The Best Practices in HPC training workshop focuses on helping competent practitioners and experts in various fields teach their knowledge to others. It also serves as a kickstart to teaching available open-source training material from ENCCS and other training providers. The two-half-day online workshop will present best practices in teaching technical topics both online and in-person and is based on past experiences from ENCCS and well-known educational initiatives like The Carpentries and CodeRefinery. It will include a brief tour of the following topics:

• Science and philosophy of teaching
• How to teach interactive, hands-on workshops
• How to design interactive, hands-on lessons

ENCCS came together with NCC Lithuania, NCC Finland and the MultiXscale Centre of Excellence to organise this workshop.

Key outcomes

After attending this workshop, you will:

• Have increased confidence in teaching interactive workshops in online and in-person settings.
• Be familiar with important pedagogical concepts and scientific findings about how people learn new skills.
• Appreciate the importance of frequent hands-on practice in building skill.
• Understand how learning can be improved by following certain best practices in interactive teaching.
• Know how to backwards-design training material based on intended learning outcomes.
• Know about important differences between online and in-person training and how inherent challenges in online training can be overcome.
• Be familiar with a technical approach to collaboratively developing open-source lessons based on a template.