Dear all, we'd like to invite you to the "ELIXIR Workshop for Galaxy training material and skills improvement", which will be held 21-23 May at the Earlham Institute in Norwich, UK:
http://www.earlham.ac.uk/elixir-workshop-galaxy-training-material-and-skills...
The Galaxy Training Network (GTN) has been working for several years with GOBLET and the ELIXIR Training Platform to create material and deliver training for scientists, developers and system administrators. A selection of 72 tutorials, developed by more than 60 contributors, is already available at http://training.galaxyproject.org/ In this workshop, we intend to improve the participants’ understanding of learning principles, training techniques and best practices for materials preparation. We will then work together to expand the existing collection of Galaxy training materials by covering more topics relevant to the ELIXIR use cases, add missing annotation and metadata and make the materials easily accessible.
The workshop will start with a 1-day "Train the Trainer" course, similar to the Carpentries' Instructor Training and the ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Train the Trainer. Here Galaxy trainers will develop an insight into different learning styles, understand what makes a good trainer, and learn new approaches to training from experienced trainers. This course will help them to better contribute and shape the materials during the hackathon.
This workshop is kindly sponsored by ELIXIR-UK and the ELIXIR Training Platform.
Registration closes soon, hurry up! https://www.eiseverywhere.com/galaxy
We look forward to seeing many of you in Norwich!
Nicola
-- Nicola Soranzo, Ph.D. Data Infrastructure & Algorithms group Earlham Institute Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UZ, UK http://www.earlham.ac.uk/nicola-soranzo