📅 2025-02-15 — Session: Developed comprehensive course materials framework

🕒 03:10–04:10
🏷️ Labels: Course Design, Education, Jupyter Notebooks, Github, Google Colab
📂 Project: Teaching
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The objective of this session was to develop a comprehensive framework for course materials, focusing on the Laboratorio de Datos FCEN course at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and to integrate modern educational technologies and methodologies.

Key Activities

  • Outlined a framework for course-overall materials, detailing specific documents required for stakeholders such as course overviews, instructor guides, and student handbooks.
  • Organized course materials by key outcomes, ensuring coverage of course foundations, teaching resources, evaluation methods, and technical infrastructure.
  • Explored state-of-the-art approaches for coding tutoring using Jupyter Notebooks, emphasizing automation and feedback mechanisms.
  • Developed a workflow for integrating Google Colab with GitHub for student management, facilitating real-time tracking and portfolio evaluation.
  • Drafted and refined the course overview and syllabus for the Laboratorio de Datos FCEN, including course structure, objectives, weekly topics, and grading criteria.
  • Integrated software documentation into the course content to enhance educational materials.

Achievements

  • Established a structured approach for organizing and managing course materials.
  • Created a draft syllabus for the Laboratorio de Datos FCEN course, ready for feedback and further refinement.
  • Developed a workflow for using Google Colab and GitHub to manage student work effectively.

Pending Tasks

  • Review and incorporate feedback on the course syllabus and materials.
  • Further refine the integration of software documentation based on stakeholder input.