an Open Science Course ?

brucellino commented 8 years ago

We are using open Edx in the Sci-GaOA project - see http://courses.sci-gaia.eu - to deliver courseware.

Would this be interesting to you ? We are mostly focussed on providing federated services and infrastructure, rather than the actual execution of open science, so maybe we could provide access to your project to this ? #

konrad commented 8 years ago

Thanks for this pointe, @brucellino. Depending of the scope / output of this project (which we still need to define) edX could be an option.

aleimba commented 8 years ago

This is related to issue #20 (Create online database of Open Science resources).

marahe commented 8 years ago

My colleagues and I from the project "Science 2.0 and Open Science in Higher Education" #31 discussed about an open science course, online and open to all, with speakers form different institutions and the main topics that should be included when teaching open science for BA and MA students. A kind of series of lectures. Is anyone interested?

aleimba commented 8 years ago

I like the idea of an Open Science course. However, I still favor the Software Carpentry (SWC, http://software-carpentry.org/) and Data Carpentry (http://www.datacarpentry.org/) materials which are all text-based.

I think it was Greg Wilson from SWC in an Open Science Radio episode (probably this one: http://www.openscienceradio.de/2016/02/09/osr038-software-carpentry-with-greg-wilson-en/), who said they also experimented with video material. But they discarded it, because firstly making the videos is costly and secondly maintaining them is even more so. A text-file (markdown etc.) is easily editable and crowd-sourcable to be kept up-to-date, whereas a video is not.

Nevertheless, videos can be a nice addition and support lessons.

marahe commented 8 years ago

I see. Your are right. What I thought of was a course included in one university semester, where students are taught face-to-face, but additionally have online lecture series about "open science", where exchange and discussions with students from other institutes are possible.To get students into to topic "open science", also for BAs and MAs. So yes, as addition to online open science materials. I think videos and webinars are good incentives for those who just step into the topic. And such a series could be included into our informaiton science curriculum (which is important for BAs and MAs).

matthiasfromm commented 8 years ago

Thinking about the "how" of bringing educational material into a form that is suitable to not only be delivered online but to be specifically tailored to be consumed online (and support the characteristics of online-based learning) is the core of may daily job. And judging from what I expect as the outcomes of this project I do see quite a potential for an open online course. Video is probably not of much use in most of the topics, but it usually has it's place within the media mix. The question would be what to do with it, or more specific: what to put into the video form. I can see much more use of text-based lessons and can even think of some nice hands-on interactive lessons for a couple of topics. But I think that is indeed a question that we can better answer when we know what specifically comes out of this project. Quite similar to the question of what tool to use to deliver an open online course - besides Open edX there are a number of tools one could use (and I'm not even speaking of the classics like Moodle).

kubke commented 8 years ago

Hello - we are getting close to the end of developing our course for delivery at post-graduate level at the University of Auckland (Thanks Mozilla Science Lab for helping get this started). We have been working on developing a pedagogical model that allows elements of the course to be delivered individually plus a narrative that fits a one semester course that includes all of the teaching modules. We are currently collating content, but the general structure of the course is pretty much there. Some assessment elements will live under our University Canvas - which hopefully we will be able to push to the commons.

If any of this is of use to you and/or if you want to contribute http://digital-skills-for-researchers.github.io/coursebook/

matthiasfromm commented 8 years ago

Hi Fabiana! This looks indeed interesting, thanks for the pointer towards it!

Just had a look at the Development Progress - where are you developing/maintaining the content?

Some assessment elements will live under our University Canvas - which hopefully we will be able to push to the commons.

Are you referring to the LMS Canvas?

kubke commented 8 years ago

Hi Matthias,

On 1 June 2016 at 18:15, Matthias Fromm notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi Fabiana! This looks indeed interesting, thanks for the pointer towards it!

Thanks - we are progressing well

Just had a look at the Development Progress - where are you developing/maintaining the content?

It will eventually live in or be linked from that site. We are triaging and collating. Since this will be the primary site for the students to go to, we need to be careful to moderate how much content will be there.

Some assessment elements will live under our University Canvas - which hopefully we will be able to push to the commons.

Are you referring to the LMS Canvas?

