Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2015 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Tallinn
DOI :
10.1109/EDUCON.2015.7096003
