Prom-Open: Promoting Open Science in an on-line

e-learning environment

Alexandre López-Borrull Estudis Ciències Informació I la Comunicació

KIMO Research GroupUniversitat Oberta de Catalunya. Barcelona. Catalonia

alopezbo@uoc.edu @alexandrelopez

Edulearn 2014 6th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies 7-9 July 2014

Table of Contents

• Introduction to Open Science

•Approaches to Open Science

•Promoting Open Science in an on-line e-learning university: UOC

•References

Information and Communication Technologies

(ICT) has strongly changed the way we behave in our

day-to-day

After Edition, Music and Audiovisual industry,

Universities have began their transition to ICT

ICTs have been the main driving force for two main

changes:

- Collaboration- Open Movement

Collaborative vision

• On the shoulder of giants

• Resources Management and Optimization

• More ambition on Challenges

Figure 1. Honeycomb

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bienenkoen

igin_43a.jpg

Open Vision

Figure 2. Logo Open Access PLOS http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Open_Access_PLoS.svg

Open Science

An Open vision (and free) of contents and processes in every step of Scientific Research

Strongly dependent on ICT and their evolution

• Open Notebook

• Open Source Software

• Open Peer Review

• Open Acces

• Open DataFigure 3. Logo Open Science

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Open_Scienc

e_Logo.jpg

Are Open and Collaborative synonyms?

Open

Collaborati

ve

CERN UHP

Medicine

So, a Vision Open is...

•...an ideology?

•...a methodology?

•...an attitude?

As an attitude, Open Vision...

•...should be spread

•...should be exemplary

•...should be promoted in university teaching

Prom-Open, How can the Open Vision be

promoted in teaching?

Figure 4. Open vision in Research

Promoting Open Science in an on-line e-learning

university: UOC •UOC began its activities

in the academic year 1995/1996

•> 53,242 students

•> 46,682 graduates

•> 7,400 virtual classrooms

•> 3,666 teaching staffFigure 5. UOC Venue

http://cv.uoc.edu/UOC/a/comunicat/2010

1/estudiants-universitat/estudiants-

universitat.html

Open Educational Resources: Contents in

Subjects

•OpenCourseWare

•Wiki

Figure 6. OCW UOC

http://ocw.uoc.edu/frontal_ocw_home_v2

.gif

Resources in the Virtual Classroom:

Complementary Reading

•Should it be Open?

•Virtual Library

Figura 6. UOC Digital Library

http://ocw.uoc.edu/frontal_ocw_home_v2

.gif

Software

•Are there alternative and Open Source Software available?

•Are they suitable and manageable for the UOC classroom?

Figura 7. Logo Open Source Initiative.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

File:Opensource.svg

Collaborative and Open in the virtual classroom

•Collective feedback

•Teamworks

•Should works from students be spread in the repository?

Figura 10. Logo Wikispaces

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikispaces-

logo.png

Conclusions and trends

• The Open Movement has shown that it was not an alternative to quality

• It is difficult to live in a whole Open day-to-day

• Promotion of the Open Movement, mainly Open Science, should include teaching and students

• Open Science should be considered as a skill in universitary degrees

References

• Leydesdorff, L.; Wagner, C.S. (2008). International Collaboration in science and the formation of a core group. Journal of Informetrics, vol. 2, num. 4, p. 317-325.

• Harnad, Stevan (2005). “Fast-forward on the green road to Open Access: the case against mixing up green and gold”. Ariadne, 42. <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue42/harnad/

• López-Borrull, A.; Oppenheim, C. (2004). "Legal aspects of the web". Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. Vol. 38, pp. 483-548.

• Smart. J., Scott, M., McCarthy, J. B., et al (2012). Big Science and Big Administration. Confronting the Governance, Financial and Legal Challenges of FuturICT. Eur.Phys.J.SpecialTopics, num. 214, p. 635-666.

Thanks!!!Moltes gràcies!!!

Alexandre López-Borrull Estudis Ciències Informació I la Comunicació

KIMO Research GroupUniversitat Oberta de Catalunya

alopezbo@uoc.edu @alexandrelopez