Beth Montague-Hellen and Holly Ranger 2019. Teaching Practical Research Data Management Skills through Online Training and Data Management Plan Creation. Center for Open Science. https://doi.org/10.31229/osf.io/vft39
| Title | Teaching Practical Research Data Management Skills through Online Training and Data Management Plan Creation |
|---|---|
| Authors | Beth Montague-Hellen and Holly Ranger |
| Description | Research Data Management is growing in importance as a field as the amount of data which researchers must manage increases. It is important to ensure that postgraduate researchers are trained through engaging courses which practically prepare them to fulfil the data management requirements of funders and Universities, and to carry out their research in a transparent and effective manner. Description of program: We present a case study of the development and delivery of a new Research Data Management (RDM) online course for postgraduates and early career researchers. The course implements pedagogical theory and a reverse design paradigm in the development of library training provision enabling the creation of a course vastly more relevant to academic research practice than our previous offering. The course uses a simplified Data Management Plan to introduce students to Research Data Management Concepts, and by asking them to apply this knowledge, lifts the course from one which simply asks students to remember knowledge to one which shows them how to apply this knowledge in a way that is applicable to their own research. The course has been evaluated for effectiveness and student engagement at 3 months. Next steps: Although some analysis of the effectiveness of the new course has been undertaken, the course will continue to be evaluated. Although the course was developed for PGRs it has been popular with ECRs and Professional support staff and we will investigate how we can further meet the needs of these groups. The platform used will allow for the topics most often accessed to be identified and the course, and the University’s training provision will be adjusted based on this evidence. We hope that other institutions will be able to learn from our experience and implement similar courses. |
| Year | 2019 |
| Output media | LISSA: LIS Scholarship Archive Works |
| Publisher | Center for Open Science |
| Publication dates | |
| Published | 13 Sep 2019 |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.31229/osf.io/vft39 |
| File | License CC BY 4.0 |
| Web address (URL) | http://dx.doi.org/10.31229/osf.io/vft39 |
| Journal | LISSA: LIS Scholarship Archive Works |