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Turtle and Hare Workshops: Exchanging software skills from beginner to experienced

Scientific findings often hinge on a single, opaque set of analytical decisions, obscuring how alternative approaches might affect results. The Journal of Robustness Reports (JRR) directly tackles this issue. As a new Diamond Open Access journal, it …

What's New in Neuro

This project is a neuroscience-focused podcast that highlights the diverse and innovative research currently taking place across the Netherlands. By featuring conversations with researchers from various backgrounds and career stages (ranging from …

A general course outline for an overview of Open Science

To help ease the process with content development, we provide here a course outline in the form of a syllabus (i.e. module description) for a general open science course that overviews the most pertinent topics important to early career researchers …

UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science

This page contains an open syllabus, assignments--including interactive multiple choice self-check questions--and rubrics for a semester-long course teaching open science through the lens of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. The syllabus and …

Critical Metascience Articles

Metascience is the science of science. Critical metascience takes a step back to question some common assumptions, approaches, problems, and solutions in metascience. Hence, it has also been described as meta-meta-science! The following is a …

Game-Based Approaches for Research Skills Training and Researcher Development: A Survey of Attitudes and Acceptance in Higher Education

Research skills training is both crucial and ubiquitous in Higher Education (HE), however there are a range of pedagogical challenges in effectively delivering research capabilities and learning outcomes. The move towards constructivism, including …

Game-based approaches in the teaching and learning of critical and research skills in Higher Education. [PhD thesis]

Game-Based Learning (GBL) is the integration of gaming elements into learning experiences. There are research gaps in GBL for adult learning, in particular for higher order learning outcomes within Higher Education. This leads to a lack of …

FORRT’s 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.

Oxford|Berlin Summer School on Open Research 2021

Welcome to the 4th edition of the Oxford|Berlin summer school on Open Research taking place online on 20 - 23 September 2021! It is a free course for early career researchers (post graduate students (MSc, PhD, and postdocs) who would like to learn …

Symposium "Qualitative Open Science: Challenges, Opportunities, Tensions, and Synergies"

The Qualitative Open Science symposium, organised on the 28th of March 2025 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam featured plenaries and workshops dedicated to a wide range of qualitative OS topics with the aim of facilitating knowledge exchange and …
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