Online learning to train users of muons and neutrons at ISIS

Abstract

Online learning is being adopted across a wide range of disciplines, providing remote access to resources that serves to widen participation in training, and allowing courses to be created that are accessible to the diverse range of learning styles that have recently been identified. Online resources can also be used to supplement more traditional in-person training by bringing a cohort of learners up to a common minimum level beforehand, distributing materials during training, and reinforcing learning after the event. Over the last six years ISIS has developed a range of online learning materials about muon and neutron science, that can be used independently or in association with in-person training. Here we discuss the materials now available and how they were designed to work effectively, set out the opportunities and challenges of online training for facility users, and summarise planned future developments.