Courses about OA

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• This is a list of courses about OA, in whole or part.

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Title	Offered by	Language	Year	Notes
Introduction to Open Education	David Wiley, University of Texas	English	2007 -	-
Open Access Syllabus	Heather Morrison, University of British Columbia	English	2007	Course not offered anymore.
Issues in Scholarly Communication	Heather Morrison, University of British Columbia	English	2008	Course not offered anymore.
FIS2309 - Design of Electronic Text	Joan Cherry, University of Toronto	English	2008	Course not offered anymore. Scroll: Essays in the Design of Electronic Text (student journal).
Seminar in Information Science: The Open Movement and Libraries	Ellyssa Kroski, San Jose State University	English	2008	Course not offered anymore.
LIS 457 Digital Publishing	Robin Peek, Simmons College	English	2006 -	Course not offered anymore.
LIS 421 Social Informatics	Robin Peek, Simmons College	English	2006 -	Course not offered anymore.
Open Source, Open Access, Open Education	Michael Peters, University of Illinois	English	2009	Course not offered anymore.
Social Media & Open Education	Alec Couros, University of Regina	English	2009	Course not offered anymore.
Open Access: logiche e strumenti	Elena Giglia, University of Torino	Italian	2010	Course not offered anymore.
Open Access for Earth Scientists 2010	Ivo Grigorov, DTU	English	2010	One day webinar training will full support of European Institute for Marine Studies, UBO, France. Course not offered anymore.
Otwarta nauka (open science)	Bożena Bednarek-Michalska and Karolina Grodecka, Poland	Polish	2011	Online course full support of the Nicolaus Copernicus University Library, the AGH University of Science and Technology, and EIFL. Course not offered anymore.
Open Science: An Introduction	Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU)	English	2013	Course not offered anymore.
Intro to Openness in Education	David Wiley, Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU)	English	2014	Course not offered anymore.
Open Research	Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU)	English	2014	Includes Open Access Publishing module. Course not offered anymore.
Introduction to Open Access	UNESCO	English	2015 -	81-page curriculum designed and written by experts from India, South Africa, etc.
Open in Action: The case for Open Access Publishing	University of Adelaide	English	2016	In-person workshop. Course not offered anymore.
Curs Open Data Ambiental	Col·legi d’Ambientòlegs de Catalunya (COAMB)	Catalan	2017	In-person course in Barcelona, Spain, about open data. Course not offered anymore.
Knowledge and Communication for Development	Leslie Chan, University of Toronto	English	2008 -	Recently taught in 2018.
MANTRA: Research Data Management Training	DCC, University of Edinburgh	English	2010 -	"Free online course for those who manage digital data as part of their research project."
Online-Kurs zu Open Educational Resources (COER18)	Sandra Schön, Martin Ebner	German	2017	Offered in 2017 and 2018. Based on COER13 2013. Hosted by iMooX platform; maintained by Graz University of Technology, Austria. "All iMooX learning materials are not only free of charge, but can also be reused."
Open Knowledge in Higher Education	University of Manchester	English	2015 -	Exploring themes of open knowledge in higher education.
Open Data Media	CFI, part of France Médias Monde	French and English	2016 -	Goal: "To get civil society more involved in debates on public policies by better harnessing open data" in Francophone Africa and elsewhere. Aimed at journalists.
ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture)	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with Research4Life	English	2017 -	Goal: "Online course for low-income countries to enhance the visibility, accessibility and usability of agricultural data and science". Aimed at researchers, librarians, students
Building an Open and Information-rich Research Institution	Sarah Shreeves, Danny Kingsley	English	2017 -	Syllabus and bibliography. Part of FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute, San Diego, USA, 2017.
Making an Impact with Open Science	Michiel de Jong, TU Delft	English	2017 -	Produced as part of the OpenCourseWare online course.
Navigating the Sea of Scholarly Communications	Australian National University Library	English	2017 -	-
