Learning Together
Your learning You will learn by watching videos, reading articles, doing exercises, checking your understanding in the quizzes and the final test, and through discussion and peer-review with other learners. …
Course: Train the Trainer: Design Genomics and Bioinformatics Training
An Overview of the Week 3 Project
We hope that you have already by now thought about what will be your own course or a module that you would like to design while attending this course. If …
What Next and Acknowledgments
What next? Free Digital Certificate of Achievement This is a Sponsored course, which means that learners can obtain a free Certificate once they become eligible. To be eligible, you must …
Introduction to learning design case studies
This week, we will be looking at a series of case studies which should help to guide you in designing your own course When designing genomics training, it is important …
Our Suggested Rubric
For the purpose of this exercise, it is good to adopt a uniform criteria for assessing each others Here is a rubric that we would like you to use in …
Why Use a Rubric for Peer Review?
When reviewing a peer’s work, it is often useful to use a defined rubric as a guide. Use of a rubric can help reviewers give more structured feedback, focused on …
How Peer Review Works on FL Platform
About Peer Review Activity Peer review activity is an opportunity for you to share your design for a short course or training activity with your peers within the learning community …
Why Peer Review is Important
In this article, we will talk a bit more about peer review, as a way to give/receive feedback to/from other learners in the group, peers, colleagues, or anybody who is …
Interview with Dr Verena Ras Part 2
In the second part of this interview, Verena is talking about different obstacles her team has to overcome in order to develop and run the bioinformatics courses. What are specific …
Giving and Receiving Feedback
In this article, you will learn useful tips on giving and receiving feedback You will be in a position to review others’ work providing them with feedback, and receive feedback …
Interview with Dr Verena Ras Part 1
In this last of our case studies, you will hear about bioinformatics courses organised by H3ABioNet, a pan-African bioinformatics network. You will have a chance to reflect on your own …
Overview: Design a Short Course or Module and Give and Receive Peer Feedback
For the week’s project, we will ask you to finalise your design of a short course in the area where you are interested in training. It is not so important …
Focus on the Course Context
Identifying the target audience is important for determining the learning outcomes. Dr Ben Moore explains his experience of creating tailored content. He also explains why he chose to include in …
Designing Bioinformatics Training: Interview with Dr Sarah Morgan
Interview with Dr Sarah Morgan (EBI Training), discussing general approaches and philosophies of designing training. Sarah Morgan is a Scientific Training Coordinator at European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), where she leads …
Course Design Elements Part II
We continue from the previous steps, where we started considering different course design elements Assessment As with all other steps, assessments should be aligned with content and learning outcomes (which …
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Train the Trainer: Design Genomics and Bioinformatics Training