Collaborative Development of Modular Open Source Educational Resources for Natural Language Processing
Matthias Aßenmacher, Andreas Stephan, Leonie Weissweiler, Erion Çano, Ingo Ziegler, Marwin Härttrich, Bernd Bischl, Benjamin Roth, Christian Heumann, Hinrich Schütze
Abstract
In this work, we present a collaboratively and continuously developed open-source educational resource (OSER) for teaching natural language processing at two different universities. We shed light on the principles we followed for the initial design of the course and the rationale for ongoing developments, followed by a reflection on the inter-university collaboration for designing and maintaining teaching material. When reflecting on the latter, we explicitly emphasize the considerations that need to be made when facing heterogeneous groups and when having to accommodate multiple examination regulations within one single course framework. Relying on the fundamental principles of OSER developments as defined by Bothmann et al. (2023) proved to be an important guideline during this process. The final part pertains to open-sourcing our teaching material, coping with the increasing speed of developments in the field, and integrating the course digitally, also addressing conflicting priorities and challenges we are currently facing.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.teachingnlp-1.6
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Teaching NLP
- Month:
- August
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Bangkok, Thailand
- Editors:
- Sana Al-azzawi, Laura Biester, György Kovács, Ana Marasović, Leena Mathur, Margot Mieskes, Leonie Weissweiler
- Venues:
- TeachingNLP | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 43–53
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.teachingnlp-1.6
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Matthias Aßenmacher, Andreas Stephan, Leonie Weissweiler, Erion Çano, Ingo Ziegler, Marwin Härttrich, Bernd Bischl, Benjamin Roth, Christian Heumann, and Hinrich Schütze. 2024. Collaborative Development of Modular Open Source Educational Resources for Natural Language Processing. In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Teaching NLP, pages 43–53, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Collaborative Development of Modular Open Source Educational Resources for Natural Language Processing (Aßenmacher et al., TeachingNLP-WS 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2024.teachingnlp-1.6.pdf