# Train the Trainer Workshop: Asi@Connect #
* **Dates:** August 18-21, 2026
* **Location:** Thimphu, Bhutan
* **Host:** [DrukREN](https://drukren.bt/)
* **Venue:** TBD
## Workshop ##
* [Detailed Agenda](agenda.html) (includes links to presentations and schedule)
* [Participants](participants.html)
* [Instructors and Organizers](instructors.html)
* [Reference Materials](references.html)
* [Sponsors](sponsors.html "Workshop Sponsors")
* Group Photo
* [Survey](https://nsrc.org/limesurvey/)
## Goals ##
This is a five-day workshop designed to teach and practice pedagogical methods for teaching as well as technical considerations for using the NSRC Virtualized Training and Materials Development Platforms. The goal of this workshop is to provide sustainable technical expertise to support the current rapid build-out of research and education networks (RENs) in emerging regions and to expand local network engineering expertise in university IT departments and REN organizations to support these emerging RENs as well as to work with other regional or national networking organizations to deliver targeted TtT programs to help communities of interest enable more self-sufficiency.
## Objectives ##
* General objective: students will be able to confidently plan and deliver lessons.
* Specific teaching objectives: after the workshop, the students will be able to:
* Write specific objectives
* Write a lesson plan
* Select classroom activities
* Design and use a teaching aid (handouts, demo device, whiteboard, imagery, presentations, etc.)
* Design and use a classroom assessment method (e.g. short answer test)
* Plan a course of instruction or workshop
* Specific objectives around the NSRC virtualized training platform:
* Install and configure Ubuntu Linux to build the NSRC Virtual Training Platform interface
* Configure Linux Incus containers and install GNS3
* Use Git to download NSRC VTP training platform repository
* Understand how to use, start and run the container-based virtualized network and linux server platform
* Use NSRC Materials Development Platform to obtain training materials, including labs, for teaching
