Both teams and individuals are welcome. Please pass this announcement along to colleagues, who might find this event of interest. Computational Science is an emerging and rapidly growing interdisciplinary field at the intersection of mathematics, computing and science. During the workshop, participants will learn about the structure of computational science programs that have been developed with NSF funding. JiTT is presently used in over 80 science and humanities courses at more than 50 institutions.
Instructors base the daily classroom activities on the student submissions.
The PKAL workshop will be a hands-on event with participants actively engaged in the pedagogy discussions and in the authoring activities. Working from templates provided by the workshop presenters, the participants are expected to leave the workshop with a start-up portfolio of resources, enabling them to get started with JiTT immediately. The most likely beneficiaries of this workshop are faculty teams who have explored alternatives to traditional passive teaching and learning and are ready to explore alternative methods. They will need to commit themselves to the active-learner approach. They will also need institutional technical support to be able to utilize the underlying web technology.