Participants perceptions & expectations
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By design, the IBT course is taught over 3 months, to provide an introductory level knowledge and skills to basic bionformatics users \cite{Gurwitz2017}. The core IBT team and various instructors have placed great emphasis on defining clear learning outcomes prior to each of the 6 modules in the 2017 iteration. Therefore course participants had clear expectations out of each module, and we see largely positive indicators in their responses about these modules (Figure \ref{197355}, and supplementary_figures_7,8,9,10,11,12). Considering that the majority of the participants are in their MSc or PhD level (Figure (Figure \ref{189578}C, supplementary_figuresupplementary_figure
Prior to the course, participants’ perspective about their familiarity with the content was a good indicator of their knowledge.
\cite{Gurwitz2017}