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# Training Steering Group September 2024
**Date & Time: Sept 9, 10:15-12:00
**Connection details:** https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/62955236256
**TrSG book:** https://hackmd.io/@NBIS-training-steering-group/TrSG/%2F5SYwXztaTpKrn95vDPh1jw

## Welcome 🙌🏽

## Code of Conduct reminder
Adopted from the [Recurse Rules](https://www.recurse.com/social-rules)
* Be respectful, honest, inclusive, accommodating, appreciative, and open to learning from everyone else.
* Do not attack, demean, disrupt, harass, or threaten others or encourage such behavior.
* Be patient, allow others to speak, and use the zoom reactions & chat if you would like to voice something. 
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## :hourglass_flowing_sand: Agenda:

| Duration    | Activity                                                     | Time        |
| ----------- |:------------------------------------------------------------ |:----------- |
| 5 mins      | Welcome and housekeeping                                     | 10:15-10:20 |
| 20 mins     | (information) NBIS TrC                               | 10:20-10:40 |
| 20 mins     | (information) NBIS TrLs              | 10:40-11:00
 **10 mins**  | **Break**                                                                       | 11:00-11:10 |
| 10 mins     | Long Term feedback - results                                    | 11:10-11:20 |
| 10 mins     | Course description template                                    | 11:20-11:30 |
| 15 mins     | GlittR or Course descriptions                                  | 11:30-11:45 |
| 10 mins     | AOB (any other business)                                   | 11:45-11:55 |
| 5 mins     | Wrap-up & communications                                   | 11:55-12:00 |

## Links & Resources:


## Rollcall:

🗣 Name/🐸 pronouns/✍🏼 Team affiliation and Site

Richel/ him-him / SCoRe, Uppsala
Elin / she-her/ TrC, Uppsala
Katja/she-her/MISB, Lund
Louella/she/ HaC Lund
Tomas/He/ EvoBio, Uppsala/Chalmers
Stephan / - / DM, Uppsala/Chalmers
Caroline/she-her/AIDA
Anna / she-her/CMB, Uppsala

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## Information from NBIS TrC
- New video conference equipment in Solna AIR&FIRE
- Big Talk autumn lineup https://www.scilifelab.se/organizer/big-talks/
    - 4 planned during the autumn
    - some funding left
- GOBLET Conference https://www.udst.edu.qa/icoblet2024
- Teaching Literature Club https://nbisweden.github.io/teaching_literature_club/ (see there for all questions :-) 
- Support manager meeting on Wednesday
    - Support for excellent teacher title. Goal is to give NBIS teacher a longer career path. [Per-Olov Hammargren](https://www.uu.se/en/contact-and-organisation/staff?query=N13-1394) is the UU person on this. [Here is the UU info for regular excellent teachers](https://www.uu.se/en/staff/gateway/teaching/educational-development/distinguished-university-teacher): what is the progress? Will it be there? If yes, what are the requirements?
- Date for Training meeting HT 24: Mon Dec 9 or Fri Dec 13
    - Richel will be absent both days, due to holiday
    - Stephan: December 9 does not work
- NGI study design webinar series 
    - recorded webinar 
    - 20 minutes
    - pilot-webinar from the DM-team

## Information from NBIS TrLs
Follow up from last meeting

|  Team | Notes |
| -------- | -------- |
| AIDA |  First AIDA workshop for the semester about reproducible ML and , 40 participants. Training for the hospitalstaff next week.  |
| BIIF |
| Cell & molecular biology|   Preparations for upcoming courses     |
| Data Management     | Introduction to Data Management Practices, 19-21 Nov, advertised now, 7 signed up.      |
| EvoBio | Internal training. "Training-fatigue?",  Preparation for autumn courses. 
| Health and Clinical  | 1 staff leaver.  Internal courses well received in the team: Github copilot, QC for sample swaps and sample identity.  Epigenomics course happening in a week online: 75 participants, 40 from Sweden, offered 25 to Sweden-based, 2 new NBIS teachers.    | 
| Microbiology, Immunology and Structural Biology | 1 new team member started in September (Umeå, Arcadio Rubio Garcia). Preparation for autumn courses.
| Systems development     |  The course "Introduction to Python - with application to bioinformatics" will be carried out Nov 11-15, 2024. Hybrid mode (distributed at Uppsala, Umeå and Lund). |
| UPPMAX/SCoRe|Courses 'Awk' (2 days, n≈15) and 'Intro to UPPMAX' (4 days, n≈20). Future: '[Introduction to Singularity](https://pmitev.github.io/UPPMAX-Singularity-workshop/installation/)' (1 day, ? signups), '[Programming Formalisms](https://uppmax.github.io/programming_formalisms/)' (5 day, ? signups), Courses with HPC2 'Intro to Julia, Matlab, Python, R on HPC (4 day, ≈80 signups)' |

