Survey – Carpentry@UiO Instructor Status Quo

Survey – Carpentry@UiO Instructor Status Quo #

Introduction and Purpose #

Dear fellow Carpenter!

The Carpentry@UiO community is alive and well – a new team of coordinators from the University Library together with the Interim Board are working hard to support you in teaching workshops in the Carpentries spirit.

In order to gain a better and more up-to-date overview of who we are as a community, the Interim Board and the University Library have created a short survey about the status quo of our instructors.

If you are a certified The Carpentries instructor (Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, Library Carpentry) and you are located in the Oslo area, we kindly ask you to take 5 minutes to answer our survey.

Your contribution will make sure that the Carpentry@UiO community thrives!

Confidentiality #

Your responses will be collected in Nettskjema and exported as an .xlsx file to be then shared on UiO’s G-Suite platform with the members of the Interim and later Elected Board and the Carpentry@UiO coordinators at the University of Oslo Library. We will keep your responses for no longer than five years after which they will be deleted. We do not intend to publish any of the responses.

Risks and Benefits #

There are no direct risks or benefits to you from filling out this survey and no compensation. We hope to use these results to improve how we run the community and Carpentries workshops.

You are not required to take this survey. You may quit the survey at any time or skip any item other than those required to correctly sort your responses.

Questions #

  1. Your name (first name and surname)?
  2. What is your e-mail address?
  3. Are you a certified The Carpentries Instructor? Y / N
  • Certified means that you have successfully completed the Carpentries Instructor training. The training consists of a two-day workshop and three complementary exercises that must be finished within 90 days after the workshop.
  1. When did you last teach or co-teach a Carpentries workshop at UiO?
  • Please paste in the workshop URL (you can look it up on the Carpentry@UiO workshop log on GitHub). If you cannot find your workshop there, please fill in the year and month instead.
  1. How many times per year are you willing to teach or co-teach a Carpentries workshop at UiO?
  • You can contribute to a workshop in many ways. As a lead instructor who is responsible for the lesson selection and layout, but also as a co-instructor, where you can teach anything from entire episodes to small chunks of an episode.
  1. Which lesson(s) are you comfortable teaching or co-teaching?
  • We host workshops in Software Carpentry (SWC) and Data Carpentry (DC). Check all lessons that apply.
  1. Do you feel that you, as an instructor, get enough support from Carpentry@UiO? Y/N
  • If No was chosen: Please tell us what you would like us to improve
  1. Do you feel that you, as an instructor, know how to propose, plan, and organise a workshop at UiO? Y/N
  • If No was chosen: Please tell us what you would like us to provide.
  1. Are you registered as a certified Carpentries Instructor on the Carpentries Website (https://carpentries.org/instructors/) with your location being Oslo?
  • Please consider updating your profile information in the Carpentries database AMY!
  1. Is there anything you would like to let us know? - Comments