Embedding open and reproducible science into teaching: A bank of lesson plans and resources.

Abstract

Recently, there has been a growing emphasis on embedding open and reproducible approaches into research. One essential step in accomplishing this larger goal is to embed such practices into undergraduate and postgraduate research training. However, this often requires substantial time and resources to implement. Also, while many pedagogical resources are regularly developed for this purpose, they are not often openly and actively shared with the wider community. The creation and public sharing of open educational resources is useful for educators who wish to embed open scholarship and reproducibility into their teaching and learning. In this article, we describe and openly share a bank of teaching resources and lesson plans on the broad topics of open scholarship, open science, replication, and reproducibility that can be integrated into taught courses, to support educators and instructors. These resources were created as part of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) hackathon at the 2021 Annual Conference, and we detail this collaborative process in the article. By sharing these open pedagogical resources, we aim to reduce the labour required to develop and implement open scholarship content to further the open scholarship and open educational materials movement.

Teaching Open and Reproducible Scholarship: A Critical Review of the Evidence Base for Current Pedagogical Methods and their Outcomes

“…Specifically, there is an urgent, ongoing need to embed these principles into teaching, learning, training, and pedagogy (Azevedo et al, 2022). Indeed, if open and reproducible scholarship is not explicitly embedded into undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and learning, students will not be well equipped with the knowledge and skills to continue advancing the goals of open and reproducible scholarship and to contribute to sustained culture change (Azevedo et al, 2019;Pownall et al, 2021a). It is, therefore, crucial that the pedagogical aspect of open and reproducible scholarship is at the centre of discussions.…”

Establishing open science research priorities in health psychology: a research prioritisation Delphi exercise

“…For example, an evaluation of the ten highest ranking pain journals found low engagement with research transparency and openness standards (Cashin et al, 2021). Initiatives to drive researcher behaviour have been developed by Health Psychologists themselves, such as the programme 'Principles and Practices of Open Research: Teaching, Research, Impact, and Learning (PaPOR TRaIL)' (Egan et al, 2020), amongst wider initiatives to build lesson banks for Open Science in wider psychology (Pownall et al, 2021) and resources across-disciplines such as with the collaborative Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT) (Azevedo et al, 2022;Parsons et al, 2022). However, the evidence base of intervention effectiveness for such interventions is still currently lacking.…”

Development of the Brief Open Research Survey (BORS) to measure awareness and uptake of Open Research practices

“…Initiatives exist and have been recommended globally to increase the uptake of Open Research behaviours (G7 Open Science Working Group, 2021; NASA Science, 2022;UNESCO, 2021). Educational initiatives include embedding Open Research training into undergraduate and postgraduate teaching (Azevedo et al, 2022;Egan et al, 2020; Student Initiative for Open Science, 2022) and providing banks of educational resources to facilitate this (Pownall, Azevedo, et al, 2021). Incentive initiatives include journal badges issued to papers with Preregistration, Open Data and Open Materials (Kidwell et al, 2016;Rowhani-Farid & Barnett, 2018), awards for Open Research practice (Merrett et al, 2021), and funder partnerships for Registered Reports Clark et al, 2021).…”