GridKa school - Teaching information technologies since 2003

Author

Ernst, Melanie ; Hartmann, Thomas ; Heiss, Andreas ; Jung, Christopher ; Meyer, Joerg ; Nilsen, Dimitri ; Petzold, Andreas ; Pfeiler, Christoph-Erdmann ; Schaeffner, Ingrid ; Jie Tao ; Weber, Pavel

Author_Institution

Steinbuch Centre for Comput., Karlsruhe Inst. of Technol., Karlsruhe, Germany

fYear

2015

fDate

18-20 March 2015

Firstpage

395

Lastpage

402

Abstract

GridKa School is an annual international computing school hosted by one of the largest scientific data centers in Europe. Adopting its computational resources and expert knowledge for the educational purposes, GridKa School provides excellent possibilities to gain the skills on the deployment and application of advanced software tools and techniques. This paper describes the unique concept of the school, its educational model, the continuous development of its curriculum and the successful organization structure. It argues the benefits and challenges of the chosen educational approach which has emerged based on many years of teaching experience at GridKa School.

Keywords

computer science education; educational institutions; teaching; Europe; GridKa school; educational approach; educational purpose; information technology teaching; international computing school; software techniques; software tools; Big data; Cloud computing; Communities; Computational modeling; Conferences; Education; Information technology; big data; cloud computing; computing school; information technologies; practical course;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2015 IEEE

Conference_Location

Tallinn

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDUCON.2015.7096003

Filename

7096003