by Jonathan Grunert
Open Science is a collaborative movement that works to share research activities with few barriers, so researchers in relevant fields can evaluate, replicate, adapt, reuse, and modify the work. One of the principles of Open Science is Open Educational Resources, in large part due to OER giving access to cutting-edge scientific research.
The COVID-19 crisis has underscored the importance of openness in research and education as it has highlighted an ecosystem of global research networks. OER benefit from this, too, largely as concerns the coordination of research and education. The research conducted within an Open Science framework can become an OER, engaging students with the researchers without navigating journals and conferences that existed in physical spaces. In the digital world, OER are essential pieces to the coordination of COVID-19 documentation, demonstrating the complementary efforts of COVID-19 research to undergraduate students, so they may see the rebuilding of scientific research.
Adapted from Dylan Roskams-Edris, “The Digital Migration: Lessons about Open Science Arising from the COVID-19 Crisis” https://blogs.plos.org/plos/2020/04/the-digital-migration-lessons-about-open-science-arising-from-the-covid19-crisis/ CCBY Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0