Courses about OA

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  • This is a list of courses about OA, in whole or part.
  • The table can be sorted by course title, the person, organisation or project that offers the course, language, year or notes.
  • New entries should be annotated with the dates they were taught if known.

Title Offered by Language Year Notes
Introduction to Open Education (perma.cc) 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 (perma.cc) 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 (perma.cc) 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 (perma.cc) Elena Giglia, University of Torino Italian 2010 Course not offered anymore.
Open Access for Earth Scientists 2010 (perma.cc) 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 (perma.cc) Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) English 2013 Course not offered anymore.
Intro to Openness in Education (perma.cc) David Wiley, Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) English 2014 Course not offered anymore.
Open Research (perma.cc) 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 (perma.cc) University of Adelaide English 2016 In-person workshop. Course not offered anymore.
Curs Open Data Ambiental (perma.cc) 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.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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?