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A framework to assess the quality and impact of bioinformatics training across ELIXIR - Kim T. Gurwitz et al. Speaking of training - A lot of us run online training programmes, but fewer have systematic ways of following up and quantifying how it impacted on trainee’s success in their research. In this paper, the ELIXIR project - an EU-wide set of life sciences resources - reports on their quality and impact of training courses with four years of self-reported survey data of almost three thousand...
Continue...My Screencasting Workflow - Laurie Barth Screencasts can be very useful for training materials. Very experienced screen caster Laurie Barth offers her workflow here. Barth records the screencast without audio, then adds annotations, and only when after that does she record an audio trac narrating it. That extra step seems like it would take extra time, but I’ve tried the whole narrating-while-typing thing before and it’s pretty hard and took either extra takes or living with lots of “umms”. I’ll try this next time.
Continue...Ten simple rules for teaching applied programming in an authentic and immersive online environment - Frances Hooley, Peter J. Freeman, Angela C. Davies, PLoS Comp Bio This is a nice set of recommendations of teaching long-form courses online. The lessons come from the authors’ experiences teaching a masters degree and a postgraduate certificate in clinical bioinformatics in particular, but its recommendations should apply quite broadly to teaching researchers computing skills, and fall under: Teaching - they emphasize the pedagogy quite a bit, especially important in...
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