Welcome | Welkom | Benvenuti e Benvenute | to repository of the project "Building a Community around the Open Science MOOC". Here you'll find more information about our project.
The Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands runs once a year a Massive Online Open Course on Open Science on the edX platform: MOOC Open Science: Share you research with the world.
This course
- runs once a year (but material is available all year long) since 2018.
- is made of 6 modules: Introduction to Open Science, Open Data, Open Access Publishing, FAIR Software, Visibility as a Researcher and Citizen Science.
- is intended for students, PhD candidates, researchers, support staff, policy makes that want to learn the basic principles of Open Science.
"We work with a team of teachers at TU Delft to run a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) on Open Science. We want to design an engaging course that shows the participants the advantages of Open Science and motivate them to join and contribute to the Open Science movement."
Since the start, the number of participants per run has been decreasing. Some participants actively contribute to the discussion fora writing and responding to other comments, but general engagement is still quite limited, with high dropout rates. Another issue is that we do not know if participants engage with open science activities or join local open science community after the course.
Our goals are to
- Create engaging and inclusive course material motivating the participants to embrace Open Science.
- Show the importance of community in Open Science, stimualting the participants to be part of their local one.
- Improve the way we work as a team.
We Lisanne Walma (she/her) and Alessandra Candian (she/her) are the project initiators. We are colleague at TU Delft and friends with a passion for education.
The creation of a MOOC stands on the contribution of many people at TU Delft including developers of content for specific modules (Introduction, Open Data, Open Access Publishing, FAIR Software, Visibility and Citizen Science), moderators, educational designers and developers, administrative staff and media/communication staff.
- Our Code of conduct: LINK
- Our Roadmap: LINK
- Our Project developement plan to improve Open Working as a team: LINK
- Presentation for the OLS-5 programme LINK graduation on Zenodo: LINK
- Our Speedblog post for OLS-5: LINK
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