Academic Life and Culture

 

Open access journal publication in health and medical research and open science: Benefits, challenges and limitations

Scientific progress, including in evidence-based medicine, requires all available evidence to be accessed, scrutinised, interpreted and used. Missing or incomplete evidence creates biases and errors in later research. Open science practices are …

Open and Reproducible Science Syllabus

To provide educators with an example of how they can draw resources from FORRT’s educational nexus to integrate open scholarship into their teaching, FORRT has developed an Open and Reproducible Science 101 syllabus. FORRT’s syllabus was developed …

Open and Reproducible Science walks into a classroom

Julia Strand is Associate Professor of Psychology at Carleton College and she teaches courses such as Introduction to Psychology, The Psychology of Spoken Words and Sensation and Perception. Julia has also recently prepared and taught a course on …

Open and Responsible Researcher Reward and Recognition (OR4)

The Programme aim is to accelerate the uptake of high quality open research practices. The Center for Open Science theory of change highlights five types of action that can promote change. This project is focused on making open research rewarded and, …

Open Education Challenge Series

The OE Challenge is a learning resource of small doable activities you can work through at your own pace. The series is a fun way for educators to get a taste of  Open Education Practices (OEP) in micro-activities that you can do in 10 minutes or …

Open Educational Resources: Equitable and Affordable Nursing Education

This research report describes findings from a study conducted to learn students’ experiences using open educational resources (OER) in an online nursing research course. Twenty-three students participated in a pilot study in which traditional …

Open Pedagogy: A Driving Force for Meaningful Learning

In this article, we show how the concepts of Open Education and Open Pedagogy make learning more meaningful. We argue that the application of meaningful learning is essential in light of current developments in higher education. We do this based on …

Open Pedagogy: how to engage your students and transform education

Education is not only about learning facts and skills but also about preparing students for active and successful participation in society. Traditional methods of teaching, however, may not always fully engage students or show them how their …

Open peer review, pros and cons from the perspective of an early career researcher

Peer review is considered by many to be a fundamental component of scientific publishing. In this context, open peer review (OPR) has gained popularity in recent years as a tool to increase transparency, rigor, and inclusivity in research. But how …

Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA)

The Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA) nurtures cross-sector coalitions to tackle the systems-level challenges that are impeding the adoption of open science at scale. We are committed to this effort because a more intentional approach to …