Open Education Week | From theory to application: Learning to optimize with Operations Research | 9 March

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The Open Education project “From theory to application: learning to optimize with Operations Research in an interactive way” focuses on increasing students’ understanding of and engagement with Operations Research (OR). Even though OR is quite an intuitive approach to problems, its rigorous models are challenging for students due to their high level of abstraction, especially in fast-paced courses. 

Education-related literature highlights that a difficult aspect of teaching OR is fostering enthusiasm for developing optimization models. We plan to increase such enthusiasm level  in a three-fold manner. First, by developing an open textbook on OR models. Second, by providing open source coded examples and visualizations that refer back to the book. Third, by designing board games mimicking the same models that can be played for experimentation. 

In the workshop, we will go over the intended learning objectives and goals of the project. Then, participants will play a game that will then be paired with the equivalent analytical model and implementation, to showcase the three main pillars of the project.

In short

Where. Teaching Lab Socrates
When. Thursday 9 March, 14:00-15:00
What. Workshop
Speaker. Alessandro Bombelli, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering

Background Open Education Week

Open Education Week is an annual celebration of the people and activities that apply open practices to education around the world.

Every year since 2012, events, activities, and challenges are held at schools, colleges, universities, libraries, and organisations by communities of teachers, librarians, students, policymakers, technologists, activists and enthusiasts. They spend one week in early March sharing, discussing and celebrating their contributions to Open Education, and encouraging more engagement and creation.

This Open Education Week 2023 (March 6-10) you can show the world how we are making a difference to education.

There are two ways to contribute to OE Week 2023. You can contribute by sharing the details of the Activities you are hosting during Open Education Week and you can contribute by sharing the Open Assets or resources you have created (this automatically adds them to the OE Week Library).