Train-the-Trainer for Data Quality Teaching
Empower your teaching – strengthen data quality competence
Program Overview
The KODAQS Train-the-Trainer Program is a unique, fully free and flexible professional development opportunity for academic instructors who wish to confidently integrate or enrich data quality topics in their courses.
Whether you teach survey methods, text analysis, sensor data, or linked data - this program equips you with practical guidance and adaptable open educational resources (OER) to enrich your curriculum and help your students develop critical data literacy skills.
Our overall purpose is to enable teaching multipliers to sensitize students to the topic of data quality at an early stage of their career.
Why join?
🎓 Boost your teaching: Learn how to raise awareness of data quality issues early on and teach your students to handle data responsibly.
📂 Access ready-to-use materials: Download slides, exercises, code, and practical examples from our more than 100 learning bites – easily adaptable to your course level.
⏳ Learn at your own pace: 100% asynchronous – complete it when it fits your schedule.
💡 Share and multiply: Become a multiplier for better data practices in academia.
What is included?
Practical guidelines on integrating data quality topics into different courses.
A rich collection of open educational resources for immediate use in your classroom.
Access to all materials via our easy-to-use Moodle platform.
Some content examples as insights:
Survey data | Survey Weighting, Data Harmonization, ... |
Linked data | Data Linkage for Data Quality, ... |
Digital behavioral data | Data Donation as a Data Source, ... |
Who can participate?
This program is designed for lecturers, tutors, and instructors at universities and colleges who wish to expand their teaching materials and stay up-to-date with best practices in data quality. It covers data quality topics such as survey, text, sensor or linked data.
Registration & Key Dates
📅 Program Duration: August 1, 2025, to December 31, 2026
🔑 Rolling registrations – register now!
⏰ Training Platform Access Begins: August 1, 2025
How to Register
Registration opens on June 25, 2025. To register, please send an email to kodaqs(at)gesis(dot)org with your full name, information about your institutional affiliation, and a brief explanation of what types of data you are interested in and in which subjects, degree programs or other education courses you would like to use the materials.
About us
The KODAQS Academy Train-the-Trainer Program is offered by the Competence Center for Data Quality in the Social Sciences (KODAQS), jointly managed by the School of Social Science at the University of Mannheim, the Social Data Science and AI Lab at the Ludwig Maximilian University, and GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences.
For further information and questions about the program please send an email to the KODAQS team (kodaqs(at)gesis(dot)org).
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