Building a student-centered learning community in Jupyter

Building a student-centered learning community in Jupyter

Brief Summary

Ryan Cooper discusses the role of Jupyter in new modes of post-COVID teaching. He covers how to design, build, and deploy notebooks on Jupyterhub and GitHub. The educational applications focus on student-centered learning communities. The benefits of building a Jupyter community in the classroom include: students are given the chance to experiment and build models, they are brought into the Jupyter community of free open-source software developers, and they experience an overall student-centered learning environment.

Overview

• "Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself." - John Dewey
• Student-centered learning is better than teacher-centered learning
• Student-centered learning includes projects, problems, asking questions, etc.
• Main goal is to develop method of thinking and solution in Computational Mechanics
• Jupyter is everything I want in a learning resource:
  • Its open and versatile, I can use JupyterHub, send raw code, print out pdfs, etc.
  • Open resources available e.g. Barba and Clementi's awesome Engineers Code
  • The community is built upon communication and learning