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ELIXIR node event ELIXIR-GOBLET Train-the-Trainer

in collaboration with ELIXIR-SE, SciLifeLab Training Hub, PHENET consortia

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Date: 13 - 15 September 2023

Timezone: Amsterdam

Duration: 2,5 days

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This course offers guidance, ideas and tips for designing training/teaching, development and delivery on training activities, all based on research-driven educational principles. This course will cover 4 main topics:
- Learning principles and how they apply to training and teaching
- Design and plan session, course, materials
- Teaching techniques to enhance learner engagement and participation
- Assessment and feedback in training and teaching
Note! The course is highly interactive and hence it is important that you, as a participant, actively contribute to all sessions and elements of the course.

Contact: [email protected] (Jessica Lindvall)

Venue: SciLifeLab Uppsala - Navet, Husargatan 3

City: Uppsala

Country: Sweden

Postcode: 752 37

Prerequisites:

Whoever is interested in becoming a trainer/instructor, or improving your training skills. If you have questions like the following ones, this course may be very helpful to you.
- How learning works?
- How do I use learning principles and theories to improve my teaching/training?
- How do I make my teaching/training more engaging and effective?
- How should I adjust my teaching/training to different types of learners?
- How do I ensure learning progress?
- How can I assess whether my students are actually understanding my lessons? Are they actually learning?
- What is the best balance between theory and practice?
- How can I best assess whether learning is occurring and/or has occurred?
- What works in a classroom and what doesn’t?

Learning objectives:

  • To get acquainted with Learning principles and how they apply to training
  • To be able to select and use training techniques that can help enhance learner engagement and participation
  • To learn how to use assessment and feedback in training
  • To learn about session, course, and materials design

Organizer: SciLifeLab Training Hub, ELIXIR-SE, GOBLET-ELIXIR Train-the-Trainer, PHENET

Target audience: This course is suited for whoever is interested in becoming a trainer/instructor, or improving their training skills. If you have questions like the following ones, this course may be very helpful to you. How learning works? How can I use learning principles and theories to improve my teaching/training? How can I make my teaching/training more engaging and effective? How should I adjust my teaching/training to different types of learners? How can I assess whether my students are actually understanding my lessons? Are they actually learning? What is the best balance between theory and practice? How can I best assess whether learning is occurring and/or has occurred? What works in a classroom and what doesn’t?

Capacity: 25

Event types:

  • Workshops and courses

Credit / Recognition: Certificate after course ends

Cost basis: Cost incurred by all

Cost: kr 2000.0 (SEK)

Sponsors: ELIXIR-SE, SciLifeLab Training Hub, PHENET consortia

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