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# Educators’ guidebook at the Turing

`infrastructure` `community buiding` `agile working` `content development`

**Author name**: Mishka Nemes

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**Key info & logistics**
- **Date**: tentative 15-19 April 2024 OR 13-17 May
- **Venue / delivery mode**: online fully
- **Audience**: educators who took the programme & speakers from the programme
- **Contact name**: Mishka 
- **Contact email**: skills@turing.ac.uk
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**Useful links**
- [draft email for participants](https://thealanturininstitute.sharepoint.com/:w:/s/SkillsTeam/ER4dxLiQINpFm97pOfBu3hQBfXhV7OziW0LysWPoBdO-UQ?e=7czdhU)
- [participant list](https://thealanturininstitute.sharepoint.com/:x:/s/SkillsTeam/EaXZjNHzsYxJoBF58J3HwyEBlZCn9AyJhTuHpdGlTn13vA?e=vvm386)
- [bookdash checklist - to be adapted](https://hackmd.io/dnfU5tD_ToONUOPp5HirCg?view)
- [participant impact statements](https://thealanturininstitute.sharepoint.com/:x:/s/SkillsTeam/Ec5DEf_n_S1Eugc2ec5ZUjkBED5LwVowLFE8WIFA5YgwoA?e=auJb4B) from run#2 of the programme. See columns AM and AN
- [current draft of chapters (last tab)](https://thealanturininstitute.sharepoint.com/:x:/s/SkillsTeam/Ebc2eZ1opMZFoh8vh43P4DoBlkrmf20gRgefpVFONgIpOA?e=S8CUgI)
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## Why?

### Motivation

We have run the Data Science and AI Educators Programme (DSAIEP) twice already, and the feedback received was really positive with more than half of the selected participants (approx 90 acorss the two runs) feeling actively engaged with the programme and the Turing more broadly. 

We are now keen to consolidate the format, contents and running principlies so that the programme is more self-sustainable, robust and consistent across runs, and also to offer those educators 'loosely' connected with us an opportunity to access learning materials and contribute back, without committing to a full-on programme (min 30 contact hours).

Equally, we want to strengthen the alignment between the DSAIEP and the wider Skills strategy (see objectives 6 & 9 from [here](https://www.turing.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-03/turing_2.0_-_institute_strategy_-_final.pdf)) that:
1. **Community building & coordination of efforts**: the educators community feels ongoingly engaged and not only during the programme run. Integrating the growing DSAIEP community with the education interest group and other relevant Turing communities would be beneficial.
2. **Upskilling key stakeholder groups / audiences**: the educators community is key to our Skills work as they are actively engaged community who feed in directly or indirectly to the learner community. Many Turing Fellows, Turing researchers and many others from the Turing community are educators themselves and can help facilitate this work.
3. **Integrating & connecting different projects**: with Turing 2.0, we want to break down silos between projects and teams. The DSAIEP project can feed in to the Online Learning Platform for sharing materials and best practice, or the Turing Way platform in light of many TTW contributors being educators themselves. Likewise, engaging CDTs facilitators from the Connections initiative is a natural progression to enable scaling up of the community. (list can easily continue..) 

### Aims and objectives


- A set of foundational concepts, best practice, case studies etc that they can refer back to anytime. 
- Accessible, clear and consistent formating for the different topics / themes.
- An opportunity to contribute back, suggest changes, or engage with the wider community for further discussions;
- A platform that becomes more self-sustainable with time and with the input of a community manager (or equivalent) and that facilitates the live programme runs. Equally, this platform will enable them to continue learning & reading past a live delivery.

### Guiding principles
1. Community driven effort with central Turing support in coordination, implementation and other stages.
2. Completely open source outputs clearly documented, archived and modular / editable.
3. [list can continue..]
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## Who?

### Organisers
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Consider RACI matrix of responsibilities
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- **Mishka** - Project lead
- **Denise** - Project support
- Malvika / Matt / Ayesha - Advisors
- Community manager - Sprint support
- Other?


