moocs :: Lorena A. Barba Group

RT @TaraLif: One great example is @LorenaABarba's #numericalmooc learners around the world collaborate to complete individual modules earni… View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Jupyter-based courses in Open edX: Authoring and grading with notebooks

On May 30th, Prof. Barba presented at the Open edX Conference, together with Miguel Amigot II, CTO of IBL Education, the recent work to integrate Jupyter with the Open edX platform. The talk showcased two new Open edX extensions (XBlocks): one for pulling content into a course from any public Jupyter notebook (from its URL),... Continue »

RT @NOAAClimate: Hot on the heels of a new May record, avg global temperature reached a record high in June http://t.co/9AftCYSLzn http://t… View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Announcing "Practical Numerical Methods with Python" MOOC

Aug. 6—New! Course site now open for registrations! As announced at SciPy 2014 (July 8), I will be teaching a numerical methods course at GW this Fall semester that will be connected with three other courses around the world, and also with an independent MOOC titled "Practical Numerical Methods with Python." This is a collaboration... Continue »

Sebastian Thrun interviewed in NBC about the role of @udacity in new remedial courses for entry-level students in CA http://t.co/NT5ukzqjiU View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Comment: "Will MOOCs destroy academia?"

Lorena Barba

The editorial "Will MOOCs destroy academia?", by Moshe Vardi, appeared in the November 2012 issue of the Communications of the ACM. This is my reaction to that editorial, written at the time the editorial appeared online, with the intention of leaving a comment to it. The comment grew too long, and thus I decided to... Continue »