Hey Everyone, See message below from Lex. Feel free to share your thoughts!
Hi, I recently learned about the Learning Assistant Alliance <https://learningassistantalliance.org/>, which started at the University of Colorado, Boulder. “A Learning Assistant is an undergraduate student who, through the guidance of course instructors and a special pedagogy course, facilitates discussions among groups of students in a variety of classroom settings that encourage student engagement and responsibility for learning.” This is organised, amongst other things, in weekly meetings with all assistants during the course. I had a brief look at their resources (for which one needs to create an account) and they overlap to some extent with the Carpentries instructor training materials, e.g. mindset and mental models. At the University of Oslo, there is an ongoing project to adopt the Learning Assistant Program to our course teaching computational skills - and I am really excited to implement it with the assistants in my course. Have the Learning Assistant Alliance and The Carpentries ever reached out to each other? Best, Lex ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tab9b26516280436a-M3a68ffb069e948782a7a2b82 Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