Open Data Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition	GODAN Action network (Global Open Data for Agriculture & Nutrition)	English	2017 -	Curriculum. Goal: "Online course aims to strengthen the capacity of data producers and data consumers to manage and use open data."
Open Science MOOC	Jon Tenant	English	2017	Developed by volunteers.
Best Practices for Biomedical Research Data Management	Elaine Martin and Julie Goldman	English	2018	Hosted online by Canvas Network, of Instructure, based in Utah, USA.
Emerging Learning Technologies	Curt Bonk	English	2018	In-person course offered by Indiana University, School of Education. Highly detailed syllabus (known as "The Famed 'Monster Syllabus').
Master Class on Open Data Awareness Raising	Laura Meggiolaro and Lissette Mey. Land Portal, Netherlands	English	2018	Held at India Land and Development Conference (ILDC), New Delhi.
Open Reproducible Science (Psychology 9560B)	Lorne Campbell	English	2018	Online syllabus. In-person course taught at University of Western Ontario, Canada.
Education, Licensing and Copyright in the Digital World	Wayne Makintosh and Jim Taylor.	English	2018	Hosted by OERu, New Zealand.
Transparent and Open Social Science Research	Ted Miguel and Fernando Hoces	English	2018	Developed by Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS), University of California.
Designing successful Open Access and Open Data Policies: Introductory	Created by the FOSTER and PASTEUR4OA projects.	English	2016	Wikidata Q55452210
Online Course on Open Science	National Library of Finland	Finnish	2018	Coordinated by the National Library of Finland.
Use Open Data in Teaching	Hosted by FOSTER	English	2019	-
Open Science Basics for KU Leuven Library Staff	Hosted by FOSTER	English	2019	-
Assessing the FAIRness of Data	Hosted by FOSTER	English	2019	This course was developed as part of the Use (Open Research) Data in Teaching project (UDIT) which was initiated in 2017. The partner institutions in the project are Radboud University, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, and University of Amsterdam/Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Part of the FOSTER Open Science Toolkit
Open Access to Publications in Horizon2020	Hosted by FOSTER	English	2016	-
What is Open Science?	Created by the FOSTER project.	English, Spanish	2019	Part of the FOSTER Open Science Toolkit.
Best Practice in Open Research	Created by the FOSTER project.	English, Spanish	2019	Part of the FOSTER Open Science Toolkit.
Managing and Sharing Research Data	Created by the FOSTER project.	English, Spanish	2019	Part of the FOSTER Open Science Toolkit.
Open Source Software and Workflows	Created by the FOSTER project.	English, Spanish	2019	Part of the FOSTER Open Science Toolkit.
Data Protection and Ethics	Created by the FOSTER project.	English, Spanish	2019	Part of the FOSTER Open Science Toolkit.
Open Licensing	Created by the FOSTER project.	English, Spanish	2019	Part of the FOSTER Open Science Toolkit.
Open Access Publishing	Created by the FOSTER project.	English, Spanish	2019	Part of the FOSTER Open Science Toolkit.
Sharing Preprints	Created by the FOSTER project.	English, Spanish	2019	Part of the FOSTER Open Science Toolkit.
Open Peer Review	Created by the FOSTER project.	English, Spanish	2019	Part of the FOSTER Open Science Toolkit.
Use Open Data in Teaching	Created by the FOSTER project and Joy Davidson.	English	2019	Part of the FOSTER Open Science Toolkit.
Open Science and Innovation	Created by the FOSTER project.	English	2019	Part of the FOSTER Open Science Toolkit.
The Horizon 2020 Open Research Data Pilot	Created by the FOSTER project.	English	2016	-
Open Science at the Core of Libraries	Created by the FOSTER project.	English	2016	-
Open Access to Publications in Horizon 2020	Created by the FOSTER project.	English	2018	-
Introduction to Open Science	Created by the FOSTER project.	English	2016	-
Designing Successful Open Access and Open Data Policies: Intermediate	Created by the FOSTER and PASTEUR4OA projects.	English	2016	-
Integrating Open Science in Information Literacy Education	Created by the FOSTER project.	English	2016	-
Planos de Gestão de Dados no Horizonte 2020	Created by the FOSTER project.	Portuguese	2018	-
Research Data Management Librarian Academy	Created by several university libraries and Elsevier.	English	2019	-

