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Using GitHub in the classroom leads to learning outcomes like preparation for the future and feeling part of a developer community.
Many teachers use GitHub in the classroom to familiarize students with real-world workflows. And since 2012, about 21,000 teachers have used GitHub Education to provide an authentic learning experience. Anecdotally, we hear from teachers all the time that using GitHub boosts their student engagement, employability, even passing rates.
Now the data is in: our paper on how using GitHub in the classroom predicts positive learning outcomes was accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed SIGCSE (Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education) proceedings.
The paper, which is open-access, can be found on the Association of Computing Machinery’s (ACM) website:
I’m Vanessa (@mozzadrella), the General Manager of GitHub Education. We’ve supported SIGCSE since 2013, and this year I had the honor of presenting our data in February at the annual conference in Minneapolis.
More and more classrooms want to integrate real-world tools and workflows. Between this paper and some recent research from GitHub Education, we can offer a few key insights to help teachers use current tools more effectively:
Since 2012, GitHub Education has worked with schools, universities, and bootcamps around the world to help the next generation of developers make their best work.
From enriching liberal arts classrooms like Bard to get poets programming websites, to helping teachers automate their assessment at the Hasso-Plattner Institute in Germany, to students actually mapping crisis information for the American Red Cross in Japan, classrooms are using real-world tools and collaborative workflows to model 21st-century skills.
In June of last year, GitHub Education deepened our commitment to the next generation of developers by offering our product to entire schools at no cost.
Now over 100 schools—like the University of Southern California, Florida Tech, Ohio University, Texas State University, and the Sorbonne—use the same product our enterprise customers use, and they can provide it to their entire campus for free.
If you’re curious about using GitHub for Education, we hope this information provides support to upgrade your campus.
Join these schools who use GitHub across their campus, who are saving time with setup and seeing better outcomes for their students.
