Easy Online: Document capture to video
The task
You want to write on paper, and have that writing be captured by a camera while recording a video that you can share later, or while live streaming on video conference. You think you need a document camera,... Continue »
Student’s Guide to Remote Learning
Our challenge
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, the university implemented emergency remote teaching starting on March 23, 2020. Students are now back home—some in different time zones—and expected to continue learning, with their teachers quickly adopting new technologies and... Continue »
Statement on Teaching and Learning
This statement develops my vision and goals in Teaching and Learning in higher education, through a narrative that explains my sources of inspiration, my scholarly contributions, and my track record.
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"The Why and How of Reproducible Computational Research"—talk at IACS, Stony Brook /cc.@Michael_Zingale https://t.co/54fwQuioyy on @figshare
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RT @Grady_Booch: A fascinating and thought provoking article by Lorena. https://t.co/XqEkVFOTxJ
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As an engineering professor, three main themes underpin my vision and... Continue »
Contributions to Open Education
This document supplements my faculty statement on Teaching & Learning. In it, I list my contributions to open education, through published open educational resources, essays and blog posts, talks, and interviews or media coverage. I have a decade-long commitment to open education, a consistent practice and... Continue »
Lorena Barba interviewed at O'Reilly JupyterCon 2017
Highlights How I got started using Jupyter for teaching: I met Fernando Perez at a workshop, where he gave a talk about IPython notebooks, and immediately I knew I wanted to use this in my classes. I have used them in my classes ever since. First, in my Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD Python) at Boston... Continue »
Computational Thinking: I do not think it means what you think it means
“It’s a basic skill. Right along with the three Rs.” President Obama, on his weekly address just over a month ago, announced the $4-billion Computer Science for All initiative. Reactions quickly spread to make clear that the important skill is not coding, it’s computational thinking. But what does this mean? As it’s become a buzzword... Continue »