Existing IVOA Education Resources and Tutorials

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VO tutorials

Tutorials in English

Graduate level

• CDS Tutorials for SIMBAD, VizieR, Aladin
• The National Virtual Observatory: Tools and Techniques for Astronomical Research
• EuroVO Scientific Tutorials
• PyVO notebooks from NASA
• GAVO Hand-Outs/Tutorials

Education and outreach level

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Non-English tutorials

Graduate level

• Education and Outreach resources at the Spanish Virtual Observatory
• VO Schools from the JVO

Education and outreach level

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Education resources

Resources in English

• Website: EuroVO for Education

EuroVO for education is a project developed within the framework of the European Virtual Observatory (EuroVO) with the aim of diffusing EuroVO data and software to the public, in particular students, teachers and astronomy enthusiasts. Note: EuroVO for education is the project originally called EuroVO -AIDA/WP5.

EuroVO for education offers use cases, pedagogical units, and simplified professional software that will allow a taste of the emotion of scientific research even to those approaching astronomy for the first time or simply wishing to wander between stars.

The educational material of EuroVO for education has been designed specifically for teachers in support of an effective presentation of astronomy in the classroom. However, amateur astronomers too will appreciate both the EuroVO for education software tools that simulate the night sky giving useful information during observations, or during their planning, and the simple and intuitive access and visualization of EuroVO data.

• Booklet: WorldWide Telescope in China (2002-2014)

Non-English resources

• In Chinese: WWT Community in China: provides software, tours, toturials, textbooks, events, and other information
• In Chinese: China-VO Public Channel. Software tools and online services for amateur and the public.
• In Spanish: Education and Outreach resources at the Spanish Virtual Observatory
• In German, Italian, Spanish, French and others: Website: EuroVO for Education
• VOTT: Virtual Observatory Text Treasures
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Astroinformatics Cources

• AST520: "Astroinformatics: Big Data In Astronomy" at Northern Arizona University
• Astronomy 630: "Astrostatistics" at New Mexico State University
• Module Astroinformatics at University of Belgrade
• "Astroinformatics" at University Federico II
• eBook "Big data analysis in Astronomy" at XXX Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics (2018)
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Useful links

• IAU Office of Astronomy for Development
• VOTT: Virtual Observatory Text Treasures. VOTT is a formatted list of educational/outreach texts on using the VO: use cases, tutorials, courses, and such. VOTT contains material for all settings, from pre-school to graduate. It is generated from the documents known to the VO Registry.
• IAU DAEPO WG. IAU Data-driven Astronomical Education and Publish Outreach Working Group.
• Useful Links and Resources at International AstroInformatics Association
• On-line Courses at Astrostatistics and Astroinformatics Portal
• Teaching resources of Virtual Observatory (Invited talk by Chenzhou Cui at ADASS 2021)
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