Current courses about OA

Last updated: July 2019.

• Knowledge and Communication for Development (IDSB10H3).
  • Online materials for in-person course at University of Toronto.
  • Instructor: Leslie Chan.
  • Began in 2008; recently taught in 2018.

• MANTRA: Research Data Management Training.
  • "Free online course for those who manage digital data as part of their research project."
  • Maintained by University of Edinburgh, UK.
  • Began in 2010.

• Online-Kurs zu Open Educational Resources (COER18).
  • Goal: overview of OER theory and practice. Aimed at faculty, producers.
  • In German.
  • Instructors: Sandra Schön, Martin Ebner.
  • Offered in 2017, 2018. Based on COER13, 2013.
  • Hosted by iMooX platform; maintained by Graz University of Technology, Austria. "All iMooX learning materials are not only free of charge, but can also be reused."

• Open Knowledge in Higher Education.
  • "Exploring themes of open knowledge in higher education. An open course module offered through Medium by the University of Manchester," UK.
  • Began in 2015.

• OpenData Media.
  • Goal: "To get civil society more involved in debates on public policies by better harnessing open data" in Francophone Africa and elsewhere. Aimed at journalists.
  • In French, English.
  • Organized by CFI, part of France Médias Monde.
  • Began in 2016.

• ASIRA (Access to Scientific Information Resources in Agriculture).
  • Goal: "enhance the visibility, accessibility and usability of agricultural data and science."
  • Aimed at researchers, librarians, students.
  • "Online course for low-income countries delivered by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with Research4Life."
  • Began in 2017.

• Building an Open and Information-rich Research Institution.
  • Instructors: Sarah Shreeves, Danny Kingsley.
  • Syllabus and bibliography.
  • Part of FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute, San Diego, USA, 2017.

• Making an Impact with Open Science.
  • Coordinator: Michiel de Jong.
  • Produced by TU Delft, Netherlands, as part of its online OpenCourseWare.
  • Began in [2017?]

• Navigating the Sea of Scholarly Communications.
  • Produced by Australian National University Library.
  • Includes OA segment.
  • Launched in 2017.

• Open Data Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition.
  • "Online course aims to strengthen the capacity of data producers and data consumers to manage and use open data."
  • Curriculum, 2018.
  • Developed by GODAN Action network (Global Open Data for Agriculture & Nutrition), based in UK.
  • Began in 2017.

• Open Science MOOC.
  • Includes "10 core modules" "designed to help equip students and researchers with the skills they need to excel in a modern research environment."
  • Founded by Jon Tennant of the UK.
  • Development by volunteers began in 2017.

• Best Practices for Biomedical Research Data Management.
  • Instructors: Elaine Martin, Julie Goldman.
  • Organized by Harvard Medical School.
  • Hosted online by Canvas Network, of Instructure, based in Utah, USA.
  • Launched in [2018?].

• Emerging Learning Technologies.
  • Highly detailed online 2018 syllabus (known as "The Famed 'Monster Syllabus'").
  • Instructor: Curt Bonk.
  • In-person course offered by Indiana University, School of Education.

• Master Class on Open Data Awareness Raising.
  • Instructors: Laura Meggiolaro, Lissette Mey of Land Portal organization, based in the Netherlands.
  • Held at India Land and Development Conference (ILDC), New Delhi, 2018.

• Open and Reproducible Science (Psychology 9560B).
  • Online syllabus for in-person course at University of Western Ontario, Canada.
  • Created by Lorne Campbell.
  • Published in 2018.

• Open Education, Licensing and Copyright in the Digital World.
  • Developed by Wayne Makintosh, Jim Taylor.
  • Hosted online by OERu, based in New Zealand.
  • Began in 2018.

• Open Science Training Courses.
  • Group of online courses addressing "some of the most common questions you might have about putting open science into practice. Each course takes about 1-2 hours to work."
  • Includes: Best Practices; Data Protection and Ethics; Managing and Sharing Research Data; Open Access Publishing; Open Peer Review (OPR); Open Science and Innovation; OSS and Workflows; Sharing Preprints; What is Open Science?
  • Produced by European project FOSTER.
  • Courses available in English and Spanish.
  • Began in 2018.

• Transparent and Open Social Science Research.
  • "Explore the drivers of the social science credibility crisis and learn tools to make your own work more open and reproducible."
  • Instructors: Ted Miguel, Fernando Hoces.
  • Developed by Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS), University of California.
  • Hosted online by FutureLearn of the Open University, UK.
  • Began in 2018?

• Designing Successful Open Access and Open Data Policies: Introductory.
  • Overview from PASTEUR4OA.
  • Online course hosted by FOSTER (fosteropenscience.eu).
  • Wikidata: Q55452210.
  • Began in [2010s?]

• Online Course on Open Science (click "Kirjaudu vierailijana" to login as guest)
  • In Finnish.
  • Coordinated by National Library of Finland.
  • Began in [2010s?]

• Open Science at the Core of Libraries.
  • Online course for librarians.
  • Hosted by FOSTER (fosteropenscience.eu).
  • Began in 2013.