FAIR Training Material by Design
September 18, 2024 @ 08:00 – September 19, 2024 @ 17:00 CEST
This course is composed of 7 sessions, based on the FAIR training handbook and 10 simple rules to make material FAIR publication. All sessions are structured in a way that complement each other aiming to introduce participants with a theoretical & hands-on approach of how to create FAIR material by design.
Syllabus
Please see the course website, which will be updated regularly, for more information:
Sessions to be covered over the 2 days (Note: sessions and content might be slightly changed)
Session 0 – what is Open and FAIR
Session 1 – Syllabus and documentation
Session 2 – Training material formats and interoperability
Session 3 – Illustrations, aesthetics and acknowledgements
Session 4 – Making e-learning FAIR, challenges and possibilities
Session 5 – Releases and use of unique identifiers
Session 6 – Course metadata, standardisation and structure
Topics covered will include:
- FAIR vs OPEN training material
- Training material documentation and reproducibility
- (ontology, Learning Outcomes,etc)
- Illustrations, keeping it FAIR
- E-learning and videos, challenges and solutions to keep it FAIR
- Unique identifiers and version control
Activities are thought to increase the technical skills and critical thinking during the development of a new training course. From A to Z participants are going to be challenged to work in a group to build a FAIR lesson on a topic to be presented at the end of the course. The topic will be disclaimed during the sessions, come inspired!
Important Dates
Application open: 11-April-2024
Application closes: 23-August-2024
Confirmation to applicants 30-August-2024
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.
Participants need to bring a laptop.
There are no fees for this course.
All are welcome! Particularly interesting for trainers and instructors that design-develop-deliver short-format training.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- create FAIR and open training material from the start
- apply FAIR principles to all elements of training material
- use AI tools in content creation of FAIR training material
Prerequisites
The following is a list of skills required for being able to follow the course and complete the exercises:
- Be familiar with GitHub
If not, we advise you to have a look at the GitHub Skills pages and/or Github courses in Glittr.org in order to acquire the following:- Basic knowledge: To be able to make commits, create branches and issues, make pull requests.
- Desirable, but not essential skills increasing the output of the course include:
- Pre-reading the FAIR Training Handbook
- Pre-reading 10 simple rules to make material FAIR publication
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