Optional activity:

Creating a participant persona

You need to identify who the audience is for your training. To do this you can create one or two personas or profile of potential audience members. An example avatar created at GetAvataaars.com

Understanding your audience's role, motivations, fears etc, will help you shape the design and content of your course. 

If you want you can to give your characters names, and perhaps a small bio and even create an avatar (using an online tool like GetAvataaars)  or draw a picture. You can include: 

  • Professional role 
  • Daily tasks
  • Connection to open science

 Source: Adapted from an activity on the ORION Train the Trainer MOOC