Merge pull request #2 from hamasoasis/dev

Project Overview included

Author: JeffCarver

_site/assets/img/gallery-example-1.jpg

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
 	<id>http://localhost:4000/EASI/</id>
 	<title>EASI</title>
-	<updated>2023-10-05T13:22:17-05:00</updated>
+	<updated>2023-10-10T09:01:05-05:00</updated>
 
 	<subtitle>EASI is an NSF funded project entitled &quot;Experiments-As-a-Service-Infrastructure (EASI) to enable a collaborative ecosystem of experimentation in real-world educational settings&quot;</subtitle>
 

_site/atom.xml

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Theme: http://phlow.github.io/feeling-responsive/
 
 /* SITE */
 
-Last Updated: 2023/10/05
+Last Updated: 2023/10/10
 Standards: HTML5, CSS3
 Software: Sublime Text, Chrome, Jekyll, Git, Imageoptim, JPEGMini, Gulp.js, Sass
 Components: Foundation Framework, Modernizr, jQuery, Backstretch.js, Reveal

_site/humans.txt

@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ <h1 class="show-for-small-only"><a href="http://localhost:4000/EASI" class="icon
 	<div class="row">
 		<div class="small-12 columns">
 			<a id="logo" href="http://localhost:4000/EASI/" title="EASI – Experiments-As-A-Service-Infrastructure">
-				<!--img src="http://localhost:4000/EASI/assets/img/gallery-example-1.jpg" alt="EASI – Experiments-As-A-Service-Infrastructure"-->
+				<img src="http://localhost:4000/EASI/assets/img/intersect-logo-small.png" alt="EASI – Experiments-As-A-Service-Infrastructure">
 			</a>
 		</div><!-- /.small-12.columns -->
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@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ <h1 class="show-for-small-only"><a href="http://localhost:4000/EASI" class="icon
 <div class="medium-4 columns frontpage-widget">
 
 		<a href="http://localhost:4000/EASI/workshops">
-			<img src="http://localhost:4000/EASI/images/CodeReview.jpg" alt="" />
+			<img src="http://localhost:4000/EASI/images/" alt="" />
 		</a>
 
 	<h2 class="font-size-h3 t10">EASI Workshops</h2>
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ <h2 class="font-size-h3 t10">EASI Workshops</h2>
 <div class="medium-4 columns frontpage-widget">
 
 		<a href="http://localhost:4000/EASI/bootcamps">
-			<img src="http://localhost:4000/EASI/images/bootcamp-photo-1.jpg" alt="" />
+			<img src="http://localhost:4000/EASI/images/" alt="" />
 		</a>
 
 	<h2 class="font-size-h3 t10">EASI Call for Experiments</h2>
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ <h2 class="font-size-h3 t10">EASI Call for Experiments</h2>
 <div class="medium-4 columns frontpage-widget">
 
 		<a href="http://localhost:4000/EASI/training-material">
-			<img src="http://localhost:4000/EASI/images/widget-github-larger.jpg" alt="" />
+			<img src="http://localhost:4000/EASI/images/" alt="" />
 		</a>
 
 	<h2 class="font-size-h3 t10">Training Material</h2>
@@ -448,68 +448,61 @@ <h2 class="font-size-h3 t10">Training Material</h2>
 
 
     <div class="row t30 b20 homepage">
-      <div class="small-12 columns">
-          
-          
-          <p>
-              <!--a href="http://localhost:4000/EASI/announcement/announcing-bootcamp23/" title="2023 INTERSECT Bootcamp Applications Open"><img width="970" src="http://localhost:4000/EASI/images/intersect-poster.jpg" alt=""--></a>
-          </p>
-
-          
-          
-          
-      </div><!-- /.small-12.columns -->
-  </div><!-- /.row -->
-
-
-  <div class="row">
-      <div class="medium-5 columns">
-        <p><strong>Our Softwares</strong></p> 
-        <ul class="side-nav"> 
+        <div class="small-12 columns">
+            
+            
+            <p>
+                <a href="http://localhost:4000/EASI/announcement/announcing-bootcamp23/" title="2023 INTERSECT Bootcamp Applications Open"><img width="970" src="http://localhost:4000/EASI/images/intersect-poster.jpg" alt=""></a>
+            </p>
 
