Training individuals at different times sound most challenging to address. The live-coding workshop atmosphere is really crucial for learners to feel comfortable asking questions or asking for help. My worry is that any sort of individualized or self-learning experience is consequently going to result in gaps. If it's possible to get trainees to workshops held at local conferences, etc. that might be a workaround to having a workshop specifically for everyone on the grant.
re: online resources RStudio has some interactive tutorials set up using their cloud service and the `learnr` package. They run entirely within the web browser, so might be interesting to look at. https://rstudio.cloud/learn/primers re: DataCamp I think their lessons are top-notch, but wouldn't recommend sending any business their way, for solidarity reasons: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/daveyalba/datacamp-sexual-harassment-metoo-tech-startup Best, -- Hao Ye [email protected] On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 12:40 PM Clara Llebot <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello carpentries friends. > > > > I am a librarian that often teaches carpentries lessons. I am > collaborating with a researcher that is thinking about developing a data > management training for the new grad students and postdocs in a research > grant. A lot of the content that she is hoping for matches lessons in the > carpentries: spreadsheet best practices, R, python, version control. > However, because of the characteristics of the grant (several institutions, > 5 years, several grad students and postdocs hired at different moments), it > is not realistic to organize software/data carpentry workshops, the > students will not coincide in time and space. A great part of the value of > a carpentry workshop is the personalized interaction with instructors and > helpers in the moment, of course. But since this is not an option for her > team, I was wondering if somebody has adapted carpentries lessons to a more > “hybrid” format, something that will not be an in person workshop, but that > will be more than just a link to a lesson that the student must follow on > their own. > > I will also be interested to hear if you know of other resources that > would allow students to get similar training than the training they would > get in a carpentry workshop, without the in person element. The instructor > mentioned DataCamp, which I am not very familiar with. > > As always, thanks for your help! > > Clara > > > > -- > > *Clara Llebot Lorente, *Data Management Specialist > > Oregon State University | The Valley Library | 5417371192 > > *Pronouns: she, her, hers* > > *The Carpentries <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/latest>* / discuss / > see discussions <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss> + > participants <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/members> + > delivery > options <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription> > Permalink > <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T5e4e7987c2f5839f-Mcfbda066c99c888d2440ac0c> > > ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T5e4e7987c2f5839f-M971f8fa612aa29b0a037e441 Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
