45 – 9:00 AM Overview of the Day, Facilitator:  Lisa (Weitz 236)

9:00 –10:15 AM Individual Preparation: Teaching Activity Development and Completion, Facilitator:  Lisa (Weitz 236 and additional spaces)

• Use this time to complete your teaching activities.
  • Adding code to your activity page? Here are some ways to do it:
    • Serckit provides code highlighting for many languages (including Matlab). Note that this requires editing your activity page in HTML mode.
    • Serckit also supports mathematics display using LaTeX or AsciiMath notation.
• Participants should prepare to present their curriculum plans in an easy to follow format -- live script, slide, teaching activity, etc. -- for sharing with your group.
• Ask for help, get tools questions answered, test your code.

10:15 – 10:30 AM Break

• Participants who received workshop stipends should take a few minutes to complete a W-9 or W-8BEN when contacted by the Carleton Business Office. Follow the instructions on Submitting Reimbursement and Receiving your Stipend.

10:30 – 11:45 AM Working Groups: Teaching Activity Sharing and Feedback (Weitz 236 and additional spaces)

• Working group participants will meet to review their curriculum/teaching activities and get feedback and ideas from their peers.
• A subset of participants will present - 5 minutes to present, 10 minutes of feedback/discussion.

11:45 AM – 12:00 PM Working Group Report-Out , Facilitator: Lisa Kempler (Weitz 236)

• Select 1 presenter from each working group to highlight.
• Affinity group highlights/report out page

12:00 –1:00 PM Lunch + Teaching Activity Wander + Informal Show/Tell (Weitz 236)

• Participants with activities to share will display them at their tables for discussion with fellow participants.
• Boxed lunch provided.

1:00 – 2:00 PM Workshop Synthesis and Next Steps , Facilitator: Cailin Huyck Orr (Weitz 236)

• Thinking about your own experience since Sunday evening:
  • What's one way your teaching has changed or evolved?
  • What is something you've learned?
  • What will you bring back to your department, program or institution? 

2:00 PM Shuttle to Airport (main entrance of Weitz at 3rd Street E and College Street S)