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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>Notes:<br />
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Obstacles – <br />
Paying for training<br />
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How do you find training?<br />
Metro<br />
Online <br />
Regional organizations/ conferences<br />
Higher Education Training consortiums<br />
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Online training – lots of folks participated, but not a lot like it.<br />
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Why not so good?<br />
Lack of interaction – no one to talk to (asynchronous sessions)<br />
Completing tasks – not the same as active learning<br />
When taking an online course – co-workers assume that you are they can interrupt you. (drive by’s in the cubicle environment)<br />
When taking a course with other people – it is a nudge to get it done. <br />
But online training does offer flexibility for scheduling<br />
“Aspirational “ training harder to make time for<br />
Ideas about Code4Lib preconferences:<br />
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Digital humanities – data visualization<br />
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Other conferences for Code4Lib workshops <br />
AMIA<br />
DLF<br />
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Topics – should they be deep technical of something you already know – or learn something new ? Room divided . Tension between learning something to stay relevant, and learning something new.<br />
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MeetUp.com was noted as a resource.<br />
Networking a key part of Face2Face learning.<br />
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Libraries themselves should offer more classes for library staff.<br />
Quick - that people can do in/on their own time.<br />
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*idea *Weekly code Read – picking popular items on github – invite library staff and other interested folks across campus<br />
idea – Lunch and learns<br />
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“problem” – there is no one around in the immediate are that is doing what I am doing – reliant on virtual networks. Challenge of rural-based / small community developers. No just a lone technologist but this challenge is also for those who are working on very specialized programs – or someone who coding is only a portion of their job.<br />
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What constitutes good training?<br />
Hands on experiences – actually doing something.<br />
Walking away from something and knowing what to do next<br />
Having hand outs or documentation that you can take away<br />
Clearly articulate “why I am learning this”; how this skill can be applied, what you will achieve at the end of the course/training<br />
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Practitioner-led training (community based training)<br />
Can we vote on what would be good sessions that can be translated to “road shows” ? <br />
Led to conversation on post-rating sessions on level of “techiness”, good teachers, “skills to know”<br />
What is the baseline knowledge? And can the baseline be achieved through online? <br />
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Hacker Epistemology? A concept to explore.<br />
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You might not retain the knowledge – but you retain the confidence from learning a new skill. <br />
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Mention of an Edx.org course that talks about this.<br />
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How do you less anxiety during a session when you feel absolutely lost? <br />
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F2F and Online training can create a community of learners – how do we create a community around a skill set/ tools – in order to support the learning effort – and community understanding.<br />
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Pressure to learn as a result of not being able to work with the department or personnel who have the skills already.<br />
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How to you bring new learning back home? How do you empower folks at your institution to learn new things, beyond naming and shaming? How do we foster a learning environment at home? Repurpose discarded hardware to be used to build learning environments/sandbox environments. Also mentioned – EC2/Amazon to created a sandbox environment. RailsBridge walks you through setting up an [XX}environment as well. Another resource is AppFog https://www.appfog.com/<br />
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Other training besides technical:<br />
Management training<br />
Intro to Hacker culture for managers that did not come up through developer community<br />
Problem Resolution <br />
Meeting Facilitation Training – DeEtta Jones was mentioned as a resource<br />
Communication training – on a number of issues.<br />
Marketing Training<br />
“how to talk to” series: librarians, managers, sys admins<br />
Managing Bureaucracy<br />
Project Management Training – has to be open to everyone – across the board<br />
Technical Writing/Documentation<br />
More Train the Trainer Workshops</div>Rlfrick