ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Train the trainer

Overview

Delivering excellent training is a challenge in any domain, and bioinformatics is no exception. Excellent training requires good planning and careful thinking, just like a well-formulated research plan. This workshop will be a forum to learn general best practices in how to establish successful bioinformatics courses, with particular emphasis on continuing education. The course is an ELIXIR course organized by ELIXIR-CH and ELIXIR-IT, with support from ELIXIR-EXCELERATE funds.

Audience

ELIXIR Train-the-Trainer courses are addressed to both scientists with some experience in training and scientists with little or no previous experience, who believe teaching is a relevant aspect of their professional development and is or may become important in their career.

Learning objectives

At the end of the course attendees will:

Get acquainted with learning principles and how they apply to training
Be able to select and utilise training techniques that can be used to enhance learner engagement and participation
Learn about session, course, and materials design
Learn how to use assessment and feedback in training

The participants will be asked to prepare a report as assignment, to be returned in the two weeks after the course.

Learning outcomes

Learners can tell which learning principles a good trainer should have in mind
Learners can describe at least three training techniques drawing on learning principles
Learners can design a training session and a course
Learners can develop assessment questionnaires
Learners can tell what types of material are needed for each part of a training session

Prerequisites

Knowledge / competencies: No particular competencies are required, however the participants will be selected based on their prior experience in teaching and training, and their motivations to attend this course. Please briefly describe these in the Comments field of the registration form below.

Location

UniL Sorge, University of Lausanne

Application

The registration fees are covered by ELIXIR-EXCELERATE funds. This includes course content material and coffee breaks.

Deadline for registration is set to January 10. Please note that participation to SIB courses is subject to this and other general conditions, available here.

You will be informed by email of your registration confirmation.

Additional information

Instructors: Allegra Via, ELIXIR-IT, CNR, Istituto Italiano di Bioinformatica, Roma, IT

Organizer: Diana Marek, ELIXIR-CH, SIB Training Group

You are welcome to register to the SIB courses mailing-list to be informed of all future courses and workshops, as well as all important deadlines using the form here.

For more information, please contact training@sib.swiss.

Schedule

16 Jan

10.00 - 10.30 Introductions, who is who and what we need to achieve

10.30 - 12.30 Session 1: Review of learning principles and how they apply to training

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch

13.30 - 15.30 Session 1: Review of learning principles and how they apply to training (cont.)

15.30 - 19.00 Session 2: Training techniques that can be used to enhance learner engagement and participation

19:00 - 19:30 Wrap-up, and assignment

19.30 - 21.30 Dinner with feedback and discussions

17 Jan

09.00 - 13.30 Unix command line course

13.30 - 14.30 Lunch

14.30 - 18.30 Session 3: Session, course, and materials design

19.30 - 21.30 Dinner with feedback and discussions

18 Jan

09.00 - 12.30 Session 4: Assessment and feedback in training

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch with Session 4’s feedback and discussions

13.30 - 15.00 Course feedback and wrap-up