DIREC-projekt

Software Infrastructures for Teaching at Scale

Resumé

At kunne undervise i mange af de nyeste emner inden for digital teknologi i stor skala kræver en passende softwareinfrastruktur til at understøtte undervisningen i laboratorieøvelser og projekter. Nogle af disse emner omfatter datadrevne systemer, kunstig intelligens og cloud computing. Kommercielle udbydere tilbyder cloud computing- og AI-ressourcer, men i mange tilfælde er disse uegnede til undervisningsaktiviteter, da de er komplekse for begyndere, kan skabe problemer i forhold til GDPR, hurtigt gør undervisningsmateriale forældet på grund af ændrede brugergrænseflader og medfører betydelige omkostninger, når de skal skaleres. Derfor er der et udækket behov for bedre cloud-lignende infrastrukturer, der kan hoste sandbox-software og datasæt til undervisningsbrug og dermed forbedre onboarding og fastholdelse af studerende.

Projektperiode: 2021-2023
Budget: DKK 5,63 millioner

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Research problems and aims

The universities have or are building new computing resources for research and teaching. So far, the primary focus has been on research in the form of e-science initiatives (e.g. SDU e-Science Center UCloud or AAU CLAUDIA) or e-infrastructure (e.g. DEIC) providing services with a general focus on all sciences. However, there is a need to complement or customise these services with offers for teaching in digital technologies.

The aim is to improve the Danish software infrastructure for teaching in digital technologies by coordinating cross-institutional development of software infrastructure for teaching including software toolkits, access to data sandboxes and access to the Danish national DeiC Type1 HPC for educational cloud computing.

Value creation

The aim is to improve onboarding and retention of students result in an ability to teach more students and lower dropout rates.