Open Education Relay 2: Open Science Teaching
By: Marie-Louise Goudeau and Marc van Mil
In 2025, the global takes place from the 3rd until the 7th of March. During this week, you'll read a series of 5 daily posts, showcasing the wide range of Open Education aspects and initiatives at UU, and how you can contribute!
Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ (UU) focuses strongly on Open Science and Open Education in her new educational model. Transparency, collaboration, and reusing knowledge are fundamental key themes herein. Open Science is not just a way to conduct research, but also a mindset student should learn to make science more inclusive, equal, and effective. Thus, Open Science needs to find its way into the UU curricula on all levels of education: bachelor, master, PhD, and Continuous Education. But what does Open Science Teaching entail? And how to ensure students develop these skills?
Open Science Teaching (OST) translates the core values of Open Science to education. It's not just about learning techniques, but primarily about developing an Open Science mind and skillset. Students learn why Open Science is of importance and how to apply this to their own academic and professional setting.
According to the e, OST helps student articulate why and how to:
Increase scientific collaborations and sharing of information for the benefits of science and society;
Make scientific knowledge openly available, accessible, and reusable for everyone;
Open the processes of scientific knowledge creation, evaluation, and communication to societal actors beyond the traditional scientific community.
These learning goals are widely applicable and need to be translated differently to each academic discipline. For example, in Humanities reproducibility is defined differently than in experimental physics. Thus, to embed Open Science effectively in education, flexible and transferrable teaching materials are needed, which educators can modify to their discipline and educational level.
The USO project ‘Transferrable Pedagogies for an Open Science Mindset and Skillset’ aims exactly to facilitate this: educators from all UU faculties work together to develop transferrable teaching materials. A framework has been created to help recognize what elements are essential for OST. This framework forms the basis of a collection of open educational resources on edusources. With the help of the ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ library, the community of teachers builds a ‘growing collection’ of Open Science teaching material. The first step is to make accessible existing educational resources that are easy to reuse and translate to different academic disciplines, levels, and contexts.
Do you want to be updated? Soon you'll find the first materials openly shared in . You can also contact project lead Marc van Mil and community manager Marie-Louise Goudeau. Together, we make Open Science normative in education!
Want to learn more about Open Education? Read the 3rd Chapter of ‘’ by Henk Kummeling, Manon Kluijtmans and Frank Miedema. Or join the , March 18th!