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Chapter 3 - Deciding what to teach - Target Audience Questions #3

Open Denubis opened 4 years ago

Denubis commented 4 years ago

https://cdh.carpentries.org/deciding-what-to-teach.html

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3.1.2 Question list

  1. What is the expected educational level of your audience?
  2. What type of exposure do your audience members have to the technologies you plan to teach?
  3. What types of tools do they already use?
  4. What are the pain points they are currently experiencing?
  5. What types of data does your target audience work with?
Denubis commented 4 years ago

I propose the following:

  1. Education: Non-education PhDs (including ABDs), ECRs and similar alt-ac folk. Carpentries instructors.
  2. Exposure: Very little. We plan to teach reverse instructional design and while we mention it on the afternoon of day 2, it is not a commonly reinforced theme learned through spaced repetition like live-coding or the management or teaching of a workshop. We can assume faintly remembered instructor training as a baseline (though we should focus this more on the parts we know each trainer covers) and they likely have done the persona exercise without too much thought as to why.
  3. Tools: "Intuition" and "following the plan of a lesson" -- if this is to be able to more ably plan the course of a workshop or to design a new lesson for a workshop, my expectation is that most people follow the workshops largely as written.
  4. Pain points: Running out of time during a workshop. Teaching a workshop to the wrong audience.
  5. Carpentries workshops. (Can we go meta-meta-meta?)