Lorena A. Barba group
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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 »
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 »
A collaboration to issue badges in #numericalmooc
Announcing a collaboration with Prof. Daniel T. Hickey (Indiana University Center for Research on Learning and Technology) to award badges in our independent MOOC, "Practical Numerical Methods with Python." When I was writing the short, internal proposal for creating what is now GW's first massive open online course (MOOC), I had a handful of clear... Continue »