The open science and reproducible research course

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.