### Contributorws
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Consider stratifying the audience where possible. Emphasise on their needs, motivations & current frustrations.
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Participants from run 1 & 2 of the educators' programme, as well as previous speakers. If needs be, we can extend the invite to interest group members too.
- 3/4 participants based in the UK
- 1/4 participants are international 

Participants receive invitation but are asked to fill in a form to develop their plan further ahead of the event (plus logistics)

- if we host the materials in the TTW, then TTW contributors could also receive an invite (for development of the materials or review only)

Other stakeholders? Delivery teams / partners?
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## How? 
- Intense sprint over 2-5 days
- **Monday**: intro & onboarding [details TBC] + mingling / networking [get to know your co-working group]
- **Tuesday - Thursday**: 2.5h co-working sessions (3 days x 4 sessions / day = 12 sessions) - online / remote co-working in pairs
    - 8:00 - 10:30 am
    - 11:00 - 1:30 pm
    - 2:00 - 4:30 pm
    - 5:00 - 7:30 pm
- **Friday**: wrap-up & share-out [details TBC]
- hybrid / parallel in person and virtual session could be considered for intro (Monday) or Friday (wrap-up)
- 3 contributors per theme / topic (up to 12 topics)
- onboarding session at the beginning & wrap-up session with share-out / presentations at the end
- tentative dates: 15-19 April 2024



