[LA-SiGMA] LONI talk today at 2pm

[Bhupender Thakur]

Dear All,

We have another LONI talk today.

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TALK :-
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"Experiences Teaching Computational Science Remotely"
   by
  Karen Tomko, Ohio Supercomputing Center

  Nov 19, 2010 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
  Johnston Hall 338

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Abstract:-
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Computational Science courses often lack the critical mass necessary  
to offer them regularly at a single institution and few universities  
provide comprehensive curricula in the computational science and  
engineering (CSE) disciplines. Inter-institutional offerings are one  
solution for providing students access to a wider selection of CSE  
courses. However, developing and offering such courses to a  
geographically distributed set of students requires overcoming  
technical challenges, bridging differing educational expectations and  
exploring new environments for interacting with students. In this talk  
I shall discuss two different experiences in the remote teaching of  
parallel computing skills to computational science students. The first  
course was co-taught with Juana Moreno of LSU Physics/CCT to a small  
group of students from LSU and from Germany (Uni. Wartzberg, Uni.  
Gottingen) as part of an NSF PIRE project. The second was offered to a  
large group of students at universities across the US as part of the  
Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering summer school.  
Course format, technologies used and some reflections on this teaching  
paradigm will be presented.

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This talk will be extremely useful to those planning to teach courses  
in multiple campuses over the network. The talk will be broadcast to  
the usual LONI and LA-SiGMA sites.

More information can be found at

http://www.cct.lsu.edu/events/talks/539

You may contact your local LA-SiGMA coordinators listed on the series  
page for further info.

http://institute.loni.org/li-lasigma-series.php

Regards,
Bhupender.



-- 
Bhupender Thakur,
235 Johnston Hall, LSU
Phone (Off ): (225)-578-6376
Phone (Cell): (225)-663-9623