Training and Events

We regularly host conferences and training workshops for STACK. You can find videos from previous events on our YouTube channel.

Upcoming events

Here is a list of upcoming events:

Title	Date	Location	Description
Using STACK in more advanced courses	April 2023 (dates TBC)	Hybrid event: The University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell building and online
International Meeting of the STACK Community 2023	24 - 26 April 2023	Tallinn, Estonia stack2023.com	A forum for all STACK users to exchange experiences, ideas and research topics
African STACK Conference for Undergraduate Mathematics	19 - 23 June 2023	Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kakamega, Kenya	A conference to enable African educators with experience on STACK to define a roadmap for transformation of African Undergraduate Maths Education
International Meeting of the STACK Community 2024	April 2024	Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule (OTH), Amberg-Weiden, Germany	A forum for all STACK users to exchange experiences, ideas and research topics.

Workshops in 2020

During 2020 we ran a series of online workshops, with support from the LMS, Universitas 21, and the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh.

You can access recordings and materials from these workshops through the links below:

Title	Date	Location	Description
Workshop: Effective use of Maxima	2 Dec 2020 15:00-17:00 GMT	Online. Course page - effective use of Maxima	Learn how mathematics educators use Maxima effectively with STACK, and how to use more advanced Maxima techniques to improve your own STACK questions.
Workshop: Addressing common student errors	25 Nov 2020 15:00-17:00 GMT	Online. Course page - student errors 25-11-20	Gain insight into common student errors based on mathematics education research, and get practical experience of using STACK to detect and give feedback on errors.
Workshop: Assessment of proofs in STACK	7 September 2020 15:00-16:30 BST	Online. Course page - assessment of proofs	Learn about important practical findings from educational research on how to teach mathematical proof effectively, and hear about practical approaches to assessing proof online using tools like STACK.
Workshop: Getting started with STACK	20 July 2020 10:00-12:00 BST	Online. Course page - getting started 20-07-20	Learn about the features of STACK and write your first STACK question with experts on hand to help.
Workshop: addressing common student errors	3 July 2020 14:00-16:00 BST	Online. Course page - student errors	Gain insight into common student errors based on mathematics education research, and get practical experience of using STACK to detect and give feedback on errors.
Workshop: quality questions and assessing proof	19 June 2020 10:00-12:00 BST	Online. Course page - quality questions	Learn about advanced features of STACK that help to make sure your questions work reliably, and get tips from experienced authors on how to write polished questions. In the second half, learn about ways to assess proof using STACK.
Workshop: getting started with STACK	15 June 2020 10:00-15:00 BST	Online. Course page - getting started	Hear from some experienced users about how they use STACK in variety of courses, then write your first STACK question with experts on hand to help.

Past events

A list of past STACK workshops and conferences:

Title	Date	Location	Description
Using JSX graphs in STACK	8 Dec 2022	Hybrid event: The University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell building and online	This workshop will provide hands-on practise on how to create JSXGraphs and how to use JSXGraph in STACK assessments.
Using STACK to put the "book inside the quiz"	16 Nov 2022	Hybrid event: The University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell building and online	This workshop discusses how we have used a metaphore of "putting the book inside automatically assessed online quizzes" in a variety of university mathematics courses.
Mathematics STACK Workshop	4th-8th Jul 2022	Maseno University, Kenya	The goal of this workshop is to help lecturers prepare the courses they will be teaching at their institutions using STACK. There will be a parallel session on authoring STACK questions.
EAMS 2022	13 - 24 Jun 2022	Online. eams.ncl.ac.uk	There will be various sessions of interest to STACK users at this conference.
International Meeting of the STACK Community 2022	24-28 Apr 2022	Leoben, Austria unileoben.ac.at/stack22	A forum for all STACK users to exchange experiences, ideas and research topics
EAMS 2021	21 Jun - 2 July 2021	Online. eams.ncl.ac.uk	There will be various sessions of interest to STACK users at this conference.
The 4th International STACK Conference	26-29 Apr 2021	TTK University of Applied Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia stack21.edu.ee Proceedings	This conference aims to act as a forum for the exchange of experience, ideas and research associated with implementing STACK. The target group is academics who teach undergraduate and postgraduate STEM courses in higher education institutions.
EAMS 2020	Week of 22 Jun 2020	Online. eams.ncl.ac.uk	There will be various sessions of interest to STACK users at this conference.
The 3rd International STACK Conference	27 Apr 2020	Online. 3rd International STACK Conference Website	The aim of the conference is to provide a platform for academics, researchers, and scholars, to address common challenges, share knowledge and ideas as well as recent trends and brainstorm creative solutions in the field of STACK.
Putting educational research into practice in HE Mathematics and Statistics teaching	29-30 April 2019	The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Putting research into practice conference website	Day 1: Putting educational research into practice in HE Mathematics and Statistics teaching. Day 2: The 2nd International STACK Conference.
The 1st International STACK Conference	15-16 Nov 2018	Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Fürth, Germany www.stack-konferenz.de	The mission of the Conference is to offer a forum for the STACK Community, to exchange ideas about possibilities and challenges in creating questions, to get closer to solving technical questions and to shape the future of STACK.