From trainees to trainers to instructors: Sustainably building a national capacity in bioinformatics training
From trainees to trainers to instructors: Sustainably building a national capacity in bioinformatics training
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006923
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发表时间：
2019-06-01
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4.3
通讯作者：
Morgan, Sarah L.
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作者：
McGrath, Annette;Champ, Katherine;Morgan, Sarah L.
由于对生命科学家生物信息学技能培训的需求，欧洲分子生物学实验室-欧洲生物信息学研究所 (EMBL-EBI) 与 2 个澳大利亚组织（澳大利亚生物平台和联邦科学与工业研究组织 (CSIRO)）于 2012 年开展了培训师培训合作。合作的目标是建立一批训练有素的讲师，他们可以在全国范围内开发和提供短期生物信息学课程。培训师培训课程向讲师介绍男性治疗学和循证学习原则的各个方面，帮助他们更好地设计、开发和提供高质量的培训。从那时起，网络中的培训师数量和课程组合都在增长。澳大利亚队列和 EMBL-EBI 已开发并共享最佳实践，以应对生物信息学培训中的常见挑战。澳大利亚培训师团队再次与 EMBL-EBI 合作举办了培训师培训讲师课程，并随后成功向澳大利亚境内感兴趣的生物信息学培训师提供了培训师培训课程。我们的结论是，培训师培训方法可以帮助建设国家能力并维持足够数量的经过培训的教员。
Demand for training life scientists in bioinformatics skills led to the development of a train-the-trainer collaboration between the European Molecular Biology Laboratory-European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and 2 Australian organisations, Bioplatforms Australia and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in 2012. The goal of the collaboration was to establish a group of trained instructors who could develop and deliver short bioinformatics courses nationally. A train-the-trainer course introduces instructors to aspects of andragogy and evidence-based learning principles to help them better design, develop, and deliver high-quality training. Since then, both the number of trainers in the network and the course portfolio have grown. Best practises have been developed and shared between the Australian cohort and EMBL-EBI to address common challenges in bioinformatics training. The Australian trainer cohort undertook a train-the-trainer instructor course, again with EMBL-EBI, and subsequently successfully delivered train-the-trainer courses to interested bioinformatics trainers within Australia. We conclude that a train-the-trainer approach can help build national capacity and maintain a critical mass of trained instructors.