19.02.2025
Formations, Le point sur, Ressources scientifiques et techniques
Building skills on open science: creation of a MOOC
« PhD students are a key audience that needs to be reached as a matter of priority if we are to transform research practices and make open science a default practice. With more than 4000 PhD students each year, the Sorbonne University Alliance, an alliance of 6 higher education institutions, decided in 2019 to produce a MOOC dedicated to open science. Sorbonne University and the National Museum of Natural History’s libraries join forces to conduct this project, resulting in a MOOC launched in March 2022. The main goals were to train on a large scale and encourage the attendees to reflect on their practices and the state of research. The MOOC comes within the scope of the French National Plan for Open Science, which aims to develop open science skills within doctoral schools. It is also the result of the SU Alliance’s strong commitment to open science. This article analyses the choices that were made concerning pedagogy, methodology and openness. Moreover, it shares the first results as well as the future of the project. (…) »
