All, Fabiana Kubke at the University of Auckland has been working very hard to pull together a digital research skills curriculum for a semester-long course. This course builds on existing lessons from the Software Carpentry community and develops some new lessons, assignments and independent activities. I'm sure many members of the Software Carpentry community will be interested in this and be able to contribute to it, so please head over to the Slack channel (linked below) and get involved if it interests you.
Regards, Jonah From: Fabiana Kubke <[email protected]> Date: 20 June 2016 at 20:38 Subject: Digital Skills and scholarship for researchers - peer review request To: Mik Black <[email protected]>, [email protected], Billy Meinke <[email protected]>, Kaitlin Thaney <[email protected]>, Karthik Ram <[email protected]>, [email protected] Dear all, You are getting this email because at some point you were involved or showed interest in our training suite for digital skills for researchers. We are now almost live and almost ready to deploy to the first set of students, and we hope we will be able to do some research on this pilot to tweak the suite into an even more awesome version. The 'course' can be found here: http://digital-skills-for-researchers.github.io/coursebook/modules/sharing/ and we are now asking you for some friendly and constructive peer review. What you are looking at: We were tasked to produce a suite of stand alone modules that covered the needs we identified. We did that (although we are still pushing content and material). Each of these are built with the idea that they should be able to be pushed at any level as a stand alone or in combination within other courses or as professional development for staff (in class or as a self-learning resource). We were also tasked with piloting a credit earning course. For that we are stitching elements of those modules not in chronological order but against the narrative of a student-specific project which runs throughout the semester, to give each student an authentic context in which to learn and practice the learned skills. This is the pilot that starts late july, and we are still collecting projects and pairing students with their projects. Assessment along the course will be skill-based (by earning a specific set of 'badges'), peer review, reflection, collaboration, etc with a final assessment in the form of a 'software paper'. During the first half of the semester students will learn basic skills on project management, data management, shell, scripting, etc - then during the study break they will do the 'programming' related to their project, and the second part of the semester is about tidying it all up and taking it to the next level to get the project ready for the final 'paper'. What do we need from you? Do the learning objectives make sense? Are we missing something? Do you have resources that are openly licenced that you could share with us? Are the principles we are teaching appropriate to facilitate cross-institutional collaboration? Are there any domain-specific things that we should consider? Anything from your experience teaching similar stuff that could be useful for us to know before we go ahead? Anything specific you would like to know that we can capture as we move along? Anyone else we should send the link to? (please do!) Anyone who would like to contribute? Contact us and we'll let you in - no problem. Please be aware all of it is licenced under CC-BY so if you feel you want to hold your knowledge to yourself.. well... We are also on slack https://digi-research-skills.slack.com which you are welcome to join and keep the conversation going. I am planning a series of blog posts to describe the project in more detail. The links will probably appear on slack. Thanks to all of you that have given us awesom support and encouragement throughout - you know you have contributed to this happening - so if nothing else, give yourself a good pat on the back. Please email me with any questions, or even better, put them on slack. If you need any invites to anything also let me know. This is an open project. Cheers to all Fabiana -- M Fabiana Kubke Chair Advisory Panel Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand Department of Anatomy | University of Auckland | New Zealand (+64) 9 373-7599 Ext 86002 | (+64)9 923 6002 (direct) | Mobile: (+64) 210 437 121 Skype: superfabs | http://twitter.com/Kubke | http://twitter.com/DrKupcake | http://buildingblogsofscience.wordpress.com | -- M Fabiana Kubke Chair Advisory Panel Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand Department of Anatomy | University of Auckland | New Zealand (+64) 9 373-7599 Ext 86002 | (+64)9 923 6002 (direct) | Mobile: (+64) 210 437 121 Skype: superfabs | http://twitter.com/Kubke | http://twitter.com/DrKupcake | http://buildingblogsofscience.wordpress.com |
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