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## Break (10 mins)

## Long-term Feedback 
Run through of the 2023 [feedback](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RL7QiutJdRp6LWC8-RHThryrgQRLiWqO9apdUjOEBbQ/edit?usp=drive_link).
There was a 27% response rate, i.e. 40 out of 149 students contacted.
No LTF sent for 4 courses due to complication in getting consent from anonymised STF.  Issue is resolved with a new question seeking their consent to be contacted after the course in the application form. 
![image](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/H16tExB3C.png)
![image](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/ByO3NxBh0.png)


*Would you recommend the training to other?*
28 = Yes, I already have.
12 = Yes, I would.


*Attending the training event led to/facilitated:*
Useful collaboration(s) with other participants/trainers from the training event
Publication of my work
Submission of a grant application
Qualification added to CV
Change in career

- [Richel] It seems there are no strong critical voices here, as all would recommend the training to others. Does this match the direct evaluations after individual courses (if any)?
    - Yes, around 90-95% would recommend the course on the short-term feedback, so, yes, this matches
    - On the other hand, there are no 2-4 learners responding 'no' here. Sure, the sample is small
- [Richel] 30% (i.e. 12 out of 40 respondents) responded to 'Do you feel that you are able to explain to others what you learnt in the training?' with a 'Maybe'. Isn't that remarkably much?
    - The evaluation questions will be re-evaluated by ELIXIR
- Were there open questions?
    - Yes

## Course description template

For the new course website each course need a description. What should be included?
What is the text limit? https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVNkHUxYU=/

- [Richel] For the description: recommend to answer the question 'Why would I follow this course?', recommend against discussing all micro-topics discussed. On the other hands, let course coordinater to decide freely
- It is good to have a template and modify freely. 
  - Does description need a template too? No
- Consider making clear if the course gives credits, as learners will ask by email otherwise
- Initially, I was critical on templates, but I found out that templates are useful
- Make sure not to conclude things that are different for each course instance, e.g. course fee

## GlittR

Is this resource relevant for NBIS, if so, in what way? https://glittr.org/?per_page=25&sort_by=stargazers&sort_direction=desc

- The Swiss ELIXIR is behind the website
- [Richel] It is Nice to be on that list. It is just one of many many lists. I feel it is not worth to enforce people to be on that list
    - If Swiss ELIXIR scrapes automatically, then, great, no need to do more!
- It is nice to be on that list, that may be worth the effort
    - Should it be an NBIS effort or a course leader effort?
        - If NBIS effort, then all courses should be there
- It is nice to be on as many lists as possible by being scraped. We do need a license then

## AOB

- [Richel] I am doing a simple data collection [here](https://github.com/richelbilderbeek/teaching/tree/master/experiments/counts) for courses that are online and full-day. It now tentatively conclused that (1) most learners are present at 10:00 and 14:00 (i.e. 1 hour after start and lunch) and (2) learners are less likely to drop out after lunch when the amount of cameras before has been high. I consider to write a simple paper when having enough data. Maybe you'd enjoy to supply data too (`time,n_cam_on,n_cam_off`) and/or join the writing? If yes, let me know after this meeting
- Perhaps we should provide a data visualisation course with emphasis on Bioinformatics results...?
    - We do have a data visualisation course, that uses on R
    - It is [here](https://github.com/NBISweden/workshop-data-visualization-r)
    - Yay!


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## Wrap-up & Communications

* ### What to BRING BACK to your team?
    * Book room and dates for your spring courses
    * Advertise courses for fall
    * Use the latest template for registration and Short term feedback; advertisement template for SciLifeLab events & newsletter with Industry course fees
    * Volunteers for NGI study design webinar

* ### What to CATCH from your team? 
  * 


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## Next meeting: 
October 21
    - Now: 13:00-15:00
    - Or do 13:15-15:00, Louella
    - Or do 13:15-15:00 without break
    - Louella decides :-)