Pilot online instructor training
Next week the Institute will co-run Software and Data Carpentry Instructor training in an online format but lasting full two days, just like the face-to-face training we co-run in Norwich last year. A group of new instructors from Sheffield and Leeds will take part in the training.
The training will be run by Aleksandra Pawlik (the Institute's training lead) together with Greg Wilson (Software Carpentry Foundation) and Warren Code from the UBC Science Centre for Learning and Teaching. The training is designed on the basis of the feedback and experienced gathered so far from running training in three formats:
- an in-person two- or three-day class,
- a multi-week online class
- a hybrid version in which the trainees are co-located, but the trainer comes in via the web.
Greg Wilson wrote more about this online two-day training in one of his recent blog posts. Thanks to the collaboration on this pilot training with Mike Croucher and Mike Griffiths (both University of Sheffield) and Martin Callaghan (School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds), we are able to increase the instructor pool in the UK and test out how this mode of instructor training works. The long term goal is to run more instances of instructor training and the online version could be very helpful with that.