The Best Practices in High Performance Computing (HPC) training workshop focuses on helping competent practitioners and experts in various fields teach their knowledge to others. It also serves as a kickstart to teaching available open-source training material from CSC, ENCCS and other HPC training providers. The two-half-day online workshop will present best practices in teaching technical topics for both online and in-person and is based on past experiences from national competence Centers in EuroCC and well-known educational initiatives like The Carpentries and CodeRefinery.

Content

The training will include a brief tour of the following topics:

• Science and philosophy of teaching
• How to teach interactive, hands-on workshops
• How to design interactive, hands-on lessons

Key outcomes

After attending this workshop, you will:

• Have increased confidence in teaching interactive workshops in online and in-person settings.
• Be familiar with important pedagogical concepts and scientific findings about how people learn new skills.
• Appreciate the importance of frequent hands-on practice in building skill.
• Understand how learning can be improved by following certain best practices in interactive teaching.
• Know how to backwards-design training material based on intended learning outcomes.
• Know about important differences between online and in-person training and how inherent challenges in online training can be overcome.
• Be familiar with a technical approach to collaboratively developing open source lessons based on a template.

CSC came together with NCC Lithuania, NCC Sweden and the MultiXscale Centre of Excellence to organise this workshop.

Schedule

Monday 21 Oct 2024

Time	Episode	Teaching/interaction, min
11:00-11:15	Welcome and introduction	15
11:15-11:30	Training providers	10 + 5
11:30-11:45	Available training resources	10 + 5
11:45-12:00	First teaching practice	15 + 30
12:00-12:15	Break
12:15-12:45	First teaching practice cntd.	15 + 30
12:45-13:45	Lunch break
13:45-14:30	Acquisition of skill	20 + 25
14:30-14:40	Break
14:40-15:20	Lesson design	20 + 20
Afternoon	Practice backwards design – homework	45

Tuesday 22 Oct 2024

Time	Episode	Teaching/interaction, min
11:00-11:15	Recap and discussion on Practice backwards design	15 + 0
11:15-12:05	Good interactive teaching practices	20 + 30
12:05-12:20	Break
12:20-12:40	Teaching mechanics	10 + 10
12:40-13:40	Lunch break
13:40-14:20	Collaborative lesson development	10 + 30
14:20-14:30	Break
14:30-15:30	Practice: teaching and giving feedback	10 + 50
15:30-15:40	Break
15:40-17:00	The HPC Training Ecosystem in Europe

More info and news can be found at ENCCS trainig webpage

Restrictions

Due to EuroCC2 regulations, we CAN NOT ACCEPT generic or private email addresses. Please use your official university or company email address for registration.

This training is for users who live and work in the European Union or a country associated with Horizon 2020. Please read about the countries associated with Horizon2020.