Explore Sample Course Materials

Teaching resources designed for accessibility, flexibility, and collaboration

Cal-ICOR’s course materials are built to make high-quality data science education easy to adopt and adapt across California’s diverse higher-education institutions. These resources reflect our core principles: accessible instruction, resource sharing, and a collaborative ecosystem that empowers instructors to teach data science confidently, regardless of prior experience or technical capacity.

Our materials are designed to integrate seamlessly into existing courses or serve as a foundation for new ones. In a Cal-ICOR partnership, our team works with you to tailor these materials to your campus, discipline, and student needs. This page offers a preview of what participating instructors can use and build upon.

What You’ll Find Below

Below you’ll find four key components of the Cal-ICOR resource ecosystem. Together, they illustrate the kind of curriculum, infrastructure, and support partners can expect.

Project Documentation

Comprehensive guides explaining Cal-ICOR's instructional model, technical architecture, and recommended teaching practices. These documents clarify how modules fit together, how computing environments work, and how faculty can integrate materials with minimal lift.

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GitHub Organization

A curated collection of open-source repositories containing Jupyter notebooks, assignment templates, datasets, utilities and scaffolds, and example workflows. These materials span multiple disciplines and are ready for instructors to fork, remix, or combine.

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Interactive Textbook of Interdisciplinary Modules

A browsable, student-friendly online textbook featuring hands-on modules across fields such as health, social science, environmental studies, business, and more. Each module is designed with real-world data, annotated examples, and activities that promote applied learning.

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Intro Calculus in Jupyter

Open-source Jupyter notebooks for Calculus. Students explore limits, derivatives, extrema, Newton's Method, area under a curve, and the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus through interactive visualizations and guided coding activities.

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What Students and Instructors Are Saying

Feedback from calculus classrooms using Cal-ICOR Jupyter notebooks.

I think once I knew what I was supposed to do, the notebook did help me to understand limits a lot better, so that is one good characteristic.

— Calculus student

I thought this assignment was challenging but in a good way. This is my first experience with coding and I learned so much in just the icebreaker and even though I was stuck and I told myself I would come back to it a few days later I eventually got it and it's mostly trial and error and trying again.

— First time Jupyter user

The ICOR program at UC Berkeley has had a meaningful impact on both my students and myself by creating connections between programming and Calculus I content. Through this collaboration, we developed and refined Jupyter notebooks over several semesters that allow students to explore core calculus topics computationally. The result has been a set of classroom tools that help students experience calculus in a new way while simultaneously building confidence with programming and computational thinking.

Kathy Williamson Mathematics Instructor, Laney College

How These Resources Fit Into a Cal-ICOR Partnership

When your campus works with Cal-ICOR, these materials are just the starting point. Our team helps you:

Identify the right modules for your course and discipline
Adapt materials to your pedagogical style and learning outcomes
Integrate resources into a cloud environment with zero local setup
Build instructor capacity through one-on-one guidance and ongoing support

You don't need to navigate any of this alone. We support the process from exploration to classroom implementation.

Access and Licensing

All Cal-ICOR materials are open source and freely available for educational use. Partner institutions receive additional support for customization and implementation.

Textbook and notebooks: BSD-3-Clause License
Source code: Available on GitHub

Ready to Explore What Cal-ICOR Can Look Like on Your Campus?

Even if you're just starting to think about data-enabled teaching, or wondering whether the timing is right, our team would love to start a conversation.

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Let's discuss your goals and how we can support your instructors and students.