 Thank you. So I'm assuming that my screen is showing the actual screen and not some weird back thing So it's not tell me So I yeah, thanks for that. I'm going to talk a little bit about that fluency today, but with a particular emphasis I guess on How it's impacted on on a part of our workforce we the data fluency program Is designed to teach digital skills across the university? And as you'll have seen from some other presentations also Monash's partners and people who work with outside the university as well But we as a way of Being able to support that we use a combination of volunteers and Graduate students who work who are students within the university and that's been a really interesting Model for us. We you know when we started this We thought we'd be able to do it before with volunteers and that was certainly the original Basis that we did it on But we found that if we wanted to scale it to the level that we wanted to scale it to But we needed a pool of people who could help build our community and Do some other things so? That's a sort of a bit of a background to What we do and we go? So we've had with you know like everybody where we have a community of practice and that's one of the things that we are Working on a developing across the program in our case Our community practice consists of a bunch of different things. We have workshops in research skills And I'll talk a little bit more about that and in a minute We have monthly seminars and networking and they were originally A face-to-face session that we would have once a month We've now moved those online, which has been interesting. We've lost a bit of the networking, but we've gained an audience When we had it in a you know in a room some of the university We got a reasonable turnout every month, but you know, we've now had seminars Where you know, we've had a hundred and hundred fifty two hundred people turn up Which has been you know fantastic and that's that you know one of the the upsides of being struck stuck in COVID We have a Weekly drop-in that we usually coincide with the seminar so we let the seminar and continue the drop-in Again, I'll show you some of the numbers on that a bit later on but it this is one of the areas We really thought we'd drop off Cobb and world, but we've been able to build and sustain that as well, which has been really interesting I've been looking at opportunities for networking by connecting ourselves up to other things that are similar outside the outside the university So we recently Connected up with the data science Melbourne meet-up group and had someone from there speak in one of our slots That was a really great way of introducing some of our people to stuff that was going on outside and also bringing people from outside into To hear about what we were doing so that was really good And now we're all you know like most people participating in hackathons as well. So You know, these are as I say run partly by a combination of of our own ongoing staff. It used to be administration Volunteers who set the agendas for a lot of the workshops and create a lot of the content and then our support People who we call associate instructors So this is just a quick slide showing, you know, the sort of tools that we are currently doing so we as I say We have about 18 different topics. We do about two sessions a week Some things like our in Python we do every two weeks other ones we do a little bit less frequently It's in a lot of interest this year in power BI and red cap which Sort of seem to be picking up a little bit of momentum in terms of things that people are using Also seeing and there's a mention of this at the one of the earlier sessions Lot more interested in interest in AI machine learning and natural language processing and deep learning that sort of stuff as well. So That's been interesting In terms of in vivo, we're not actually doing any workshops on that at the moment But we are trying to offer that as a drop-in and as a support topic So that's a bit of a change the the university has some commercial Providers for the vivo training. So rather than trying to duplicate that or compete with that We try to just help support people who are using it rather than time to the sessions ourselves There was also a talk earlier today about some of the challenges in trying to help people decide what to take a workshop in and the assumptions that people have about You know, what is the tool that you're supposed to be using and why she views it and so on So we have what we call a toolkit Which is a website that helps to identify why you should use a particular tool and for what purpose and What's better than others for particular solutions? The drop-ins are also quite helpful in terms of helping people decide what they want or to have that follow-up conversation about what they Hate to do things better And we make all of our learning resources open access using github So they're out there available So people Want to review them or can't make it to a session because of work or whatever else can still get access to it so this is Some of our training and some of our instructor trainers As mentioned before some of them are professional staff members who you know very generously give some of their time to run some of the sessions and to To help, you know, again, it's a really interesting comments about you know Trying to keep this stuff up to date find out where the new trends are what needs to be done And so those staff are invaluable In terms of keeping us in touch with making sure the sessions are accurate Currents more than moving on the way they should be Some of them will I recently from a bioinformatics platform some of them for our data science and AI platform And some of them are for other bits of the university like financial health and econometrics We also have what we call associate instructors who are casual staff They're mostly graduate research students a few of them are taking a master of data science course at Monash We had a bit of an open call for people who were interested in participating in this About a year ago, I guess maybe longer than that And we then went through an induction process with those students in terms of training them in the carpentries method of teaching Getting them involved in you know, starting them off as helpers in that model and then Moving some of them becoming instructors and that way we were able to take some of the pressure of our volunteers because the instructors were coming from the paid cohort the volunteers could Concentrate on their day jobs or help us with new material and so on So we've got people from a really interesting range of backgrounds engineering bioinformatics science astrophysics econometrics business statistics commerce Um Like most people we started off in the carpentries model with a very hands-on face-to-face way of doing things and You know, if you'd asked me a year ago, would we be moving online? I would have said no, no, it'll never work This is a good model a little bit, you know, that's the scale terribly well because I mean so many people you can fit in a room but you know, it um, you know, it's very practical. It's hands-on people walk away Having learned a lot and also having networks with people, which is one of the things we really like about this particular model But we've now had to you know, obviously change that Changed it up quite a