Research Data Management e-course - OpenAIRE Blog

The University of Tartu Library has been teaching the basics of research data management since 2015. About 400 doctoral students have passed the elective PhD course Introduction to Information Research containing a RDM module.

The first part of the course is universal and it is suitable for doctoral students of all disciplines who work with digital data. Up to now, 87 students have passed the course. PhD students highly value the opportunity to learn and complete  assignments at the place and time most suitable for them. Another important aspect for students is individual feedback for their work. They work with their data and get comments about their DMP and metadata analysis from their tutors during the course. All the work done on the course is also part of doctoral students' daily work, so they get credit points for completing the course and the result – DMP -- can right away be used in planning and managing their research.