IGN 5-5 - The open science and reproducible research course

Wednesday, August 10, 2016
316, Ft Lauderdale Convention Center
Christie A. Bahlai, Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; Mozilla Science Lab
Ecology needs to be open because the science we do matters to people. Yet, there are two big problems hindering open ecology which can be summarized as: 1) a lack of trust among established scientists for the open science process; and 2) a lack of people with the skills needed to make open science commonplace. I have created a course that addresses both problems, and I taught it at Michigan State University this spring. Since all the materials are available under CC-BY, you should probably teach it at your institution, too. I’ll tell you how.