(566d) Lessons Learned and Best Practices for Interactive Workshops from the Institute for Computational Molecular Science Education

The Institute for Computational Molecular Science Education supports the development of molecular simulation pedagogy, open source curricula, and professional networks through in-person and online workshops throughout the year. Here we summarize activities across four in-person summer schools and one online school. We describe the software development techniques, strategies, and tools we apply to curriculum development that includes tutorial contributions across a variety of computational fields. We show examples of open materials that can be used by the broad molecular sciences community and discuss areas for improvement. Further we describe efforts to train workshop trainers, the experiences of learners across these five workshops. We highlight high-impact training practices, future plans and activities, and invite broad participation from those involved in chemical education, software engineering, simulation, open educational materials, and curriculum development.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants No. 2118217, 2118204, 2118174, 2200907, and 2118180.