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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

www.coursera.org/learn/data-management #RDMSmooc

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

tibbo@ils.unc.edu, r.rice@ed.ac.uk

Twitter hashtag: #RDMSmooc

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