[open-science] Open Science MOOC - feedback open!

Sun Feb 25 10:59:09 UTC 2018

First of all, great!
This absolutely needs to happen.
I ran what was probably the first online science course in 1995 -
Principles of Protein Structure , in BioMOO (text and image-based virtual
reality with multimedia (protein modelling software)). We have 250 signed
up members. Everyone who applied was admitted. We built some wonderful
things in the course. See http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/PPS2/ (they stripped
my name out of the history). So I am passionate.
Ever since I have been trying to repeat this experience and finding that
the world was not ready for the vision. There are several reasons - partly
that we were 10-15 years ahead of our time , and partly that education is
10-15 years behind the time. Things will have changed but...
 * "build it and they will come" is unlikely to work
 * virtual communities require a lot of hard support work.
 * for many people education is about getting formal qualifications, not
knowledge and understanding.
However remember Clarke's first law "When an elderly [male] scientist says
something is impossible he is almost certainly wrong"

I am very happy to help in a limited way. Whatever is done it will take a
huge amount of time and there will be instances where it is just slogging
through apathy and technical problems. Very happy to join planning
discussions in a gentle way but cannot commit to producing course material
or managing participants.

P.

On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 9:19 AM, Jon Tennant <jon.tennant.2 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I hope this email finds you all well. I'm writing to you on behalf of the Open
> Science MOOC <https://opensciencemooc.eu/>, a training and education
> platform that is being built by the global research community (including
> many of you!).
>
> For the last couple of weeks, we have been hammering away at the structure
> and outline as a foundation for future development, and including learning
> outcomes and objectives, tasks, key resources, and topical components for
> each of the 10 modules. I'm happy to say that the first draft has just been
> finished, and is open for feedback and suggestions from, well, anyone. The
> document is openly available *here
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KuTSECSYHXZmZX15GDjyD65pJ90eRMhHVEZ-1trsw30/edit?usp=sharing>*,
> and we welcome comments from all of you, no matter what your background or
> experiences in open science might be.
>
> I would be especially grateful if any of you could find the time here,
> given your collective knowledge and enthusiasm for all things open
> science/research/scholarship/education. If anyone would like to know
> more, or speak about this project on a more personal basis, please feel
> free to contact me however you prefer. Hopefully we should have some more
> good news on this front in the coming weeks too. For updates, those of you
> on Twitter can follow the project here <https://twitter.com/OpenSci_MOOC/>
> .
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jon
>
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>    - Founder of the Open Science MOOC <https://opensciencemooc.eu/>.
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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dept. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
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