This pilot workshop series is open to Environmental Sciences graduate students and postdocs. Please note: This will be our second iteration of the series; we have revised content and approach based on initial data collection.
Coding is an increasingly important skill for students across classes and research, but often, instructors across disciplines never learned coding pedagogy. They might not even have learned to code in any formal setting.
To bridge this gap, our team has drawn on evidence-based practice in both computer science education and the Writing Across the Curriculum model to design, assess, and adapt a coding pedagogy for practical use across disciplines. After all, writing code is a form of writing.
In this foundational workshop, Briana Morrison, associate professor in Computer Science, will lead an Introduction to Basic Coding Pedagogy (in R). The focus will be on “teaching the teacher” the pedagogy of coding and best practices for the classroom. Participants will get hands-on experience with coding, while observing coding pedagogy based on evidence-based practice.
*Facilitated by Briana Morrison, director of the UVA CompEd Center, with Elise Heffernan, doctoral candidate in Environmental Sciences, and Heidi Nobles, director of Writing Across the Curriculum.
Email Elise Heffernan with questions.