Professor Jonathan Appavoo shares how he uses Red Hat OpenShift to elevate learning in the classroom
Jonathan Appavoo, Associate Professor at Boston University, built an innovative, containerized lecture/lab education environment to teach the basics of computer science using Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS and Red Hat OpenShift Data Science. Jonathan uses this containerized cloud services platform on AWS to provide a scalable, industrial-grade Linux environment for the browser-based student learning experience, classroom lectures and open source textbook authoring. Co-opting the Jupyter notebooks technology in OpenShift Data Science, Boston University is able to provide a learning environment for over 300 computer science and computer engineering students that democratizes education. A demo of the student’s browser experience and the interactive textbooks is also provided.
The research collaboration between RedHat and Boston University was the catalyst for this project. Professor Appavoo thanks all of the researchers, students and RedHatters who have helped bring this to fruition. He is particularly grateful for the support of Hugh Brock and Heidi Dempsey of RedHat Research who not only helped provide the funding, but saw the value of bridging the missions of research and education. Finally, Professor Appavoo would like to thank Erwan Granger the Senior Principal Architect at Red Hat and Gerard C. Shockley of Information Services and Technology Enterprise Architecture & Systems group at Boston University, for having helped transform the vision into a reality and put up with his half-baked code.