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From YouTube: Courseware as Code with GitLab

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At get lab, our mission is to turn read into read, write so that everyone can contribute one of the places that struggles the most, with understanding that everyone can contribute to something is education hi. My name is pj metz and I'm a former english teacher turned education, evangelist for git lab and I'm here to talk to you about courseware. As code courseware's code started as an idea at the u.s army cyber school later on we're going to talk to you more about the details of what that means.

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But for now we want to talk about what we did with courseware's code, an idea that uses code repositories to make teachers more easily able to interact with students and create an asynchronous environment in which students can learn and take ownership of what they created in the classroom.

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Now it's my pleasure to introduce to you, christina hubie senior education program manager at git, lab to tell you all about some of the specific use cases for courseware's code.

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Hello: everyone, I'm christina huebe manager of education programs here at gitlab. I am really excited to share with you some examples of how courseware, as code has been transformational for our education program members.

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The term courseware's code was first coined by one of gitlab's customers: the u.s army cyber school, the u.s army cyber school, faced, a series of challenges that all educators can relate to the school was tasked with starting a new program and had to create all of the content from scratch.

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As they started, building out the content, they were storing files on laptops and hard drives. That approach quickly became a problematic when the school experienced turnover and the content was lost when individuals left the organization, other early tactics included emailing, zip files and whiteboarding, which resulted in inefficient and exceedingly manual processes.

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Without a common repository to share content and contribute to the school risks losing the valuable content they paid contractors to develop, to address their growing challenges, the school drew inspiration from other teams, doing software development and began their search for a git based solution for their unique situation.

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The goal was to empower the team with courseware is code and use devops principles like continuous integration and continuous development to replace the traditional maintenance of content and documentation. Styles, such as presentations, word, processing documents and spreadsheets with markdown and cicd pipelines fast forward. One year the courseware's code repository had over six thousand commits from 175 users, not only from faculty but from students themselves.

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The team went from a three-year feedback cycle on content to an instant feedback cycle with courseware as code, everyone can contribute.

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This example shows how revolutionary courseware is code can be for professional training, but what about in typical educational classrooms? Several of our get lab for education program members have adopted this funnel and have seen transformational results. For example, harriet watt university in scotland deploys 15 coding, based courses over four campuses and four different countries. The benefits to students and faculty are immense.

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Instructors saw a 10 times improvement in marking times with automated testing. Any educator can appreciate those results. Students, love having everything in one location and gitlab, made it easier to work together. One student remarked- and I quote- gitlab has made group work easier. It was a crucial tool in multiple group work projects.

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It really helped with coordinating development. The university of manchester in the uk has also adopted this funnel as well. They've actually created devops tools to find pattern and evaluation metrics that can be used to improve course content and reflect on the most common issues. The students are facing.

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The increased collaboration and benefits to students have been measured and published in peer review journals.

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One of the ways that gitlab wanted to take courseware's toast step further is to find a way to make a sort of template that other schools could use easily.

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We pitched this idea to google summer of code and through them we were able to find alejandra russi, a grad student who was looking to get involved. Alejandro turned this into a template to make it easier than ever to bring devops into the classroom.

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Now any teacher can take this template and they can bring devops right inside for their students and they can do it as easily as creating a static website. We've got everything they need right in a readme file. So it's easy to follow. You might need some coding experience, but it also walks you through. So, if you're new at this, you can tell you exactly what to do.

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We were very excited to work with alejandro and we were more excited to bring what he built to others, so they can implement devops cycles into their own classroom now, courseware, as code is not just for computer classes, I.t students or developers, it's something that we believe can be used for classes all over the educational spectrum. By using the devops life cycle, we can prepare students not just for a world where tech is becoming all more present, but we can also prepare them for collaboration working in teams working asynchronously with a global group.

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The possibilities are limitless.

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We are so excited to bring this technology to you, and our courseware is code workshop at south by southwest edu by the end of the workshop. You'll have your own free repository with basic content and everything you need to take it from there vote for courseware's code. You won't be disappointed.