Open Scholarship

Content overview

This Open Scholarship Train-the-Trainer curriculum is developed by the Center for Open Science (COS) to provide participants who already have basic working knowledge on open scholarship an opportunity to further strengthen their knowledge and practical skills in open scholarship adoption and learn about how to teach COS’s Openness and Reproducibility Research Practices Training to other researchers or practitioners within their institutions or communities. Upon completion, a Certification of Completion will be jointly issued by UKRN and COS as recognition.

This curriculum is curated from use cases developed in collaboration with the community of open researchers that COS engages with. Training sessions will be led by experts in open scholarship trends and technology from COS. Through real world examples and hands-on activities, participants will walk through material that enables them to recognize reporting guidelines and good practices, document their research planning, develop collaborative environments for data management on the Open Science Framework (OSF), and utilize ways to share their research outcomes to maximize their discoverability and citation. In addition, the pedagogical methods used to develop, facilitate, and adapt the modules to participant communities of research will be shared, discussed, and demonstrated.

All activities and resources will be prepared, implemented, and made available with an appropriate license in OSF, a dynamic, free project management tool.

Learning objectives

  • Describe open scholarship and its practices
  • Describe the benefits and mandates in performing open scholarship
  • Describe barriers, risks, and costs associated with open scholarship practices
  • Summarize research evidence supporting open scholarship adoption
  • Describe the importance of data management
  • Describe the components of FAIR data
  • Identify appropriate data management strategies
  • Define metadata
  • Describe the importance of data sharing
  • Identify trusted repositories for sharing data
  • Articulate considerations for when to share (or not share) data
  • Organize your project materials
  • Set up a collaborative environment for research team on OSF
  • Choose appropriate access and permission settings for your workspace
  • Document changes to your project

Pedagogical Learning Objectives

  • Identify relevant open scholarship practices for your community
  • Explain why open scholarship is relevant to your community
  • Develop measurable learning objectives
  • Adapt course materials to suit the needs of your community
  • Measure the learning of your community

Completion criteria

To receive Certification of Completion, participants must attend all 3 online sessions and 1 office hour. Completers are also expected to create one deliverable (e.g., training module), deliver it to a relevant community, and share with other trainers in the certification program. Learners with complementary skills can work together in small teams on activities and the deliverable.

Examples of deliverables include: present to a department seminar, lead a conference workshop, or give a lecture in your program, within the 3 months after the final training session. Participants may choose to create the deliverable as a team or individually.

It is required to discuss your deliverable plan during an office hour or a one-on-one consultation session. We request that any new or adapted materials developed by participants be shared with an appropriate license on OSF, and that these and any assessment outcomes or other proof of delivery be shared with COS.

Audience

  • Researchers
  • Research support staff
  • Graduate students
  • Primary investigators

Level

Introductory, intermediate.

Prerequisite skills, expertise and experience

General familiarity with research processes

Overall likely time commitment

  • 6 training hours
  • 1 office hour
  • 10 hours creating and presenting deliverables

Event date and time

Introduction to open scholarship (2 hours):

  • 10th April, 1400-1600 BST

Hands-on data management kickstarter (2 hours):

  • 17th April, 1400-1600 BST

Organizing painless research collaborations (2 hours):

  •  24th April, 1400-1600 BST

Office Hours: 13th-17th May

Deliverables due: 23:59 BST, 26th July 2024

Registration deadline

22nd March 2024

Training partner

Center for Open Science

Location

Online

Cost to institution per participant

1000 US Dollars

Number of attendees

10 per cohort. Two cohorts running

Application

Application form