Projects/School of Data/Website/Roles

Vision
A vibrant community hub for a community sharing data skills. The platform acts as a repository for online course modules that can easily be converted to handouts and workshops.

Roles on the School of Data website
On the School of Data platform we envision the following Roles people can take. Note that people might want to take more than one role.

Description
Learners are people who come to the school of data to get skills for what they want to do. They often have a specific subset of interests and skills they want to acquire.

Skills
Skills vary but we’ll aim at helping people with basic computer skills to get up to shape. As long as they know how to use a web-browser and how to install and run programs on their computer they should be on board. Some learners will have more skills (e.g. proficient in excel) and will be bored by beginner-level courses.

Main Actions
Learners want to find learning materials, interact with experienced people and get questions answered. If there is a system motivating and guiding the learner through the materials: It’s a big win!

Description
We reach most people by doing workshops - the participants normally don’t receive any follow up - so if they want to repeat what you did at the workshop: the school of data site should be for them. They will come with questions to specific skills learned and need guidance and help. They also care for new material that would increase their skills.

Skills
Skills range - often they have covered the basics in the workshop and either need a refresh or help doing a specific task.

Main Actions
Ask questions in the Q&A forum, look at material that extends the skills they got from the workshop.

Description
We do have a large community of people that can teach skills around data - these people like to share what they know and learn something new.

Skills
Teachers are skilled in at least one area of the data pipeline - they know very well how to do this and like to share what they know with people who want to learn.

Main Actions
Writing blog posts or course materials to teach their skills to learner, answer questions and advertise events they are doing.

Description
Fellows are a special subset of members that are selected by the School of Data team - they get skill trainings and are able to hold official school of data events.

Skills
High skills in many areas - continuously improving

Main Actions
Sharing the skills they have, helping people, organizing and teaching at events.

Description
We all need editors to check on us (even if you are good in writing). Editors are special users with the ability to review blog posts and course materials before they become official. They can then publish the materials and align them in courses and curricula as they see fit.

Skills
Editors are experienced teachers who know how to create curricula and what is important in courses - they also cross check blog posts

Main Actions
Reviewing what other people wrote - figuring out how things belong together.

Description
Administrators are trusted super users. Because they hold powers that gives them control over various things (such as deleting or changing user accounts, posts etc) they need to be super careful.

Skills
Besides having a large amount of trust from the community, administrators know the school of data site like their pocket. They know all the little knobs they can use to adjust if stuff goes haywire and are able to help and react immediately.

Main Actions
Everything that is needed to keep the community afloat.