Greetings! I---Derek Sollberger---am a lecturer at the University of California at Merced (middle of California, near Yosemite). There I am a math teacher by title, but I have been teaching the data science courses for the biology majors for the past 5 years, and I have been unofficially adopted by the biological sciences department to teach the bioinformatics courses. There I heard about BioQuest and this will be my first time at a BioQuest event. Sometimes I act as a consultant for grad students for data science and I am a statistical consult for professors who are starting to implement active learning techniques.
Most of my job is focused on teaching, and I lead a couple of distinct data science courses:
R (mostly sophomores): R Markdown, tidyverse, probability, exploratory data analysis, Shiny homework
Python (mostly seniors): Jupyter notebooks, medical imaging, Pandas, object-oriented programming, DNA analysis
This summer, I am in the midst of virtually back-to-back-to-back conferences
useR!2019 (R programmers)
QUBES :-)
SEPAL (active learning)
and I am starting to regret my decisions (sarcasm).
At QUBES, perhaps a few of us could gather and share ideas about how to increase student engagement and enthusiasm. Also, does anyone want to find a restaurant to eat blue crab?
I'm with you both on brainstorming approaches to student engagement and to exploring seafood restaurants! I think our hosts (Drew LaMar, et al) could be a helpful resources for the latter, and probably the former as well...
Derek and Dmitry.... I'm in for both. Most of my students are health oriented, thus to get them engaged in R and data analysis is a challenge, so ideas are welcomed.
Derek - your classes sound pretty interesting... love to hear more about
what you are doing.
Now that I'm teaching courses that are in the "computer science"
department, I find students know they are going to do programming, so it is
an expectation, but they also come prior expectations about what
programming is that I have to work to dispel. It's like they are coming
with enthusiasm for becoming a lone hacker out of an intro class when what
I really want them to do is to be able to think about the problem space
deeply before writing anything, make code legible to others, and create a
cooperative learning community. Very different audience than when I used to
teach for a biology department. I'd love to trade ideas with folks!
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 3:34 PM Raymond L Tremblay @ QUBES <
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Greetings! I---Derek Sollberger---am a lecturer at the University of California at Merced (middle of California, near Yosemite). There I am a math teacher by title, but I have been teaching the data science courses for the biology majors for the past 5 years, and I have been unofficially adopted by the biological sciences department to teach the bioinformatics courses. There I heard about BioQuest and this will be my first time at a BioQuest event. Sometimes I act as a consultant for grad students for data science and I am a statistical consult for professors who are starting to implement active learning techniques.
Most of my job is focused on teaching, and I lead a couple of distinct data science courses:
This summer, I am in the midst of virtually back-to-back-to-back conferences
and I am starting to regret my decisions (sarcasm).
At QUBES, perhaps a few of us could gather and share ideas about how to increase student engagement and enthusiasm. Also, does anyone want to find a restaurant to eat blue crab?
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Hey Derek,
I'm with you both on brainstorming approaches to student engagement and to exploring seafood restaurants! I think our hosts (Drew LaMar, et al) could be a helpful resources for the latter, and probably the former as well...
Dmitry
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Derek and Dmitry.... I'm in for both. Most of my students are health oriented, thus to get them engaged in R and data analysis is a challenge, so ideas are welcomed.
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