Feedback round at Carpentries introduction at CSBD/MPI CSBD, April 8, 2019 *Co teacher: Must not be a instructor. Bus factor for course gets bigger than 1. Other fields of teaching: * BioInfo? * Image analysis? * Machine learning? * Software development? Feedback round positive/take-away - teaching techniques presented were useful - cleared doubts on teaching methods - convinced with carpentries - did not have idea about carpentries, now much clearer - understood what is carpentries, liked the modern teaching skills presented - liked the teaching techniques - might be interesting for upcoming courses - learnt new things - teaching techniques seems to be useful (for quite a lot of people :) ) - helpful to improve teaching skills of the community - details presented about the carpentries were quite nice - got to know about carpentries, important for software in science - methods/teaching techniques valuable - nice opportunity to learn to teach, way to be part of the scientific community involved in teaching/transferring knowledge, good to know such a thing exists - good to know about carpentries: both from teaching and learning side - has been useful for our facility, both materials and teaching methods (sticky notes, etherpad, etc) - good/positive feedback from participants when employed methods learnt from carpentries (e.g. sticky notes for feedback) - will be useful to learn teaching methods for upcoming courses negative feedback: - no information about techniques so far - beamer - confused about teaching methods but already became clearer - not enough details to be motivated to participate - only the feedback round to say whether to take part or not - its not clear why they ask for money - not sure how the open source systems works with so many contributors - career development information were missing (addressed after the feedback round: you can choose an institut where you want to work in the future and participate in giving the courses) - confused about how to stay part of the community how all this is organized - what are the reasons to do it (addressed after the feedback round: the demand from the community we know helps to make the decision) - knowledge requirements to become a teacher are not clear - it's difficult to make a decision on who is allowed to become an instructor additional information: - you can get certification for new materials if you follow certain guidlines, e.g. bus factor, etc. - one of the two working groups of the All "digitally quailified staff" https://www.allianzinitiative.de/fields-of-action-projects/digitally-qualified-staff/?lang=en "Digital learning, teaching and networking" https://www.allianzinitiative.de/fields-of-action-projects/digital-learning-teaching-and-networking/?lang=en strongly favours the carpentries method for teaching in academia. Some form of output of these working groups expected for this summer.