Learner Profiles
In this section we provide some details of example learner profiles and suggest some possible different pathways or technical focuses to consider when teaching or planning a lesson based around this Docker material. As such, the information in this section is not designed to define fixed approaches and structures for teaching this material. It is instead aimed to provide ideas and inspiration and to encourage you to think about your audience when preparing to teach this material. The information here is based on both discussions about the intended audiences for this material and on direct experiences of instructors who have taught it at workshops following different technical pathways.
Learner profiles
We begin by providing some example learner profiles to highlight the potential target audience and the types of different research and technical backgrounds that you may find among learners engaging with this material. With these profiles, we aim to encourage you to think about the learners attending your workshop(s) and which episodes it may be most useful to teach.
TODO: add learner profiles
Considering things from a higher level, we also highlight three core groups of learners, based on job roles, who you may find attending lessons covering this material. While recognising that there are likely to be many learners who don’t fit into one of the following groups, or who span more than one of them, we hope that highlighting these groups helps to provide an example of the different types of skills and expertise that learners engaging with this material may have:
Researchers: TODO
RSEs: TODO
Systems professionals: TODO