Common Ground Course Design Workshop: A Networking Event for Faculty and Lecturers

On October 7, 2021, the Common Ground for Computing Education hosted a workshop for MIT faculty and lecturers in which they learned about the Common Ground, including past and present pilots, and networked with instructors from across the Institute to uncover opportunities for developing new Common Ground pilot subjects.

The workshop utilized a hybrid format, with 40 instructors representing 16 departments and all five Schools participating either in-person or remotely.

Pilot Course Presentations

• Programming Skills and Computational Thinking in-Context – Professor Leigh Royden (EAPS, Experimental Study Group)
• Modeling with Machine Learning: from Algorithms to Applications / Machine Learning for Molecular Engineering – Assistant Professor Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli