HOW TO: Material to Support People Working in the Meteorological Education Worldwide
This material is collected from the chats in the WhatsApp group Design Discussions. The people in this group are all working in the meteorological educational domain. For us this is the place to go and ask questions, find ideas, help and support each other and sharing our knowledge and experiences to educate ourselves. You are welcome to join.
We hope that this information will support you as well! We will update this page as we go.
Moving over to online learning? Have a look at these resources first:
What
|
What is it about?
|
Where to find?
|
Other notes
|
Book: Michael Allen's Guide to e-Learning (practical and comprehensive guide for creating e-learning)
|
Michael Allen's Guide to e-Learning: Building Interactive, Fun, and Effective Learning Programs for Any Company, Second Edition presents best practices for building interactive, fun, and effective online learning programs. This engaging text offers insight regarding what makes great e-learning, particularly from the perspectives of motivation and interactivity, and features history lessons that assist you in avoiding common pitfalls and guide you in the direction of e-learning success. This updated edition also considers changes in technology and tools that facilitate the implementation of the strategies, guidelines, and techniques it presents.
|
We want to encourage you to read at least the first 6 chapters. They can be applied to any type of training and touch on working with managers, identifying root causes of performance issues, determining whether training will fix the problem and so on. The insights in the first 6 chapters are useful for trainers and managers.
At this moment we read this book together in a book club. You are still welcome to join. Please contact Madalina.
| |
Article: The Danger of Fluent lectures
|
Why is it important to use active learning approaches in your work and not lecture all the time?
| ||
Blog: What produces better learning outcomes: classroom introduction or e-learning?
|
Is a face to face training always better than online learning? Or is it something else that matters when you are looking at the learning outcomes?
| ||
Article: Everybody ready for the big migration to online college? Actually No
|
Be careful: This quick move to online courses is going to give eLearning a black eye and a bad rap. Most professors and K-12 teachers will not be able to offer a quality e-learning experience without collaborating with instructional designers or seasoned online instructors.
|
Making the step from classroom E&T to online E&T will not go well all by itself. It requires careful planning, design and execution.
| |
Competency V from the WMO Competency framework education and Training Providers
Deliver training and manage the learning experience
|
WMO/CALMet's Training Portal section V on delivering training
|
When you are on this site: Please check out the other resources too. Very valuable!
| |
Article: The Science of why remote meetings don’t feel the same
|
Some interesting food for thought as we do even more via remote meetings
|
Valuable Webinars on this subject:
What
|
By who
|
Description
|
Useful material
|
Migrating ILT to Digital Delivery
|
Allen Interactions
|
a virtual round about the best practices for migrating classroom training into virtual classes
| |
"How to Be Alone Together. Teaching Geosciences in Quarantine”
|
COMET
|
COMET staff hosted two editions of the timely webinar, "How to Be Alone Together…Teaching Geosciences in Quarantine." These webinars supported university professors and international hydrometeorological service trainers in the transition to online instruction in the time of COVID-19. The webinars demonstrated best practices for instructors in how to structure their online content and live sessions to foster connections, actively engage learners, and create effective assessments in both synchronous and asynchronous environments.
This 60-minute recording of the webinar is divided into three parts: Connection, Engagement and Assessment. |
· To view the webinar recording, visit: https://www.meted.ucar.edu/training_module.php?id=10066#.Xrp7QTpNcuU.
· To access the webinar slides, visit: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fdDkhL7onVgEpSlKdEKtCzGiiMpRuGn001KKrE-VA70/edit?usp=sharing
· We have also created a Padlet that contains links to many of the resources mentioned in the webinar. Please continue to add to the tools and ideas in the Padlet: https://padlet.com/guarente/mettrainer
· You may also be interested in an article on our website: “Which Produces Better Learning Outcomes: Classroom Instruction or e-Learning?” https://www.meted.ucar.edu/about_news_article.php?id=2011
· We have taken the essential ideas and tools from the webinar and placed them in the attached handout
We would love to hear more from you. If you have any questions that were not addressed during the webinar or want to discuss the training challenges that you are dealing with in your organization, please contact us.
We look forward to our continued collaboration, Andrea, Bryan, Matt, Tony and Tsvet
|
Mobile Learning Strategy & Design
|
Allen Interactions
|
Allen Interaction's sponsored webinar on mobile learning. The speaker, Clark Quinn, has several interesting (though now maybe a bit dated) books on e- and mobile learning. If you're interested, below is a link to yesterday's recording. The meat of it starts at 5:40 and it goes through about 37:00. I found the most interesting part of the webinar from 22:12 to 28:29 where he discusses supporting work using four 'types' of mobile interactions (formal, performance support, social, contextual). He then goes on to discuss how these types of mobile interactions can support learning and development programs; the best part of that is around 30:36 to 34:30.
|
Some new resources:
| what | what it is about | Where to find |
| Exploring, Adopting and Leading digital practices- equipping teachers and managers for effective hybrid teaching and learning approaches (Code: C0825) | This webinar will review a range of approaches and tools to support teachers and managers to plan engaging effective online teaching and learning. The session will recognise the many unknowns professionals in the sector have dealt with in planning for the new academic year but also the opportunities that this affords us all for more effective teaching and learning through hybrid models | use this link |
| webinar: online teaching strategies for flipped and blended learning approaches | Our webinar with Tom Garside, founder of Language Point Teacher Education, discusses online teaching strategies as we move into what may include a more blended learning approach for many. | use this link |
| Explore Connected and Effective Modules (online train the trainer resources) | this group of modules has been developed in response to the demands of Covid-19 and sector feedback. They are designed to support you through online student induction and help you adjust to the demands of remote teaching and learning. | use this link |
Other Valuable material to read if you want to develop yourself in your role as trainer, creator of learning material & organiser of training events:
What
|
What is it about?
