# Training Steering Group February 2024
**Date & Time:** February 19th, 13.00H
**Connection details:** https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/62955236256
**TrSG book:** https://hackmd.io/@elinkronander/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 | 13:00-13:05 |
| 10 mins | (information) NBIS TrC | 13:05-13:15 |
| 20 mins | Presentation from Mahesh: Structure for NBIS Internal Training | 13:15-13:35 |
| 10 mins | (information) NBIS TrC - continuation | 13:35-13:45 |
| 15 mins | (information) NBIS TrLs | 13:45-14:00
| 5 mins | AOB (any other business) | 14:00-14:05 |
| 5 mins | Wrap-up & communications | 14:05-14:10 |

## Links & Resources:

## Rollcall:
🗣 Name/🐸 pronouns/✍🏼 Team affiliation and Site
Louella / She / HaC, Lund
Richèl / he,him / SCoRe, Uppsala
Gisele / she,her / BIIF, Stockholm
Diana / she / UPPMAX, Uppsala
Tomas / he,him / EvoBio, Chalmers/Uppsala
Stephan / - / DM, Chalmers/UU

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## Information from NBIS TrC

#### Summary from the Training & Support Strategy Day
* 2023 statistics
* Comment: In addition to the student's feedback, we should also get the teacher's feedback after each course
* Comment: How useful and truly representative of student's learning is the short term feedback? Long term feedback post 3 months would be more indicative. Quizzes is probably better than a feedback to gauge a student's learning.
* Comment: In barplot of teachers per team, BIIF and Bioimage are shown.
* new courses in 2023 are now part of the NBIS Training catalogue
* Population Genomics in Practice (Per, Andre), Autumn 2024
* Biomarker Discovery (Prasoon, Mun-Gwan), Autumn 2024
* R Foundations (Prasoon, Nima), Autumn 2024
* new courses for Autumn 2024
* ML and Biostatistics 2 (Payam, Olga, Eva)
* Fair training materials by design (Elin, Nina, Jessica)
* (Elixir) Spatial Omics (Åsa, Rasool), possibly in Jan 2025
* Continue to seek participation of DDLS fellows to NBIS courses
* Pricing scheme for Industry, in progress
* Online courses will be costed for industry but free for academics
* Will involve Industry Outreach Coordinator Marcin

#### TrC + CLs catch up ongoing
* Autumn courses prioritised
* Done: PGIP, BMD, OISB, Python
* possible Lund third site for the hybrid setup of Python
* BMD now a 4-day course
* OISB, onsite Lund, 4/5-days
* new CLs
* Omics Integration, Rasool
* PGIP, Andre
* Intro to Python, Jeanette

#### Big Talk funding
* max 40K sek/year for an invited speaker
* guidelines will be circulated in due time
* talk will be open to the public
* advertise in relevant channels

#### Internal training needs
* Need to start staffing
* New topics recently suggested
* use of Cloud computing resources
* use of big databases eg TCGA, UKBB
* use of co-Pilot in Rtudio etc

#### new Training gdrive, in progress

#### Moving from Rackham to Dardel
* Can autumn courses still use Rackham resources?
* From Diana Iusan, TrL UPPMAX:
As long as the students do not expect to have access to data on Rackham after the end of December 2024, it is OK.
When you apply for a project, it’s good to specify you understand the cluster will be decommissioned and the course participants will not be able to access the data afterwards.
* Can NBIS courses now apply for project and resource allocation in Dardel?
* A question from Intro to NGS CL
* From Diana: Yes they should already be able to via SUPR.

**Training meeting date Suggestion:**
Monday 3/6 10:30-12:00 (Tentative)

If this collides with team meetings, conferences etc. alternative options:
Monday 3/6 13:00-14:30
Wednesday 5/6 10:30-12:00
Thursday 30/5 10:30-12:00
Friday 31/5 10:00-11:30

## Suggested Structure for NBIS Internal Training
Presentation from Mahesh
https://github.com/NBISweden/Training-Tech-shorts

## Information from NBIS TrLs
Follow up from last meeting see

| Team | Notes |
| -------- | -------- |
| AIDA | |
| BIIF | Hiring process going on from Uppsala node. Other BIIF courses that could be included within NBIS catalogue? Need to meet with BIIF and Anna Klemm
| Cell & molecular biology| |
| Data Management | Planning issues for spring Intro-DM course |
| EvoBio | Discussions about team training. on-boarding of Cormac|
| Health and Clinical | |
| Microbiology, Immunology and Structural Biology ||
| Systems development | |
| UPPMAX/SCoRe | No news |

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## AOB

- Richel: We do a lot of teaching and we do in-house training for technology. However, we do not do in-house training to become better at teaching. Louella: we do do Train the Trainer. Richel: agreed. Tomas: you mean a short-form thing? Richel: yes, I do. Stephan: Train The Trainer follows a Carpentries approach, there are more. Louella: if you want, you can make some suggestions. Richel: sure, here are some:
- Anything regarding evidence-based teaching (also called Scolarship of Teaching): what are best evidence-based practices in doing e.g. a teaching cycle, preparing a lesson, evaluating/reflecting a lesson as a teacher, do a student evaluation
- The use of starting a session with a Code of Conduct: how useful according to the literature?
- The use of student evaluations in improving a course, according to the literature
- Should student evaluation results be open or closed, according to the literature?
- Professional development as a teacher, guidelines from the literature
- Rethorics - Use of voice and body language in teaching, pacing, empahsizing
- Peer observation by colleagues, guidelines from the literature
- Book reviews, e.g. 'Visible Learning' by Johan Hattie, 'Fundamentals of teaching' by Mike Bell
- What is good teaching, according to the literature?

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## Wrap-up & Communications

* ### What to BRING BACK to your team?
* Book room and dates for your Autumn courses
* NB SBW Uppsala, Nov 4-5
* NB NBIS Autumn retreat dates, TBD soon
* Big Talk funding

* ### What to CATCH from your team?
* Volunteers to teach topics of NBIS Internal Training
* For those who are unable to login to Canvas, please see [doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mVODtl3SWqZl0XuLeJQo7nqDWVAUbF1a83r-zz24MeQ/edit?usp=drive_link) and/or email TrCs.

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## Next meeting:

18th March Monday, 10.00H