-          <li><a href="http://localhost:4000/EASI/404.html/"><strong>Adaptive Experiments</strong></a></li>
-        
-          <li><a href="http://localhost:4000/EASI/404.html/"><strong>UpGrade</strong></a></li>
-        
-          <li><a href="http://localhost:4000/EASI/404.html"><strong>AB Scribe</strong></a></li>
-        
-          <li class="text-right"><a href="http://localhost:4000/EASI/404.html"><strong>More ›</strong></a></li>
-    
-    
-      
-    </ul>
-          
-      </div><!-- /.medium-5.columns -->
+            
+            
+            
+        </div><!-- /.small-12.columns -->
+    </div><!-- /.row -->
 
 
-      <div class="medium-5 columns">
-          <p><strong>More Articles</strong></p>
-          
+    <div class="row">
+        <div class="medium-6 columns">
+            
+            
+            <h2><a href="http://localhost:4000/EASI/announcement/announcing-bootcamp23/">2023 INTERSECT Bootcamp Applications Open</a></h2>
+            <p>
+                
+                <a href="http://localhost:4000/EASI/announcement/announcing-bootcamp23/" title="Read 2023 INTERSECT Bootcamp Applications Open"><strong>Read More&nbsp;›</strong></a>
+            </p>
+            
+        </div><!-- /.medium-5.columns -->
 
 
+        <div class="medium-6 columns">
+            <p><strong>More Articles</strong></p>
+            
 
 
 
-<ul class="side-nav"> 
 
 
+<ul class="side-nav">
 
 
-    <li><a href="http://localhost:4000/EASI/announcement/intersect-RSE-workshop/"><strong>Adaptive Experiments</strong></a></li>
-  
-    <li><a href="http://localhost:4000/EASI/announcement/intersect-overview-video/"><strong>UpGrade</strong></a></li>
-  
-    <li><a href="http://localhost:4000/EASI/announcement/intersect-SIAM-poster/"><strong>AB Scribe</strong></a></li>
-  
-    <li class="text-right"><a href="http://localhost:4000/EASI/blog/archive/"><strong>More ›</strong></a></li>
 
+    
+      <li><a href="http://localhost:4000/EASI/announcement/intersect-RSE-workshop/"><strong>First INTERSECT Content Development Workshop</strong></a></li>
+    
+      <li><a href="http://localhost:4000/EASI/announcement/intersect-overview-video/"><strong>INTERSECT VIDEO OVERVIEW</strong></a></li>
+    
+      <li><a href="http://localhost:4000/EASI/announcement/intersect-SIAM-poster/"><strong>INTERSECT POSTER at SIAM CSE21</strong></a></li>
+    
+      <li class="text-right"><a href="http://localhost:4000/EASI/blog/archive/"><strong>More ›</strong></a></li>
 
 
+  
 </ul>
 
 
-      </div><!-- /.medium-7.columns -->
-  </div><!-- /.row -->
+        </div><!-- /.medium-7.columns -->
+    </div><!-- /.row -->
 
 
 
@@ -602,8 +595,8 @@ <h5 class="shadow-black">About This Site</h5>
 
 
 <script>
-    $("#masthead").backstretch("http://localhost:4000/EASI/images/header_code_01_cropped.jpg", {fade: 700});
-    $("#masthead-with-text").backstretch("http://localhost:4000/EASI/images/header_code_01_cropped.jpg", {fade: 700});
+    $("#masthead").backstretch("http://localhost:4000/EASI/images/gallery-example-1.jpg", {fade: 700});
+    $("#masthead-with-text").backstretch("http://localhost:4000/EASI/images/gallery-example-1.jpg", {fade: 700});
 </script>
 
 

_site/index.html

@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ <h1 class="show-for-small-only"><a href="http://localhost:4000/EASI" class="icon
 
 
 				<div itemprop="name">
-					<p class="subheadline">INTERSECT Project Summary</p>
+					
 					<h1>Overview</h1>
 				</div>
 			</header>
@@ -370,43 +370,27 @@ <h1>Overview</h1>
 
