To answer to all of the above questions and beyond, on March 25, 2023, a team of architecture professors and graduate students hosted a meta tutorial at ASPLOS'23 Conference. The theme was on creating a compelling and sustainable tutorials on open source hardware projects and was organized with Jonathan Balkind (UC Santa Barbara, Assistant Professor), Sagar Karandikar (UC Berkeley, PhD Student), Elba Garza (University of Washington, Assistant Professor), Zach Sisco (UC Santa Barbara, PhD Student) and Nazerke Turtayeva (UC Santa Barbara, PhD Student). The tutorial was intended to help lower the barrier to entry of creating an academic tutorial in architecture and related fields. Attendees expected to develop their goals, learn about best practices, and start to think about the nuts and bolts of running a tutorial. We focused on enabling tutorials which are repeatable to amortise the startup effort and attract interest over longer timescales.
Particularly, these were the topics included:
Defining tutorial goals
Identifying and targeting an audience
The pedagogy of choosing tutorial-friendly content
Hands-on demos - software and hardware
Nuts and bolts: scheduling
Gathering and incorporating attendee feedback
Sustainability and reproducibility
For more information, please refer to the following presentation slides and transcript of the tutorial contents.