Invitation and call for contributions to the Education IG Virtual Meeting 2020

[Hendrik Heinl]

Dear IVOA interop mailing list members,

We hereby kindly invite you to the Education Interest Group
First Virtual Meeting 2020, on August 31.

In this first virtual meeting of the IVOA Edu IG we want to exchange
experiences we made with remote teaching during the Covid19 measures
around the globe. As IVOA we now have quite some understanding how
conferences can work remotely and of course what we miss here. Yet,
teaching is different, and due to interaction between teacher and
student demands a different setting for the remote situation than a
conference.

We will have two sessions:
- the first will take place on August 31, 2020 at 10:00 UTC,
- the seccond will take place on August 31, 2020 at 16:00 UTC.

In the first of two sessions, we want to identify problems with remote
teaching, search possible solutions and hopefully find a set of best
practices to recommend to the IVOA members to use in their education and
outreach efforts in the upcoming months (let's be optimistic here!). We
would be happy about contributions from professors, teachers, and
students. We are interested in your experiences, successes and mistakes
during remote teaching, be it from the educational part, but also from
the software part: Do you have any advice for using or not using a
specific tool in a given situation: let us know!

The second session is dedicated to continue discussions from Session 1
if needed, but will also include an introduction to the idea of
organising a remote IVOA workshop on VO standards and tools. Do we think
that this is possible ? What infrastructure would we need ? Which
software solution could we use etc. ?

We suggest to discuss this possibility in the session and if we come to
a solution would like to bring this idea to the TCG and Exec.
If you are interested in participating, please send a short notice to
heinl at g-vo.org. Don't forget to mention if you want to add a
contribution to the sessions.

You can find the meeting webpage here:
https://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/EducationInterestGroupFirstVirtualMeeting

We will update it frequently and publish the link to the remote meeting
place on August 24.


Best regards,

Hendrik Heinl