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Best Practises for Developing Training Materials
Type
Training materials can be in various formats, include but not limited to:
- Slides: at the basic level all EOSC-hub service will be provided with one set of training materials in the form of presentation slides, e.g., ppt, pdf
- Slides with recording: e.g., ppt with recording of voice and demos
- Videos clips: e.g., camera recording of a live course etc.
- Self-study materials
- Hands-on exercises
Contents
Here we consider the slide presentation type which is the basic request for EOSC-hub services training material.
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Basic information: title, authors, contact of authors, date, versions
Goal: stating the learning objective of the training material
Target audience: type of people for who this training material is relevant for
Context:
Where is the service located in the EOSC-hub architecture
The service can be used to support which phases of a research (data) lifecycle -- this would be easily understood by users
Service providers’ information
Development backgrounds
Introduction: short and clear describe what the service does
Why should users choose to use the service
What are the problems the service tries to resolve
How good the service is comparing to existing technology
What benefits can the service bring to the users
Who have already been using the service -- existing user base
What the service does -- provide information about:
Service functionalities and features
Architectures and components
Related technologies
Definitions and Terminologies should be provided (or included as notes)
How can users use the service
Access interfaces
Different access options
Usage modes -- provide examples and use cases
Reference:
User guides to get started
Help desk information
Quiz or exercise
Slide Template
Please use EOSC-hub presentation template where is possible. Communication toolkit, including project logo, word and Powerpoint templates are available at: https://wiki.eosc-hub.eu/display/EOSC/Communications+Toolkit
Reuse of Existing
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Materials
It is also possible to reuse existing training material. However, the information should be checked and kept up-to-date.
Review
It is highly recommended that to have contents checked before publishing on an online training catalogue.
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a technical expert
a user expert who has experiences of working with end users
Training Materials Developing Tools
(Thanks to Baptiste for the information) some nice tools for developing training courses including:
Teachable https://training.robustperception.io/p/introduction-to-prometheus (quite nice, lots of features, seems to be generally praised by the users, there is also a free offer with unlimited courses but limited to one authors, and the interesting offer (5 authors) is 83 $/month)
Thinkific: https://www.thinkific.com/(a recurrent alternative to teachable)
Podia: https://www.podia.com/features (a newcomer, trying to get some clients from teachable)
Newkajabi: https://newkajabi.com/ (most expensive (and maybe just too expensive for us) but seems nice wrt features)
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