Date: 3 - 31 March 2023

Timezone: Amsterdam

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This course introduces trainers in the life sciences to learning principles, training techniques, lesson, session, course, and material design as well as assessment and feedback. It offers guidance, ideas and tips for designing training/teaching, development and delivery on training activities, all based on research-driven educational principles. Examples and discussions will also focus on the challenges presented by academic teaching.

This course has been developed for and by trainers in bioinformatics but is suitable for all trainers and educators in higher education. It is part of the ELIXIR-GOBLET Train-the-Trainer programme.

The course will run very Friday morning of March 2023 (9 am – 1 pm) and is organized by ELIXIR UK

City: Bradford

Country: United Kingdom

Prerequisites:

Knowledge / competencies
This course is designed for scientists with some to little or no teaching experience.
Technical
You don't need to bring a computer. It's all based on human interactions.

Learning objectives:

At the end of the course, the participants are expected to:

tell which learning principles a good trainer should have in mind
describe at least three training techniques drawing on learning principles
design a training session and a course
develop assessment questionnaires
tell what types of material are needed for each part of a training session

Organizer: University of Bradford

Host institutions: University of Bradford

Capacity: 20

Event types:

  • Workshops and courses

Cost basis: Free to all


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