Reflections on the hackathon experience by data presenter/scientist/instructor Dr. Megan Barker
I’d been looking forward to the hackathon for a few months, and it completely blew away my expectations! As a data presenter at the hackathon, my role was to share ideas and data from my collaborative project characterizing classroom practices in UBC biology – all in the hopes of tempting data-savvy hackers to play with the data for the weekend. In my research project team, we currently have pedagogical expertise but are sorely lacking skills in visual and data analysis. This hackathon was a perfect opportunity for us to share the dataset with analysts and students looking for real educational data to work with. The event was a smash success: we built teams, worked on real projects together, and had tangible successes by the end.
In our research, my colleagues and I ask the basic question:
We approach this by observing and collecting data from many classes in our department…..Read the full article.