# Pathbird: Experiential teaching & learning platform for computational courses

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**Category:** Teaching & Outreach\
**Created:** [June 10, 2021, 10:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pathbird-experiential-teaching-learning-platform-for-computational-courses/62705 "2021-06-10T22:23:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![travigd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/travigd/32/4746_2.png) [@travigd](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/travigd)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 10:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pathbird-experiential-teaching-learning-platform-for-computational-courses/62705/1 "2021-06-10T22:23:49Z")

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Hi, friends & colleagues!

I’m posting here to solicit feedback from people in the Julia community about the cool stuff my startup is working on in educational technology! [Pathbird is an online teaching/learning platform](https://pathbird.com/) that lets you create engaging, experiential, and self-paced lessons for your students ([like a living textbook](https://news.umich.edu/level-up-video-games-inspire-new-living-textbook-for-computational-sciences/)).

We recently spun out of UMich’s College of Engineering as a separate company and want to focus on supporting faculty teaching computational courses. [Professor Raj Rao](https://rajrao.engin.umich.edu/) has been using the platform [in his course](https://ece.engin.umich.edu/academics/course-information/course-descriptions/eecs-505/) for the past two years and we’d love to be useful in your courses as well. We’ve been using it to teach data science with Julia (and a bit of Python) and also have upcoming support for R. For us, it’s been a great way to do flipped-classroom lectures as well as labs and homeworks, and I’m excited to see how other people could use it!

Right now, we’re really looking for feedback (and potentially early partners/beta users if the stars align!).

I’d really love to hear feedback from the Julia community about what we’re doing. If you teach any kind of computational course, **please reach out to me at [travis@pathbird.com](mailto:travis@pathbird.com)** – I’d love to chat and show you around the platform. (Also happy to answer questions here!)

Thanks all!