UoAuckland adopted LMS Canvas this year. While we plan to run the course on GitHub, some elements will have to remain within canvas because of privacy issues wiith the students. But whichever components (quizes etc) we develop there we should be able to easily push to the commons (and the link from github)

Our funding from the Vice Chancellor is to develop this course so that it can be delivered as a course (as we are doing in this pilot, where there is a narrative that is not just the sequence of modules but links them together within the concept of reproducible science) while having each module be self-contained enough so that it can be delivered as individual 'lessons' for professional development of staff. We have spent a lot of time with the needs analysis and the pedagogical design - so we are thrilled we are in the position of putting the final blocks in :)

-F

— You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub https://github.com/OKScienceDE/Open_Science_101/issues/22#issuecomment-222902800, or mute the thread https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe/AAuqnhcOOzko-lABZUBlAPDQCRSmncs_ks5qHSOUgaJpZM4IiZv- .

M Fabiana Kubke Chair Advisory Panel Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/ Department of Anatomy | University of Auckland | New Zealand (+64) 9 373-7599 Ext 86002 | (+64)9 923 6002 (direct) | Mobile: (+64) 210 437 121

matthiasfromm commented 8 years ago

Hi Fabiana!

Thanks for all this interesting info!

I agree, pushing parts of content from Canvas to Github should be no problem - in the end there's always the IMS CC and QTI content packages one could use for this.

What I really like about your course is, that it actually is a full course and not only a few hours. This topic is so wide (and important) that it IMHO absolutely right to dedicate a full course to it. That's also our reasoning - to give it the scope and time the various topics within open science need to be fully graspable (although in our project it will be a number of courses dedicated to the single big facets of open science).

I'm really looking forward to see your project grow and develop. Will try to keep an eye on it and hopefully receive some insights from you about acceptance and use of the course later on.

kubke commented 8 years ago

On 1 June 2016 at 20:09, Matthias Fromm notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi Fabiana!

Thanks for all this interesting info!

I agree, pushing parts of content from Canvas to Github should be no problem - in the end there's always the IMS CC and QTI content packages one could use for this.

Indeed - that should be possible, although there is advantage to maintaining the Canvas version for those who use it as an LMS. It will contain a slightly different aspect of the elements of the course (quizzes, assessments, marking rubrics, etc) which are important to be 'pinchable' too

What I really like about your course is, that it actually is a full course and not only a few hours. This topic is so wide (and important) that it IMHO absolutely right to dedicate a full course to it. That's also our reasoning - to give it the scope and time the various topics within open science need to be fully graspable (although in our project it will be a number of courses dedicated to the single big facets of open science).

This course started as a conversation between a few of us and Kaitlin Thaney in new zealand about 4 years ago - the need for a full course that is part of the curriculum. We had a stint with Billy Meinke then at Creative Commons at MozFest in 2014 and then continued some work locally in NZ. The funding from the vice chancellor that kicked in end of last year is what made this possible. We are piloting at entry level research students (Honours and early Masters). Indeed - what was hard was to build the modules as self contained units, but also as a course that wasn't just a series of disconnected elements. But indeed, the reasoning is that the modules could be taught in different contexts by selecting a specific set or number of modules. Having the course delivered in an authentic setting was a challenge in the design - but we think we have fond a way.There has been heaps of inputs from all over the place. Our acknowledgement list is longer than our interim report!!!

I'm really looking forward to see your project grow and develop. Will try to keep an eye on it and hopefully receive some insights from you about acceptance and use of the course later on.

The course will run on GitHub, starting end of July (we still have to set that up) so there will be plenty of opportunity to see the course 'as it happens'. We are extremely excited about that. We are also hoping to get the approvals to run research on the efficacy too so this pilot should hopefully help us all learn from it. We will be staying agile along the way, so we hope to receive feedback from the broader community as we go along as well.

— You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub https://github.com/OKScienceDE/Open_Science_101/issues/22#issuecomment-222922391, or mute the thread https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe/AAuqnsSeKTKnYJWecvV-6j9Tu7XK5Q_cks5qHT4ogaJpZM4IiZv- .

M Fabiana Kubke Chair Advisory Panel Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/ Department of Anatomy | University of Auckland | New Zealand (+64) 9 373-7599 Ext 86002 | (+64)9 923 6002 (direct) | Mobile: (+64) 210 437 121

OKScienceDE / Open_Science_101

an Open Science Course ? #22