I’m interested!

Do you use computing in your science, social science, math, humanities, or arts courses? Your students will benefit from additional material to help them get comfortable with the underlying computing concepts? The OCCTIVE library contains short videos designed to integrate with your course activities. In these videos, students get clear, brief, engaging explanations that help them more confidently apply computing knowledge.

The OCCTIVE videos can be helpful whether you use a little computing or a lot of computing in your course – you select the videos that make the most sense based on the computational elements! For example, OCCTIVE has been used in a biology course in which students use R for data analysis in just three lab sessions. It has also been used in an economics course where R is used in the majority of class sessions, and in a physics course that uses Python programming.

We are always interested in having more faculty adopt the OCCTIVE library. If you are interested in integrating OCCTIVE into one or more of your courses and helping us collect data to evaluate the effectiveness of OCCTIVE, please complete this form.

If you decide you’d like to attend our adoption workshop in November, 2025, head here instead.

If you have questions, please reach out to the project team.

OCCTIVE is supported by the NSF grant “The efficacy of OCCTIVE: A computing-concepts video library for students and peer tutors in multidisciplinary contexts” (award nos. 2337251, 2337252, 2337253, 2337254). The first version was developed as part of the NSF grant “Evaluating Frameworks for Incorporating Computing Across the Curriculum” (award nos. 1935113, 1935099, 1935061).

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