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We’re Writing an Edited Book – Join Us
How it’s going so far We received 34 chapter pitches 🎉 All chapter pitches have been reviewed, and authors have received feedback. Thank you to all chapter authors who submitted a pitch! See our Approved Chapter Pitches spreadsheet for the full and updated list of chapters. Online writing retreats Register for the next online writing retreats:…
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Chapter Titles gathered during the Winter School
Below are various chapter titles gathered during the winter schools 24 and 25. In Early 2025 during a number of writing retreats they will be used to create chapter Teams, which will write Pitches and then Chapters themselves. If you’d like to join one of the chapter teams, or start your own, do have a…
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5 Example Pitches for the Book Chapter
Below are 5 example pitches we’ve written to give you some idea of how a pitch could look like. Those are not made up 🙂 They will hopefully become real chapters! Draft pitch: 3 Stars and 1 Wish: Small and Frequent Student Reflections to promote a Sense of Wonder and a Community of Vulnerability (team:…
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Book: Call for Pitches and Chapter Teams
TL;DR: We are writing the book; time to pitch your chapter(s)! [Submit by 1 April 2025 12 noon GMT]; Online Writing Retreat [20 Feb 11-1pm GMT] Premise of the book ‘Teaching Programming across Disciplines’ (working title): The book is intended to be a collection of short chapters, organised around a number of overarching themes. Main audience…
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Reflections on the Edinburgh Winter School 2025
The 2025 Edinburgh Winter School on the topic of Teaching Programming across Disciplines was more than just an event. It was a gathering of 136 participants, 71 of which attended in person and 65 online, who are part of a vibrant community of instructors committed to breaking down barriers in tech education and challenging the…
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Slides and Recordings for Winter School 2025: Teaching Programming across Disciplines
On This Page: About the Winter School: Online joining instructions were emailed to you if you registered. If you have any urgent questions you can contact pairprogramming@ed.ac.uk – we’ll try to keep an eye on that email during the day. On Wednesday 8th January 2025 we are organising a follow up to our very successful…
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Winter School 24: Thoughts and graphs from the post-event feedback
Thank you everyone for sharing your feedback about the event with us (❤️ 57 people! ). It was overwhelmingly positive and useful. We had a really great time organising this event, and it was lovely to see that all of you (especially the online participants) also had a great time. We especially appreciate your answers…
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Reflections from the Edinburgh Winter School 24
Post Written by Dr Kasia Banas, who is a 2023 fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute (www.software.ac.uk) – one of the organisations who sponsored this event. In my day job, I am a data science educator, spending most of my time designing and delivering teaching in a university context. I have an amazing team of…
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Teaching Programming to Non-Programmers: Edinburgh Winter School 24
This event took place on January 11th, 2024 at the University of Edinburgh and online. On this page you will find (click to jump there): Photos and Tweets: Follow the twitter thread on here: https://twitter.com/bea_alex All photos taken by organisers on the day: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NRYh85QNZt7bmzeqHr1axi8KL3-khl4E?usp=drive_link Feedback Form: https://forms.office.com/e/fKEundgFEg Sponsors and Partners: This exciting event could not…
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Ten Things We Learned about Fusion Teaching — Reflections on the first EFI Fusion Course
Note: This blog was first published on 18 October 2021 as a blog post on the page of Neuropolitics Reaserch Lab, written by By Bea Alex, Pawel Orzechowski, Martin Hawksey and Clare Llewellyn. It includes reflections on Pair Programming in a Fusion teaching (online and in-person at the same time). This week we ran our…