1. Neuromatch Academy: Teaching Computational Neuroscience with global accessibility
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van Viegen, Tara, Akrami, Athena, Bonnen, Kate, DeWitt, Eric, Hyafil, Alexandre, Ledmyr, Helena, Lindsay, Grace W., Mineault, Patrick, Murray, John D., Pitkow, Xaq, Puce, Aina, Sedigh-Sarvestani, Madineh, Stringer, Carsen, Achakulvisut, Titipat, Alikarami, Elnaz, Atay, Melvin Selim, Batty, Eleanor, Erlich, Jeffrey C., Galbraith, Byron V., Guo, Yueqi, Juavinett, Ashley L., Krause, Matthew R., Li, Songting, Pachitariu, Marius, Straley, Elizabeth, Valeriani, Davide, Vaughan, Emma, Vaziri-Pashkam, Maryam, Waskom, Michael L., Blohm, Gunnar, Kording, Konrad, Schrater, Paul, Wyble, Brad, Escola, Sean, and Peters, Megan A. K.
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FOS: Biological sciences ,ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION ,Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT) ,Quantitative Biology - Other Quantitative Biology - Abstract
Neuromatch Academy designed and ran a fully online 3-week Computational Neuroscience summer school for 1757 students with 191 teaching assistants working in virtual inverted (or flipped) classrooms and on small group projects. Fourteen languages, active community management, and low cost allowed for an unprecedented level of inclusivity and universal accessibility., Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures. Equal contribution by the executive committee members of Neuromatch Academy: Tara van Viegen, Athena Akrami, Kate Bonnen, Eric DeWitt, Alexandre Hyafil, Helena Ledmyr, Grace W. Lindsay, Patrick Mineault, John D. Murray, Xaq Pitkow, Aina Puce, Madineh Sedigh-Sarvestani, Carsen Stringer. and equal contribution by the board of directors of Neuromatch Academy: Gunnar Blohm, Konrad Kording, Paul Schrater, Brad Wyble, Sean Escola, Megan A. K. Peters
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- 2020
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