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Welcome to The Carpentries Collaborative Lesson Development Training! { alt='The Carpentries Collaborative Lesson Development Training' style='padding: 2%'}

This is a training curriculum teaching good practices in lesson design and development, and open source collaboration skills, using [The Carpentries Workbench][workbench]. The curriculum was designed to be taught over three full days or six half-days. The target audience is Carpentries Instructors with an idea for a new lesson they would like to create, especially if that lesson is intended for short-format training (e.g. part or all of a two-day workshop).

We believe that lesson development is easier and more successful when it is a joint effort among collaborators, so the activities and examples used in this training are best suited to groups of trainees who want to collaborate on a lesson project. Efforts have been made to also cater to lesson developers working alone.

Learning Objectives

After attending this training, participants will be able to:

  • collaboratively develop and publish lessons using The Carpentries lesson infrastructure (aka [The Carpentries Workbench][workbench]): lesson template, GitHub, GitHub Pages, etc.
  • identify and characterise the target audience for a lesson.
  • define SMART learning objectives.
  • explain the pedagogical value of authentic tasks.
  • create exercises for formative assessment.
  • explain how considerations of cognitive load can influence the pacing, length, and organisation of a lesson.
  • configure and maintain accessible and usable lesson repositories using best practices, readily available for collaboration.
  • identify and correct accessibility issues in a Carpentries lesson.
  • update and improve lesson material guided by feedback and reflection from teaching.
  • review and provide constructive feedback on lessons.

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Prerequisites

Before joining Collaborative Lesson Development Training, participants should be able to:

  • write formatted text - bold and italic, headings, links, bullet point and numbered lists - with Markdown.
  • log into GitHub.com and create and edit files using the GitHub web interface.

See A Primer on Markdown and GitHub for resources to help learn these skills.

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