14. Promoting Open Science and Research in Higher Education: A Finnish Perspective

Väänänen, Ilkka; Peltonen, Kati

doi:10.11647/obp.0103.14

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“…With regard to open pedagogies, research discusses concepts of research-oriented learning, with forms of openness referring levels of student autonomy (Brew, 2013;Heck & Heudorfer, 2018). In this study, our understanding of practices refers to activities, behaviours and attitudes of teachers that contribute to more or less open learning and teaching environments, similar to prior discussions (Stagg, 2014;Väänänen & Peltonen, 2016), with the aim to get first insights into teachers' practices and their levels of openness.…”

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“…Open practices in science and in education seem to share some commonalities. Väänänen and Peltonen (2016), for example, draw a connection between the concept of openness in research, learning and teaching in higher education. In higher education where research and learning meets, an open environment including access to research and OER, fosters open science.…”

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“…In higher education where research and learning meets, an open environment including access to research and OER, fosters open science. Moreover, the authors state that fostering competitive research "while preserving accessible and shared materials and knowledge is essential to OER" (Väänänen & Peltonen, 2016) Moreover, those aspects could also be more broadly related to research and education practices.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Open science practices in higher education: Discussion of survey results from research and teaching staff in Germany

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Peters

Mazarakis

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Aspects of open science and scholarly practices are often discussed with a focus on research and research dissemination processes. There is currently less discussion on open science and its influence on learning and teaching in higher education, and reversely. This paper discusses open science in relation to educational practices and resources and reports on a study to investigate current educational practices from the perspective of open science. We argue that offering students opportunities via open educational practices raises their awareness of future open science goals and teaches them the skills needed to reach those goals. We present online survey results from 210 participants with teaching responsibility at higher education institutions in Germany. While some of them try to establish more open learning and teaching settings, most respondents apply rather traditional ways of learning and teaching. 60% do not use open educational resources – many have not even heard of them – nor do they make their courses open for an online audience. Participants’ priority lies in resource accuracy and quality and we still see a gap between the benefit of open practices and their practicability and applicability. The paper contributes to the general discussion of open practices in higher education by looking at open science practices and their adaptation to the learning and teaching environment. It formulates recommendations for improvements of open practice support and infrastructure.

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“…It has created an avenue not only for researchers to publicize their studies, but to also collaborate, where knowledge can be shared so that everybody in the society can contribute to the scientific advancements through more effective use of research outputs. The open science movement was not only to enhance the educational sector but as the name implied, it would be a universal collaboration of research professionals all around the world trying to solve multiple challenges in many areas like food, water, energy, and health because these are universal challenges that can only be solved through international collaborations (Väänänen and Peltonen 2016).…”

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Promoting Open Science With Institutional Repositories in the Malaysian Comprehensive Public Universities

Ahmed,

Othman

2021

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This study examines the level of openness of the intellectual collections in the Malaysian Public Universities Repositories, towards promoting the practice of open science in the institutions. Open science stands for a new system in which researchers all over the globe can come together and contribute to all research processes and at the end of the processes allows for the sharing of the scientific findings that are beneficial to all humanities freely. Specifically, the main objectives of the study were to identify, to what extent were the intellectual contents in the Institutional Repositories (IR) of the comprehensive universities in Malaysia open to the general public and how the librarians and researchers from these universities promote open science through the IR. Mixed-method research was used to gather information from the respondents. A total of 255 responses were received for the quantitative method and a total of 6 librarians were interviewed for the qualitative method to complement the other and triangulation was done to aggregate the major findings, which shows that the public universities in Malaysia were involved in OS through their institutional repositories. However, only 10% to 30% of the contents in these IR were available to the general public, while some institutions only provide the abstract to the public. Some recommended factors identified by the stakeholders to fully implement the OS practices were: the need for more enlightenment on the system, more of the modern digital facilities or infrastructure such as high-speed internet, and well-managed and secured databases.

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Utilizing open educational practices to support sustainable higher education in the United Arab Emirates

Halder Adhya,

Al Bastaki,

Suleymanova

et al. 2024

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PurposeThe COVID-19 pandemic has compelled higher education institutions (HEI) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and globally to shift to a new pedagogy that is sustainable and resilient to crises and disruptions. It necessitated the integration of technologies as part of pedagogical innovation and modification of higher education practices – advancing toward a more holistic integration of physical and digital tools and methods to enable more flexible, creative, collaborative and participatory learning. In terms of pedagogy, an open approach to learning is essential, combining in-person teaching with technological tools and online learning.Design/methodology/approachThis paper examines theoretical and empirical literature to define the potential benefits of utilizing open educational practices (OEP) in higher education, including better access, furthering equity and enhancing teaching, learning and assessment.FindingsIt proposes a comprehensive framework built on a continuum of open pedagogy (OP) that comprises “Emphasis”, “Essentials” and “Evolution”. Based on this framework, a set of recommendations for using OEP for successful knowledge building is provided.Originality/valueThe research determined the significance of increased OEP involvement for sustainable learning possibilities and the UAE’s initiatives in developing educators to support innovative pedagogies and technology-enabled teaching-learning standards. The study suggests placing more emphasis on faculty and student scaffolding while using OP for better learning experiences and outcomes, as well as more institutional support and the need for policy development to transform the UAE into a global hub for sustainable education.

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14. Promoting Open Science and Research in Higher Education: A Finnish Perspective

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Open science practices in higher education: Discussion of survey results from research and teaching staff in Germany

Open science practices in higher education: Discussion of survey results from research and teaching staff in Germany

Promoting Open Science With Institutional Repositories in the Malaysian Comprehensive Public Universities

Utilizing open educational practices to support sustainable higher education in the United Arab Emirates

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