Neuromatch Academy designed and ran a fully online 3-week Computational Neuroscience summer school for 1757 students with 191 teaching assistants working in virtual inverted (or flipped) classrooms and on small group projects. Fourteen languages, active community management, and low cost allowed for an unprecedented level of inclusivity and universal accessibility.
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@article{arxiv.2012.08973,
title = {Neuromatch Academy: Teaching Computational Neuroscience with global accessibility},
author = {Tara van Viegen and Athena Akrami and Kate Bonnen and Eric DeWitt and Alexandre Hyafil and Helena Ledmyr and Grace W. Lindsay and Patrick Mineault and John D. Murray and Xaq Pitkow and Aina Puce and Madineh Sedigh-Sarvestani and Carsen Stringer and Titipat Achakulvisut and Elnaz Alikarami and Melvin Selim Atay and Eleanor Batty and Jeffrey C. Erlich and Byron V. Galbraith and Yueqi Guo and Ashley L. Juavinett and Matthew R. Krause and Songting Li and Marius Pachitariu and Elizabeth Straley and Davide Valeriani and Emma Vaughan and Maryam Vaziri-Pashkam and Michael L. Waskom and Gunnar Blohm and Konrad Kording and Paul Schrater and Brad Wyble and Sean Escola and Megan A. K. Peters},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.08973},
year = {2020}
}
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10 pages, 3 figures. Equal contribution by the executive committee members of Neuromatch Academy: Tara van Viegen, Athena Akrami, Kate Bonnen, Eric DeWitt, Alexandre Hyafil, Helena Ledmyr, Grace W. Lindsay, Patrick Mineault, John D. Murray, Xaq Pitkow, Aina Puce, Madineh Sedigh-Sarvestani, Carsen Stringer. and equal contribution by the board of directors of Neuromatch Academy: Gunnar Blohm, Konrad Kording, Paul Schrater, Brad Wyble, Sean Escola, Megan A. K. Peters