Presentation in Edulearn 2014 6th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies 7-9 July 2014

1. Prom-Open: Promoting
Open Science in an on-line
e-learning environment
Alexandre López-Borrull
Estudis Ciències Informació I la Comunicació
KIMO Research Group
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Barcelona. Catalonia
alopezbo@uoc.edu @alexandrelopez
Edulearn 2014 6th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies 7-9 July 2014

2. Table of Contents
• Introduction to Open Science
• Approaches to Open Science
• Promoting Open Science in an on-line
e-learning university: UOC
• References

3. Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) has strongly
changed the way we behave in our
day-to-day
After Edition, Music and Audiovisual
industry, Universities have began
their transition to ICT

4. ICTs have been the main driving
force for two main changes:
- Collaboration
- Open Movement

5. Collaborative vision
• On the shoulder of giants
• Resources Management and
Optimization
• More ambition on Challenges
Figure 1. Honeycomb
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bienenkoenigin_43a.jpg

6. Open Vision
Figure 2. Logo Open Access PLOS
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Open_Access_PLoS.svg

7. Open Science
An Open vision (and free) of contents and
processes in every step of Scientific
Research
Strongly dependent on ICT and their
evolution
• Open Notebook
• Open Source Software
• Open Peer Review
• Open Acces
• Open Data
Figure 3. Logo Open Science
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Open_Science_Logo.jpg

8. Are Open and Collaborative
synonyms?
Open
Collaborative
CERN
UHP
Medicine

9. So, aVision Open is...
• ...an ideology?
• ...a methodology?
• ...an attitude?

10. As an attitude, OpenVision...
• ...should be spread
• ...should be exemplary
• ...should be promoted in
university teaching

11. Prom-Open, How can the
OpenVision be promoted in
teaching?
Figure 4. Open vision in Research

12. Promoting Open Science in an
on-line e-learning university:
UOC
• UOC began its activities in
the academic year
1995/1996
• > 53,242 students
• > 46,682 graduates
• > 7,400 virtual classrooms
• > 3,666 teaching staff
Figure 5. UOC Venue
http://cv.uoc.edu/UOC/a/comunicat/20101/estudia
nts-universitat/estudiants-universitat.html

13. Open Educational Resources:
Contents in Subjects
• OpenCourseWare
• Wiki
Figure 6. OCW UOC
http://ocw.uoc.edu/frontal_ocw_home_v2.gif

14. Resources in theVirtual
Classroom: Complementary
Reading
• Should it be Open?
• Virtual Library
Figura 6. UOC Digital Library
http://ocw.uoc.edu/frontal_ocw_home_v2.gif

15. Software
• Are there alternative
and Open Source
Software available?
• Are they suitable and
manageable for the
UOC classroom?
Figura 7. Logo Open Source Initiative.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Opensource.svg

16. Collaborative and Open in the
virtual classroom
• Collective feedback
• Teamworks
• Should works from students
be spread in the repository?
Figura 10. Logo Wikispaces
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikispaces-logo.png

17. Conclusions and trends
• The Open Movement has shown that it was not an
alternative to quality
• It is difficult to live in a whole Open day-to-day
• Promotion of the Open Movement, mainly Open Science,
should include teaching and students
• Open Science should be considered as a skill in
universitary degrees

18. References
• Leydesdorff, L.;Wagner, C.S. (2008). International Collaboration in
science and the formation of a core group. Journal of Informetrics, vol.
2, num. 4, p. 317-325.
• Harnad, Stevan (2005).“Fast-forward on the green road to Open
Access: the case against mixing up green and gold”.Ariadne, 42. <
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue42/harnad/
• López-Borrull,A.; Oppenheim, C. (2004). "Legal aspects of the web".
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology.Vol. 38, pp. 483-
548.
• Smart. J., Scott, M., McCarthy, J. B., et al (2012). Big Science and Big
Administration. Confronting the Governance, Financial and Legal
Challenges of FuturICT. Eur.Phys.J.SpecialTopics, num. 214, p. 635-666.

19. Thanks!!!
Moltes gràcies!!!
Alexandre López-Borrull
Estudis Ciències Informació I la Comunicació
KIMO Research Group
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
alopezbo@uoc.edu @alexandrelopez