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 source software is often seen as a path to reproducibility in computational science. In practice there are many obstacles, even when the code is freely available, but open source policies should at least lead to better quality code.
Scientific research communities pursue dual imperatives in implementing strategies to share their data. These communities attempt to maximize the accessibility of biomedical data for downstream research use, in furtherance of open science objectives. …
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 …
I’ve started a Google Doc to share open education or social science data, research, evaluation, and policy positions. Feel free to add to it and help keep it updated and growing. Let’s support each other and build this resource together during these …
Background
Open educational resources (OER) are educational materials licensed openly by authors, permitting usage, redistribution, and in some instances, modification. OER platforms thereby serve as a medium for distributing and advancing teaching …
The field of microscopy has been empowering humankind for many centuries by enabling the observation of objects that are otherwise too small to detect for the naked human eye. Microscopy techniques can be loosely divided into three main branches, …
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 …