 
 			<div itemprop="articleSection">
-			<h2 id="innovative-training-enabled-by-a-research-software-engineering-community-of-trainers-intersect">INnovative Training Enabled by a Research Software Engineering Community of Trainers (INTERSECT)</h2>
-
-<p>The breadth and sophistication of software skills required to develop modern research software projects are increasing at an unprecedented pace.
-Undergraduate and graduate education is often insufficient at preparing graduate students for the task of developing high-performing, sustainable research software.
-The best, most cohesive software-related training efforts are targeted at novice users.
-Researchers often try to “run before they can walk” <sup id="fnref:1" role="doc-noteref"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>, and as such, members of the research software community have focused significant effort on providing an on-ramp to programming and research computing.
-Software Carpentry (http://software-carpentry.org), for example, excels at introducing basic programming and computing skills to researchers.
-However, beyond this introductory level, training becomes more patchwork and piecemeal with institutions and organizations across the United States attempting to address the need on their own.
-A recent survey of U.S. postdoctoral researchers found that 95% of respondents use research software <sup id="fnref:2" role="doc-noteref"><a href="#fn:2" class="footnote" rel="footnote">2</a></sup>.
-Of those that use research software 66% stated they could not continue their research without it.
-Despite this reliance, over half (54%) of the respondents who were using this software had received no training.</p>
-
-<p><img src="http://localhost:4000/EASI/images/software-survey.png" alt="Results of Survey of US National Postdoctoral Association Regarding Software Use and Training
-in Research. Results exclude the 5% of respondents who reported they did not use research software" /></p>
-
-<p>There exists a need to train researchers at later stages of their career in more advanced topics to not only make them more productive, but to make the software they create more sustainable.
-Or, to continue the analogy, once they know how to walk, they need to learn how to <em>run</em>.</p>
-
-<p>Therefore, to address this knowledge and skill gap, we are introducing INnovative Training Enabled by a Research Software Engineering Community of Trainers (INTERSECT), which will bring software development and engineering training to intermediate and advanced developers of research software.
-INTERSECT will provide expert-led training courses and workshops focused on building a pipeline of computational researchers trained in best practices for research software development.
-This training will enable these computational researchers to produce better software while simultaneously preparing a subset with the skill set required to enter in the increasingly valued role of a Research Software Engineer.
-INTERSECT will leverage the instructors best suited for providing this intermediate and advanced training, professional Research Software Engineers.</p>
-
-<p>To achieve this goal, INTERSECT will bring together RSE instructors from multiple institutions within the U.S. to maximally exploit the capabilities, knowledge, expertise of a growing RSE community.
-INTERSECT will sponsor a newly-created multi-day bootcamp targeting intermediate and advanced students from U.S. institutions.
-The project will curate the material used in the INTERSECT workshops and training sessions while working with existing frameworks to provide an open-source platform that will allow for continued engagement with the training material and help coordinate the effort across the RSE-trainer community.<br />
-In addition, INTERSECT will sponsor annual RSE-trainer workshops, focused on the curation and communal generation of training material.
-These workshops will connect RSE practitioner-instructors from across the country to not only leverage the knowledge of multiple institutions but also to build and strengthen the community of this group of software professionals.</p>
+			<h2 id="experiments-as-a-service-infrastructure-easi">Experiments-As-a-Service-Infrastructure (EASI)</h2>
+
+<p>Instructional decisions about digital educational resources can impact thousands, from practice problems
+in K12 to tutorial webpages in university and community college. The current versions of resources are
+arguably too infrequently tested against alternatives, in order to use data about learning to choose the
+best.</p>
+
+<p>We aim to make it easier to get evidence from randomized field experiments that compare
+alternative instructional approaches, to identify which versions quantifiably impact learning outcomes. For
+example, experiments have identified methods for making students so motivated that they score half a
+letter grade higher, by identifying how and when to prompt students to reflect on a course’s personal
+relevance (Hulleman &amp; Harackiewicz, 2009)<sup id="fnref:1" role="doc-noteref"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote" rel="footnote">1</a></sup>.</p>
+
+<p>We propose the Experiments-As-a-Service-Infrastructure
+(EASI) to enable a collaborative ecosystem of experimentation in real-world educational settings. EASI
+aims to lower the barriers for designing, deploying, analyzing and adapting educational field experiments .</p>
 
 <div class="footnotes" role="doc-endnotes">
   <ol>
     <li id="fn:1" role="doc-endnote">
-      <p>G Wilson. Software carpentry: lessons learned. F1000Research, 3(62), 2016. <a href="#fnref:1" class="reversefootnote" role="doc-backlink">&#8617;</a></p>
-    </li>
-    <li id="fn:2" role="doc-endnote">
-      <p>U. Nangia and  D.S. Katz. Track 1 Paper: Surveying the US National Postdoctoral Association Regarding Software Use and Training in Research.
- In Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE5.1), 2017. <a href="#fnref:2" class="reversefootnote" role="doc-backlink">&#8617;</a></p>
+      <p>Hulleman, C. S., &amp; Harackiewicz, J. M. (2009). Promoting interest and performance in high school science classes. Science, 326(5958), 1410-1412. <a href="#fnref:1" class="reversefootnote" role="doc-backlink">&#8617;</a></p>
     </li>
   </ol>
 </div>