Best Practices in HPC Training (online)
Oct 21 • 10:00 – Oct 22 • 16:00 CEST
The Best Practices in 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 ENCCS and other training providers. The two-half-day online workshop will present best practices in teaching technical topics both online and in-person and is based on past experiences from ENCCS and well-known educational initiatives like The Carpentries and CodeRefinery. It 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
ENCCS came together with NCC Lithuania, NCC Finland and the MultiXscale Centre of Excellence to organise this workshop.
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.
Agenda
Monday 21 Oct 2024
| Time | Episode | Teaching/interaction, min |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome and introduction | 15 | |
| 10:15-10:30 | Training providers | 10 + 5 |
| 10:30-10:45 | Available training resources | 10 + 5 |
| 10:45-11:00 | First teaching practice | 15 + 30 |
| 11:00-11:15 | Break | |
| 11:15-11:45 | First teaching practice cntd. | 15 + 30 |
| 11:45-12:45 | Lunch break | |
| 12:45-13:30 | Acquisition of skill | 20 + 25 |
| 13:30-13:40 | Break | |
| 13:40-14:20 | Lesson design | 20 + 20 |
| Afternoon | Practice backwards design – homework | 45 |
Tuesday 22 Oct 2024
| Time | Episode | Teaching/interaction, min |
|---|---|---|
| | Recap and discussion on Practice backwards design | 15 + 0 |
| 10:15-11:05 | Good interactive teaching practices | 20 + 30 |
| 11:05-11:20 | Break | |
| 11:20-11:40 | Teaching mechanics | 10 + 10 |
| 11:40-12:40 | Lunch break | |
| 12:40-13:20 | Collaborative lesson development | 10 + 30 |
| 12:40-12:50 | Break | |
| 12:50-13:50 | Practice: teaching and giving feedback | 10 + 50 |
| 13:50-14:00 | Break | |
| 14:00-16:00 | The HPC Training Ecosystem in Europe |
ENCCS Lessons
The Best Practices in HPC training is just one of our lessons. Have a look at ENCCS lesson materials where you can find multiple lessons on GPU programming, data analysis, HPC optimisation, and more!
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. You can read more about the countries associated with Horizon2020 here https://ec.europa.eu/info/research-and-innovation/statistics/framework-programme-facts-and-figures/horizon-2020-country-profiles_e
This project has received funding from the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 951732. The JU receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and its associated countries .