Workshop at Lafayette College, Nov. 2nd, 2018

The materials below are from a Compute-to-Learn Workshop at Lafayette College given by Dr. Heidi Hendrickson, a chemistry professor at Lafayette College, and Ellen Mulvihill, a chemistry graduate student at University of Michigan. The workshop was designed to be an introduction to the Compute-to-Learn pedagogy along with describing how it was first implemented at Michigan, an R1 institution, and then adapted to Lafayette, a Primarily Undergraduate Institution. The workshop was open to faculty from all fields, as the C2L pedagogy can be adapted easily to fields outside of chemistry. There materials are also available on GitHub.

Workshop Objectives

Participants will:

Learn the basics of the Wolfram programming language
Program a demonstration in Mathematica
Develop ideas for demonstrations related to topics in their own courses
Learn about differences in implementing C2L at various institution types
Identify challenges and discuss strategies for implementing C2L in their own courses

Materials

Interested in Collaborating?

Along with being on the Compute-to-Learn GitHub page, the Mathematica tutorial that we implement in the first three weeks of the course is given below, with more information to come. You will need Mathematica or the free Wolfram CDF Player in order to open the notebook files (extension .nb). We encourage you to look over the tutorial to see if the compute-to-learn project is something you are interested in and to contact us with any questions or suggestions. If you do plan to use the compute-to-learn project at your school, please let us know!