lot and move into an online into the online way The associate instructors sort of nominate which workshops they're interested in teaching Or helping out in and they put and they you know The benefit for them is that they actually get exposed to new technologies and new solutions that they might not have otherwise um So we've had a few people who started off as python is the only answer who are now actually interested in r and using r um And they're also thinking about how they can improve their own research because they're Learning about the tools that they're using learning what you can do with it Engaging with other researchers and doing stuff and actually expanding their repertoire And that's been a real a real bonus I think for a lot of the students who are exposed to things that they might not have otherwise have been exposed to Because they have to learn how to use it to teach it And as I said before the professional staff are increasingly looking at that next level and it's I've been really interested to see Quite a few people talking about how do we move past? Introductory sessions and things like are and get on to that advanced stuff and that next level stuff um, and You know, we're starting to think about that as well. We've got a couple of intermediate prep sessions But we're really trying to think about well, how can we expand that even more? Because uh, it is quite tricky otherwise um And and there's that demand for it. I think fly there we go So this is our step so for the last couple of years these are actually as you can see just to the end of august um So in march, we were in february We were all about online face-to-face teaching and no online in march We were in trouble and in april. We were up and running with online teaching And uh, that was a fantastic effort from everyone involved to rethink the way we were doing things rethink the pedagogy we've Now probably done more workshops this year than we did in all of last year Um, we have as you can see clearly had more people participate Um, then we did last year. I was I was hoping my my goal this year We were trained 1500 people this year. I didn't have participants and we're going to go well past that We're able to offer bigger classes online um, we're able to deal with uh, uh, you know a few drop-in rooms We don't have those space requirements that we would have done And we had more people turn up because they've had time on their hands because they're stuck at home Because they don't have to drive somewhere You know our campuses are quite spread out and if everything's at one campus. It's a bit of a trek um, the dropping numbers have actually increased Quite a lot as well and the drop-ins have been quite successful Again, this is something we didn't know whether it's going to work But people seem actually more comfortable Coming to a virtual dropping in some ways. It's a little bit less threatening than being in the room with strangers for some reason um So, uh, we have in fact again exceeded all of last year's numbers already this year and uh, and you know The engagement in that drop-in space has been really good um So this is the traditional model that we've worked with this has been you know having to move into this online Model has been again really valuable for the instructors They've had to do a much more multifaceted online approach that I've been doing So a lot of slack chat a lot of creating online resources thinking about how to do things in zoom Juggling larger rooms dealing with the stuff that everybody's had to deal with into teaching You know the fact that it's less engaging if you people's cameras are often you can't tell what what's going on But and the other advantage of being online is we've actually got to get more of our partners in We've been able to get our Malaysian campus students involved for the first time And that's been really much appreciated by that campus as well. And now we're looking at how we can create a virtual Communion for them as well So when we go back to normal, whatever that might be They'll be able to do some face-to-face stuff there as well So we've also had to get people used to working in zoom and teaching in zoom And so these are some of the sort of ways that we've been using to help people engage As well as doing, you know, somebody Had more activities Breaking up the length of the sessions, you know, we used to have a lot of one-day sessions Which was survivable if you were doing it face-to-face because you've got to have a little break But we're pretty horrendous on zoom. So we do them more over two days rather than one which has been Which has really helped Using the breakout rooms as a way of helping people keep up or move ahead if there's a little bit of a challenge there teaching people about The danger of zoom bonding which you know was a bit of an issue early on Not that I think we ever had anyone to have it do it, but it was, you know, we were very conscious of it I think zoom was improved to the point where that's less of an issue And generally, you know, we've found that having a community of people who are working together means that they're also sharing ideas and working together So we've been having Collaborative teaching options chance for them to sit together troubleshoot issues compare notes Think about I tried this. This didn't work. I was in this session and this wasn't happening And that's been really good I know there's been a lot of discussion about no shows and this has been a this started off less is a problem when we moved into the common world that has picked up again We mainly dealt with it by just increasing the the the actual number of enrollments we take On the assumption that a certain percentage of people won't turn up But it's still a little bit of frustrating because it's there's an administrative burden on us and just having those people In the system and having to deal with what they're trying to do So we asked the the the students what they would what they would benefit they were getting out of this and This word cloud is you know, some of the things that they've mentioned. So It's been great for their own research. It's taken them out of there a little bit out of their space It's helped them network with people outside their own discipline. It's helped them think about teaching and what that means They've been able to share approaches with other people Uh, they often have met, you know people outside of monash. So, you know, we teach with A lot of some of our volunteers work in the hospitals So that's been terrific for them to be exposed to that stuff And you know, they had to think on their feet a little bit while we've invented this this new way of Or tried to do this new way of doing things And we've now been doing this long enough. So some of these people are finishing Which is a shame because they're fantastic, but the good thing is we're seeing them go out and getting jobs Which is not easy in the current market and It's been really exciting to see them, you know progress out into Into the into the broader world And thinking about their ideas of Of what they could get a job in a little bit more perhaps than they did when they started with us So that's it for me We have a whole bunch of communication methods And we're happy for you to follow us and contact us if you have any questions But um, otherwise I'll stop now and see what else we have to say