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Title: Open OnDemand as a Platform for Virtual Learning in Higher Education
The need for distance and virtual learning platforms has been emphasized by the COVID-19 pandemic. With the closure of campuses in Spring of 2020 and many classes moving to online only in Fall of 2020, platforms for facilitating computationally oriented curriculum have had to be quickly adopted. Open OnDemand offers a familiar web-based portal to computational resources such as high-performance computing and cloud. Through OnDemands customizable dashboard, students can be offered an interface tailored to the course schedule giving them a just what I need view. Advantages to instructors include a web accessible, platform agnostic interface leading to less time for troubleshooting local student platforms and more time for discussion of the core course curriculum, a fully customizable course page, access controls, and more. Here we present Open OnDemand as a platform for developing, deploying, and presenting software and course material to software-oriented classes as used at Ohio Supercomputer Center and Virginia Tech.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1835725 1534949
PAR ID:
10300451
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Lecture notes in networks and systems
Volume:
216
ISSN:
2367-3370
Page Range / eLocation ID:
323-331
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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