ELIXIR TRAINING Professional skills for managing and exploiting data Patricia Palagi, Celia van Gelder, Louisa Bellis, Gabriella Rustici ELIXIR Track, ISMB 2017, Prague

ELIXIR Training: Professional skills for managing and exploiting data Mission: to establish an interactive ELIXIR-wide training community across all member states that coherently delivers ELIXIR-related training

ELIXIR Training: Professional skills for managing and exploiting data Mission: to establish an interactive ELIXIR-wide training community across all member states that coherently delivers ELIXIR-related training Develop and deliver training in selected gap areas for: Researchers (TtR) Developers and Infrastructure operators (TtD) Trainers (TtT)

ELIXIR Training: Professional skills for managing and exploiting data Mission: to establish an interactive ELIXIR-wide training community across all member states that coherently delivers ELIXIR-related training Develop and deliver training in selected gap areas for: Researchers (TtR) Developers and Infrastructure operators (TtD) Trainers (TtT) Build sustainable Training Infrastructure Technical: TeSS Training portal, e-Learning platform, Virtual coffee room , Best practices guidelines, Metrics Community

ELIXIR Training is a Community Effort ELIXIR Training builds on and complements national training activities in 21 ELIXIR Nodes Other collaborators EmTraG (metabolomics)

Training events and resources for: Researchers Developers & infrastructure operators Trainers

Recent history of ELIXIR Training

Train the Researcher & the Developer 24 workshops (6 of them as synchronous e-learning) Software and Data Carpentry HPC Python, Unix/Linux command line Workflow tools (Galaxy, Chipster /RNAseq ) Use Case community driven trainings: Variant analysis (with the Rare Diseases) Genome assembly & annotation (with Plants, Marine metagenomics, Capacity Building) Metagenomics (with Marine metagenomics) AAI Workshop = e-learning course

Train the Trainer Objectives: To deliver a framework with associated materials and guidelines for training new trainers across ELIXIR To build a highly-skilled and coherent community of mindful instructors

Train the Trainer Teaching elements: Principles of learning and how they apply to training Training techniques for enhancing learner engagement and participation Designing engaging sessions, materials and courses Assessment and feedback in training and developing reflective practice Seven pilot workshops across 5 Nodes, where 53 trainers from 12 Nodes were trained

We are building Training infrastructure Community

TeSS – ELIXIR Training Portal Platform to disseminate and discover training materials and events Aggregating information from ELIXIR nodes and various 3rd-party content providers July 2017: 234 upcoming events 793 training materials 40 content providers https://tess.elixir-europe.org/    

Events - calendar and E-mail notifications Once we have the data in TeSS we can implement novel and useful features. Subscription service for example. Plans to extend this to a subscription service – input twitter, email and other social media handles and receive notifcations as and when other events that meet your criteria appear.

TeSS - ELIXIR Training Portal - Materials Search for text and order results Filter By: Content Provider Scientific Topic Tool Standards Policies Target Audience Keyword Difficulty Level Author Contributor Licence ELIXIR Node

TeSS – ELIXIR Training Portal - Workflows READemption workflow by Hedi Peterson https://tess.elixir-europe.org/workflows/reademption

The Virtual Coffee Room Virtual Community Space for developers & infrastructure operators A communication platform     http://cafe.elixir.ut.ee/

e-Learning Platform EeLP White paper published: Defining a lingua franca for the ELIXIR/GOBLET e-learning ecosystem https://zenodo.org/record/166378

Assessing training quality, good practices and impact Developed: Set of metrics (KPI) Overall satisfaction Participant numbers Gender Career level Employment sector Country of employment Where did the participant see the event being advertised Would they be happy to be contacted in the future (long term feedback) Standard feedback survey

Sample feedback results so far (9 Nodes, >100 events)

Training Metadata Standards A minimum set of descriptors for training materials - under review by ELIXIR members, GOBLET and Bioschemas Hackathons hosted so far: NGS training material curation (2015, 2016) Galaxy training materials reusability (2017) Descriptors were applied to existing sets of materials and refined.

Competencies – inspired by the ISCB work Aim to develop, refine and extend current competencies to cover new and emerging fields. Have been used to define core competencies in Is currently used to develop core competencies in their field of data science by Will be used by ELIXIR to describe training events and learning paths with the involvement of the industry

Promoting computing skills Collaboration agreement with Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry Foundations to: provide Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry workshops produce common training materials train SWC/DC instructors Paper published: Developing a strategy for computational lab skills training through Software and Data Carpentry: Experiences from the ELIXIR Pilot action (F1000).

Acknowledgements ELIXIR Training Coordinators EXCELERATE Subtask Leaders ELIXIR Training Community We confirm we have permission to use images from subjects included in this presentation

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