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Designing and Delivering
an International MOOC
on Research Data
Management & Sharing
DR. HELEN R. TIBBO
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
ROBIN RICE
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
Thank you funders!
CRADLE MOOC partially funded by:
Institute of Museum and Library Services
School of Information and Library Science,
UNC-Chapel Hill
Odum Institute for Research in Social Science,
UNC-Chapel Hill
University of Edinburgh Information Services
…data scientists [including] librarians [and]
archivists… have the responsibility to design
and implement education and outreach
programs that make the benefits of data
collections and digital information science
available to the broadest possible range of
researchers, educators, students, and the
general public.
– National Science Board, 2005
Curating Research Assets and Data Using Lifecycle
Education
CRADLE http://cradle.web.unc.edu/ is a collaborative effort
of the School of Information and Library Science
http://sils.unc.edu, the H. W. Odum Institute for Research in
Social Science http://www.odum.unc.edu, and the
University Libraries http://library.unc.edu/ at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The CRADLE project is sponsored by the Institute of Museum
and Library Services (IMLS), under award #RE-06-13-0052-13.
CRADLE will run 2013-2017.
CRADLE
CRADLE’s Objectives
Build a network among data curation faculty,
researchers, students, and practitioners;
Create and disseminate model online and face-
to-face educational tools and online courses;
Provide the videos and online guides as self-
paced courses made accessible online through
“Free University” platforms (MOOCs), thus
extending CRADLE’s impact to professionals and
researchers around the world.
CRADLE & MOOC Audiences
Librarians and archivists managing research data and
working with research data creators;
Information and library science master’s and doctoral
students who will work as managers of research data or
conduct data curation research and provide education
to future data managers, and
Researchers in the social, health, and physical sciences
who need to write data management plans and more
generally, learn how to manage their own data before it
reaches a repository.
MOOC’s contents
Understanding Research Data
Data Management Planning
Working with Data
Sharing Data
Archiving Data
MANTRA MOOC Objectives
University of Edinburgh heavily involved in MOOCs & online education (support & encouragement)
First skills-based MOOC from UoE
Certificate of completion a common request by MANTRA learners
MANTRA as a MOOC? Or MANTRA & a MOOC?
Division of labour to complete sooner!
Great mix of cross-Atlantic perspectives & advice
Focus equally on researchers + librarians
Sources of data
Welcome survey (self-select sample via
Qualtrix as of 30 June)
Coursera dashboard (as of 27 June)
End of course survey (self-select sample
via Qualtrix as of 30 June)
Current role in RDM
Expectations for involvement in the
course
Expectations from the course
Reviews
It's a great course!! Great course! very good course! (3 reviews)
This is a an important topic and more scientists (and students in the sciences) should
learn about this but the quizzes are not great as a learning aid and my motivation is running through lows.
I found this to be an excellent course. I have been teaching myself about data
management for about the last two years as part of my work. I have read many
documents, taken one course and have been to a couple of workshops. But I still felt
that I was missing a lot of information - especially if I am to help researchers with their
DMPs. Finally, thanks to this course, I have the more in depth information that I need.
The topics covered, and the way they were covered also helped me to paint a better
picture in my mind of the "whole process of data management" - an not just disjointed
information which I felt I had.
It's very useful. I recommend this course.
A very informative course. i learnt a lot.
Issues from feedback
Difficult to get quizzes right
Need to check transcription of videos
Variety of speakers desirable
Peer review of assignments does not cause problems (but not included in completion requirements)
Need to monitor various parts of course for learner problems
For more information…
Visit the course
www.coursera.org/learn/data-management
Email us
[email protected], [email protected]
Twitter hashtag: #RDMSmooc