Skills Impact and Strategy

Australian Research Data Commons

A trainer community event for digital research trainers and people interested in measuring the impact of skills training.

High quality training is critical to maintaining a competent and competitive digital research ready workforce. Maximising the impact of skills training events, course ware, training materials and resources helps ensure greatest return on investment for training providers, trainers and learners across the research sector. Measuring the effectiveness of our training endeavours and initiatives can demonstrate the value of the resource investments made and improve the quality of future skills training.Measuring training outcomes and impacts is a complex activity. While short-term assessment of training is more widely captured and reported, determining long-term behavioural change and impact on researchers is much more challenging. Training providers and trainers need to understand:<ul><li>How learners react to training - what they think and feel about the training provided.</li><li>What learners retain in terms of the skills and knowledge delivered by the training.</li><li>How learners are incorporating new skills and knowledge into their workflows.</li><li>Whether the skills and knowledge acquired in training helped researchers to produce any research outputs in a more efficient and effective way.</li><li>Emerging digital skills and technologies where there are none or limited training resources.</li></ul>This free and online event is for digital research trainers and anyone who is responsible for or interested in training assessment and evaluation methods, and gauging the impact of training. Are you a trainer, course developer, training program manager, researcher who trains, organisation decision maker, infrastructure manager or anyone involved in digital infrastructure training programs? Then this workshop is for you!Sessions include an exploration of:<ul><li>Why it’s important to measure impact</li><li>What are the challenges in evaluating short and long-term impact</li><li>What are we assessing/evaluating, how and when</li><li>What assessment and evaluation strategies work best and when</li><li>How training developers and trainers can improve their impact</li><li>Coming full circle - what’s in it for the learner</li></ul>The event will conclude with a virtual networking session (platform to be determined).

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