# Help Shape the upcoming EVITA

==EVITA = EuroHPC Virtual Training Academy==

## "What will be delivered" is rather clear

- Project duration: 4 years
- Partners: BSC, POLIMI, TUW, LiU, UniLu, USTUTT, IT4I@VSB, GWDG
- The big picture:


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## "How" is where your input matters

==Especially: WP3, WP4, WP5==

- Skill tree, learning pathways, micro-credentials
- Module template formats
- Funding for (Course) material dev & QA (Peer review)
- Training platform
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### Skill tree, learning pathways, micro-credentials

- Skill Tree
- Categories
- Nodes / Leaf skills
- Each leaf
- See:
- Explanation: https://www.hpc-certification.org/cs/
- Wiki: https://www.hpc-certification.org/wiki/skill-tree/b
- Source code: https://github.com/HPC-certification-forum/skill-tree
- Example: [SD2 = Programming Best Practices](https://www.hpc-certification.org/wiki/skill-tree/sd/2/b)
- [SD2.2 = Debugging](https://www.hpc-certification.org/wiki/skill-tree/sd/2/2/b)

#### What you could do

- Add **learning outcomes** if missing from your courses
- Match learning outcomes to different skills
- File issues / submit PR for missing skills

### Module template formats

#### What should be the criteria?

- Localization
- Accessibilty
- Content types: video, images, slides, (executable) code blocks
- Responsive UI for mobile
- ...
- ...
- Typical technical solutions out in the wild:
- Markdown
- Jupyter
- Moodle/Canvas/other MOOC
- Slides

#### What should be the structure?
- Learning objectives
- Intro / Lectures (slides + video + captions, slides + audio / transcript, detailed text)
- Hands-on exercises
- Feedback

#### Issues

- Support many?
- Auto/manually convert all to one universal format?

### Funding for (Course) material dev & QA (Peer review)
- Cascade funding for **module development**:
- Per module: ??
- Total sum: 1.728 mEUR
- Funding to work as an **external reviewer**:
- Up to 5 proposals
- Half a day per review
- Compensation: 450 EUR / working day
- Potential collaboration with JOSE:
- Extra incentive: faster review towards JOSE papers
- Things to sort out to make this happen:
- In return, JOSE would need a couple of editors to manage EVITA as a separate track
- JOSE also requested funds to hire a dev for infrastructure maintenance

### Training platform

#### Issues

What would be the dream scenario?

- Supervised courses: limited time
- Manual checks for completing exercises
- Unsupervised courses:
- nbgrader
- Off-platform vs hosted compute resources
- EuroHPC-FP?
- EOCS?
- Learner runs on their laptop
- Technical solutions for hosted compute for courses:
- MOOC with JupyterLab / Hub / Lite