Ten simple rules for measuring the impact of workshops.

Sufi S., Nenadic A., Silva R., Duckles B., Simera I., de Beyer JA., Struthers C., Nurmikko-Fuller T., Bellis L., Miah W., Wilde A., Emsley I., Philippe O., Balzano M., Coelho S., Ford H., Jones C., Higgins V.

Workshops are used to explore a specific topic, to transfer knowledge, to solve identified problems, or to create something new. In funded research projects and other research endeavours, workshops are the mechanism used to gather the wider project, community, or interested people together around a particular topic. However, natural questions arise: how do we measure the impact of these workshops? Do we know whether they are meeting the goals and objectives we set for them? What indicators should we use? In response to these questions, this paper will outline rules that will improve the measurement of the impact of workshops.

DOI

10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006191

Type

Journal article

Journal

Plos comput biol

Publication Date

08/2018

Volume

14

Keywords

Education, Humans, Knowledge, Learning, Research, Weights and Measures

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