1. NA3 Training and induction
Malcolm Atkinson & David Fergusson NA3 Leader & Activity Manager, NeSC
EGEE Final EU review
23-24 May 2006
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2. Distribution of NA3 effort
~ 1 FTE per partner in NA3 (22 active partners)
~ 0.3 FTE per partner within EGEE (given 70 partners in all).
training required and delivered everywhere
Management, Support
eLearning, Web Services
WSRF, Biomed
Earth Sciences
Data
Middleware
Operations
NORTHERN 4 1 6
RUSSIA CE
Portals
Earth Sciences 5
Industry, SME
Operations
User Support (GGUS) 1
SEE
Comment on UK & I, Germany & Switzerland and Italy as covered by black dots 3
t-Infrastructure
Portals
Application integration
Multimedia (SMIL) 1
Federation
Induction
Web Services 1
Single partner
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3. Countries which hosted EGEE courses
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4. Training Delivery 2 (2) 4 (5) 2 (4) 11 (30) 12 (25) 11 (25) 12 (50)
Course Length (days)
11 (30)
12 (25)
11 (25)
12 (50)
Average Attendance
42 (12)
40 (4)
47 (16)
121 (20)
Number
Technical
Activity
Retreats
Advanced
Courses
Application
Developer
Training
Induction
Figures in brackets are the expected values at the start of the project
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5. 2927 attendees at courses (1860) 250 training events (52)
Headline figures
2927 attendees at courses (1860)
250 training events (52)
9322 participant days (4820)
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6. Course types per quarter
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7. Training: Quantity & Quality
Participants grade course from 1 to 6. Each point = average of overall score for a course
initial focus in training was on induction and, while this
effort is continuing, more advanced course have been added over time
Dave, I’d like to have the excel spreadsheet
Trainers review grades and revise course material and training plans
n=68 of 174 possible courses
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8. Rates of feedback return
Must extend data to the end of project
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9. T-Infrastructure uses
GILDA/GENIUS has been central in installing new middleware versions, making these available and sharing experience
GILDA/GENIUS extensively used in induction and advanced training courses and summer schools
UEDIN cluster also used for early gLite installation in conjunction with GILDA to gather experience and developing new application developer courses.
Cluster and virtual machines at FZK used to support application developer and installation courses for gLite
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10. External projects and VOs
Diligent
Magic
EMBRACE
BioinfoGrid
TERENA/NRENS
Industry attendees at:
ISSGC ’05
tutorial
SME course FZK
PRISM Forum UK (Pharma)
ISSEG, ETICS, ICEAGE
EUMEDGRID, EELA, SEEGRID
Biomed courses
Physics courses
Earth Sciences
Social Sciences
Geographical outreach:
BalticGrid (joined EGEE)
Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, Korea, China
Australia, New Zealand
Venezuela (joined EELA)
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11. EGEE Created ICEAGE Mission
Stimulate and support advances in grid education throughout Europe
Goals
Achieve rapid growth in effective advanced grid education
Enabling society to make best use of e-Infrastructure
Make best use of worldwide capacity for advanced grid education
Deliver a stimulating programme of educational events
Including international summer schools
Broaden engagement in an advanced grid education
both geographically and across disciplines
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12. Services & Applications
Vive la Difference – Sharing our Future
Training – EGEE
Targeted
Immediate goals
Specific skills
Building a workforce
Education – ICEAGE
Pervasive
Long term and sustained
Generic conceptual models
Developing a culture
Both are needed
Organisation
Skilled Workers
Training
Services & Applications
Invests
Prepares
Develop
Strengthens
Society
Graduates
Education
Innovation
Invests
Prepares
Create
Enriches
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13. Summer Schools Supported approx 5 Summer Schools per year
ISSGC 04, 05
GridKa 04, 05
CERN School of Computing 04, 05
Budapest Regional Summer School 04, 05
PPARC Summer School 04, 05
Prepared ISSGC 06 then handed baton to ICEAGE
Highest profile international training and education events in grid computing.
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14. Outreach & Influence Ran training events that helped launch
Baltic Grid
E-Infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America (EELA)
EU China Grid Initiative
EU Med Grid
Launching a Community Group in Grid Education, Outreach & Training at GGF16 & GGF17
Large international engagement & charter under development
EU (EGEE created) leadership
Initiated work on Training & Education in e-IRG
Presentations at London & Linz
Chapter in e-IRG white paper
EGEE created leadership
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15. Issues Scale Quality Rate of change
Support geographically diverse groups
Many different knowledge domains
Breadth of knowledge required
Quality
Maintain and encourage a ‘quality culture’
Rate of change
New middleware features
New VOs
Changing needs of domains
New projects
Changes in national grid provision
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16. EU Reviewers’ Recommendations & EGEE Responses
5 Reinforce and Incentivise “train the trainers” events
More courses planned in EGEE-II
Further follow-up surveys planned
Formal accreditation for trainers started ready for EGEE-II
6 Improve evaluation of training requirements and delivery
Improved follow-up questionnaires to identify specific needs
Mandatory quality checks in EGEE-II
7 Expand training activities for applications developers and administrators
More activities in EGEE-II Training Plan
8&9 Promote better links with Industry users
Work closely with the Industry Forum
Expand links with DATAMAT
Market survey and talking with training companies
10 Ensure high quality of training experience, t-Infrastructure and trainers is maintained
Follow on survey and external review carried out
User satisfaction survey (in NA4 user survey)
Metrics & editorial board in EGEE-II
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17. Achievements Delivered beyond targets
Delivered across Europe, even in areas with no representatives
Delivered outreach beyond existing EGEE area
Maintained quality process across partners
Collated a body of training materials to act as catalyst to training
EGEE provided the acorn – now an oak will grow
Established a self-paced eLearning portal
Based on Digital Library models & shared with DILIGENT
and international education metadata collaboration standards
Engaged a broad range of disciplines and related projects
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18. Training in EGEE-II Enlarged community of Training Partners
E.g. with partners in France & Iberia
Developing a Federated Model
For support & management
Strengthening QA procedures
Partner performance metrics
Editorial review of recommended materials (ETF)
Accreditation of EGEE trainers
Leadership of UIG
More focus at UEDIN on management
Increase responsibility of others to deliver courses
Engage larger training community
Industry, training trainers & recommended material
MoUs with new projects and communities
Major challenge: Scale up and still remain responsive
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19. Summary The NA3 Activity in EGEE
Has delivered well: high number of tailored courses
This has depended on
Close interaction with all other activities
Teamwork & Enthusiasm
Assistance from many experts
We have developed a major repository of material
With self-paced learning support
This needs further content & quality processes
QA and management is a challenge with a thinly spread community
But we have met this challenge
And improved the model in EGEE-II
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