|
Where to find?
|
Multimedia for learning: Methods and development (3rd Edition)
|
A comprehensive overview of learning theories and practical guide to creating multimedia based on education psychology research
| |
Measurement and Assessment in teaching (11th edition)
|
A book focused on creating all types of assessment questions
|
|
Performance-Focussed Smile Sheets: A radical Rethinking of a Dangerous Art Form
|
A book focused on creating evaluation instruments that indicate if your training was successful
| |
Millennials, Goldfish & Other Training Misconceptions
|
Some myths and superstitions have their fervent believers. But unlike everyday misconceptions such as “Bats are blind” or “George Washington had wooden teeth,” these learning myths can cost you. Fortunately, trained sceptic Clark Quinn has once and for all laid them bare before the research and evidence.
Now, myth busting has never been easier. Millennials, Goldfish & Other Training Misconceptions debunks more than 30 common assumptions of good learning design to help you avoid wasting time, resources, and goodwill on unproven practices. Drawing on cognitive psychology and learning sciences, Clark equips you to challenge the claims you’re likely to hear from peers and co-workers.
| |
Ruth Clark's work: Scenario-Based e-Learning: Evidence-based guidelines for online workforce learning.
|
This book focuses on the what, when, and how of scenario-based e-learning for workforce learning.
| |
Make it Stick
|
Make It Stick offers techniques for becoming more productive learners, and cautions against study habits and practice routines that turn out to be counterproductive.
| |
Minding the Weather: How Expert Forecasters Think
|
Daphne S. LaDue: The past 13 years of my career led me back to research on emerging scientific and societal issues of how emergency managers and weather forecasters think about and make decisions from weather data.
|
link to book on Amazon
|
Some distance learning resources:
What
|
What is it about
|
Where to find?
|
Other notes
|
Teaching and learning with Jupyter
|
A book on the use of Jupyter notebooks for learning, an interactive tool for tutorials on data analysis and many other data-related applications. Jupyter notebooks support Python and other programming languages. The authors promote vastly the use of demonstrations and to me this use of demos makes a lot of sense, mainly for those unfamiliar with the language.
It is also great tool to use them as a guide to learn a language or physical topics (atmospheric dynamic for example), by giving a notebook already written to students, with guidelines and place where they put their own results. Students can play with toy-models, and better understand the role of each part of an equation. Other teachers use them as a way for students to writing their lab report, as they have room to explain what they did, interlaced with pieces of codes. You get very well documented code with Jupyter, and it helps students to keep clear in their thinking.
|
If you would like to see what is possible with a notebook without installing anything, you may want to try : https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/jupyterlab/jupyterlab-demo/master?urlpath=lab/tree/demo It takes a few seconds on the first time you access it to appear, but then, you can play with a notebook on Lorentz attractor. In the middle column, click on the arrow to run the code, or run it step by step by clicking in each cell of code and then press CTRL-ENTER. You will see an interactive figure appear, which gives you an opportunity to change parameters in the equation and then see what happen. Used in a learning context, you could ask your students to give you a feedback or answer a few questions on this topic. Have fun!
|
The available WMO Education and Training Resources:
What
|
What is it about
|
Where to find
|
Other notes
|
WMO Education and Training Moodle site
|
A capacity development information resource, available in all WMO languages
|
you can access a list of courses open year-round, for which there is either no password protection or the users can self-enroll. A nice portal page for these open courses is under development. For now, a compilation of a few examples is listed below.
| |
Trainer Resources Portal
|
Nearly 100 resources about training competencies
|
in English at
https://etrp.wmo.int/course/view.php?id=30 in French at https://etrp.wmo.int/course/view.php?id=136 in Russian at https://etrp.wmo.int/course/view.php?id=188 | |
CALMet Moodle Course
| |||
Common Alerting Protocol courses
|
Self-enrollement
| ||
WDQMS Resources Portal for Regional WIGOS Centres
| |||
Seasonal Forecast Course Package T.O.P
|
Theory and Operational Principles at
https://training.climateservices.it/rtc-italy/t-o-p-seasonal-forecast/ |
RTC Italy
| |
Moodle Training Site for aviation
|
The Expert Team on Education Training and Competency (ET-ETC) under the former CAeM continues work and we are excited to introduce to you the New Moodle Training Site
|
The resources have been expanded and some are now available other WMO official languages.
| |
Global Campus E-Library
|
anyone can browse for learning resources by competency area.
|
or just type library.wmo.int and click the Global Campus tab
|
Modules, Simulations, Presentations, Cases, Information
- WMO Global Campus
- WMO Global Campus Event Calender
- WMO Library
- Compendium of WMO Competency Frame Works
- WMO-CGMS Virtual Laboratory
- MetEd Website (The COMET® Program)
- Meted en español (The COMET® Program)
- Eumetcal (The European Network for Meterological Education and Training)
