Today, educational content is fragmented across PDFs, websites, lecture materials, assignments, notebooks, and datasets. Course materials are often scattered between Canvas, personal websites, Git repositories, cloud drives, and public data repositories, making them difficult to discover, reuse, share, or scale beyond a single instructor’s workflow.
The National Data Platform (NDP) integrates data discovery, collaborative workflows, and scalable computing. As part of this ecosystem, the Education Hub curates modular, reusable learning content, enabling students and educators to directly engage with real-world datasets, models, and tools.
Workshop Objectives
This three-day workshop will bring together educators, administrators, and researchers interested in shaping the next generation of AI-enabled, data-driven learning experiences. During the workshop, you will explore pathways to share your current teaching workflows using NDP as a National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Classroom Sandbox with educational content that is discoverable, compute-ready, reusable, and reproducible. You will learn about the National Data Platform and NAIRR Classroom activities and how you can translate your current instruction materials to utilize these available resources. At the workshop, you will set up NDP workspaces containing reproducible, executable instructional materials that educators across higher education institutions can build on and contribute to.
Participation
Who Should Apply and Participate?
- Instructors with a preexisting course in mind that uses Jupyter Notebooks and computational assets in the classroom
- Instructors teaching data science, AI, and domain areas (e.g., earth science, social science, engineering, etc)
Application Process
Apply by July 5, 2026: https://forms.gle/pKtnJHojmNLrAM679
Accepted participants in the workshop will be notified the week of July 6, 2026. Participants will receive travel coverage for flights and hotel. After the workshop, a $2,000 stipend will be issued for participation in the workshop and follow-on activities.