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

2. 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

3. 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)

4. 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

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

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

7. Recent history of ELIXIR Training

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. We are building
Training infrastructure
Community

12. 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

13. 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, and other social media handles and receive notifcations as and when other events that meet your criteria appear.

14. 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

15. TeSS – ELIXIR Training Portal - Workflows
READemption workflow by Hedi Peterson

16. The Virtual Coffee Room
Virtual Community Space for developers & infrastructure operators
A communication platform

17. e-Learning Platform EeLP
White paper published: Defining a lingua franca for the ELIXIR/GOBLET e-learning ecosystem

18. 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

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

20. 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.

21. 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

22. 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).

23. Acknowledgements ELIXIR Training Coordinators
EXCELERATE Subtask Leaders
ELIXIR Training Community
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24. Thank you!