### Means of delivery
```
Consider presenting options and emphasise clearly on your choice of delivering the project
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Guidance:
- [ ] what makes a good subchapter (including type of assets to include)
- [ ] briefing doc for participants on the sprint
- [ ] acceptance criteria checklist (ie quality assurance)
- [ ] long-term sustainability plan / how to build on it and keep up to date

Templates:
- [ ] chapter format  


### Budget & constraints / considerations
- we have a budget that we could use for software, small expenses (eg illustrations), lunch vouchers, other?
- given international spread of participants, we will host the entire sprint online (first round). Consider in-person wrap-up event / multiple local events for the wrap-up / mid-way networking opportunity
- consider FAQ call between invites going out & deadline for form submission
- consider getting the original speakers to review & approve the chapters before publishing (alongside 2 other core team members)
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## What

Mozilla OL inspiration for facilitator guide [link](https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/initiatives/mozilla-open-leaders/fork-open-leaders/)

Build a pathway for educators [here](https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/early-career-researchers) with existing TTW content + new content developed in June, mainly focused on curriculum & pedagogy

Current list of topics and chapters and learning outcomes in bullet points.

### Pedagogy & Curriculum

1. **Identifying learner needs** (existing materials here)
    - To understand your audience through audience definition questions
    - To identify learner needs/gaps and be able to integrate them into proposals for department heads
    - To practise persona mapping & learning needs analysis
    - To find and adapt pre-existing resources to meet learner needs/gaps
2. **Lesson development**
3. **Curriculum development** 
    - Understanding what to teach 
    - The first step in designing a curriculum according to backward design principles is to identify the practical skills that you aim to teach.
    - Collaborative development and delivery of a new course
    - Designing training for live delivery vs self-paced learning vs blended learning
7. **Building learner pathways** *new*
4. **Assessment, feedback & implementaion** (existing materials here, needs quite a bit of work)
5. **Embedding ethics across DS & AI subjects** (solid materials + process + case-study here)
    - To discuss what is meant by ethics - what is our common understanding?
    - To understand what ethics means in the context of data science and AI and in the context of teaching
    - To be able to convince others of the value of ethics in your field
    - To understand how to embed ethics in your curriculum
    - To know considerations for ethics at all stages of teaching (planning, delivery and assessment) and be able to begin to apply this
    - To examine detailed case study/studies on embedding ethics into project lifecycles
    - To know how to bridge the gap between ethics subject knowledge and actual, real-world implementation
8. **Making learning memorable** (existing materials here)
    - Delivery modes
    - Gamification
    - Learner incentives 
9. **Emdedding data science across disciplines** (existing materials here)
    - To understand how data skills are applied to non-cognate disciplines
    - To be able to embed data skills into non-cognate disciplines with confidence
    - To share best practice inc. materials

### Ethics & EDI

1. **Widening Participation** (existing materials here)
    - On a training level: classroom, workshop etc
    - 
2. **Supporting neurodivergent learners** *new*  
3. **Ensuring ongoing engagement with learners & wellbeing** (existing materials here)
    - Mentimeters
    - Consider design of teaching to move away from classroom live teaching to live group discussions 
    - To understand different approaches to engaging students
    - To share best practices of how teaching has adapted
    - To identify what works well and what needs improvement
    - To be able to apply methods to larger cohorts of students


### Tools & Trends
1. **Making teaching relevant to real-world problems** (industry cross-over)
    - To understand why (most often) training shouldn't be siloed as only theoretical and academical, and why it needs to be useful when applied to real world industry needs
    - To examine case studies of academia using industry real-world applications in practice; Use case development (?)
    - To discuss how to bridge the gap between academia and industry; Applied / experiental learning eg Hackathons
2. **Challenges of teaching data science and AI** (existing materials here)
    - Intro [could be intro to the entire guidebook]
    - To understand wider and systemic challenges facing DS and AI educators (panel discussion)
    - To know strategies to overcome the wider challenges (panel discussion)
    - To be aware of day-to-day challenges that educators face and develop solutions for these (practical/breakout room)
3. **Teaching using GenAI tools** *new*

### Open teaching & Community 
1. **Collaborative design and delivery of teaching**
    - To understand the collaborative aspect of designing a course/programme
    - To know how to develop materials from different perspectives e.g. lesson vs. series of lessons vs. whole curriculum
    - To deep dive into building open source training resources for future use
2. **Open teaching & contributing** *new*
3. **Reuse, adapt & contribute to open teaching repositories** eg Binder [link with TTW]

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We don't expect all of the themes above to be developed in the first sprint we run and we will select those that 1) present high interest from the community & 2) support building the foundations of an educators guidebook. There will be future runs of the sprints to further develop the guidebook.
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### End goals

TBA 

### Deliverables & outputs
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Consider adding timelines, milestones and assign responsibilities
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1. Text to describe the topic 
2. Slides / interactive educational assets (eg diagrams, infographics)
3. References & further reading
4. Use cases & Illustrations - to be discussed
*NB videos might be a bit ambitious (ask in the FAQ call how much appetite there is)*
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## Actions
- [x] MN - Reach out to TTW team and discuss possibility to integrate a new chapter in TTW
- [x] DB - Review current ideas and format and provide feedback and input to consolidate
- [ ] MN & DB - Draft RACI matrix
- [ ] MN & DB - Agree nomenclature and terms 
- [ ] MN - Scope out infrastructure requirements & options
- [ ] MN - Look into options & approvals for repurpusing the original speaker materials (plus licensing options)
___

### Notes on TTW & DSAIEP
- invite participants on onboarding call in April / May
- applications via the normal process for TTW


Actions
- [ ] confirm TTW dates
- [ ] MN to draft Miro board with topics, chapters etc
- [ ] MN to send info to participants once we have dates confirmed etc

### Misc Notes
:::spoiler
### 28th Sept 2023 - Co-working agenda

- discussion around nomenclature
- infrastructure requirements
- **mode of delivery** SWOT on online / in person / hybrid delivery
    - 3/4 participants based in the UK
    - 1/4 participants are international - cap for travel costs?
    - hybrid could work if they co-work in small groups eg up to 3-4 people per chapter
- discussion around CC themes -> guidebook chapters & priorities
    - long term sustainability
    - [current draft of chapters (last tab)](https://thealanturininstitute.sharepoint.com/:x:/s/SkillsTeam/Ebc2eZ1opMZFoh8vh43P4DoBlkrmf20gRgefpVFONgIpOA?e=S8CUgI)
- **application based vs invitation based**
    - FAQ call with more guidance etc plus sales pitch
    - extend the invite to run 1
    - leaning towards invite based, but ask them to fill in  a form & develop their plan ahead of the event
- **format**: what materials should we develop besides guidance in a text form? consider videos, use cases, visuals (infographics, diagrams, illustrations etc)
    - consider commissioning a junior illustrator (can ask AM for recommendations from an artist she knows, if needed. Am would need a rough budget and a rough brief)
    - videos might be a bit ambitious (ask in the FAQ call how much appetite there is)
    - use cases TBD
    - look into options & approvals for repurpusing the original speaker materials 
    - consider getting the original speakers to review & approve the chapters before publishing (alongside 2 other core team members)
- [side topic] impact stories regarding participants / speaker spotlights?
    - Participant [impact statements](https://thealanturininstitute.sharepoint.com/:x:/s/SkillsTeam/Ec5DEf_n_S1Eugc2ec5ZUjkBED5LwVowLFE8WIFA5YgwoA?e=auJb4B) from run#2 of the programme. See columns AM and AN.
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