P2PU | Open Research

"What does it mean to research in the open? Why should I make my research open? How do I research openly? Join us for a 4-week exploration of researching in the open! This course is aimed at any researcher who wants to conduct an element of their research openly. Interested in how to ethically and openly share your findings so that others can reuse or develop your work? Curious about which open research methods you could use? Or just wanting to find out more about what open research entails? This course will be led by the OER Research Hub project team. We are a project focused on researching the impact of openness in education. You can find out more about us in the section About Your Course Facilitators below. We’ll be using our experiences of working on an open project to demonstrate a set of solutions to the issues that openness raises. In particular, we’ll be showing you how openness can benefit your research by increasing the exposure your work has. Whilst many challenges and issues apply to all aspects of research (for example choosing an appropriate methodology) open research brings a range of different opportunities and challenges; it’s these that we are specifically interested in exploring in this course. We look at what ethical issues open researchers might encounter and what openness means in practice. What can openness add to the research process? Whether you’re interested in finding out about a different aspect of open, or a researcher looking to explore what it means to research openly, come join us in sharing experiences and reflecting on your own practice ..."