IGE: Toward an interdisciplinary blueprint for Open Science Graduate Education

IGE：迈向开放科学研究研究生教育的跨学科蓝图

• 批准号: 1955049
• 负责人: Shannon Quinn
• 金额: $ 49.94万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1955049&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGE; Toward; interdisciplinary; blueprint; Open

The bedrock of any scientific enterprise is the ability to reproduce experiments: following the same set of instructions with the same instruments and obtaining the same results. Unfortunately, there are numerous obstacles in contemporary scientific research that preclude universal reproducibility. These range from key omissions or vague instructions in the experimental description to journals that require subscriptions and thus restrict access to the entire scientific product. Open Science is an approach to conducting reproducible research, but its practices are difficult and time-consuming to adopt. The National Science Foundation Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) award to University of Georgia will pilot an educational program that teams up students and faculty conducting research, with the ultimate goal of lowering barriers to conducting Open Science and catalyzing an institutional shift toward an open and transparent approach to science. The project will incentivize Open Science practices in research and education and will provide additional training opportunities to students and faculty alike to obtain skills in Open Science that are otherwise not offered in a contemporary research setting. This project will establish new curricula, creating new opportunities for future students and faculty as well as endowing them with skills that are highly sought in a variety of fields. Recent surveys reveal a pervasive belief that there is a broad reproducibility crisis in science. Examples abound across disciplines: seminal studies have been, upon later scrutiny and attempts to replicate, revealed as irreproducible. Open Science offers a principled, albeit abstract, approach to scientific research that emphasizes openness and reproducibility. Most scientists agree reproducibility must be addressed. Yet, the adoption of open practices has remained anemic, as the culture surrounding research has not been sufficiently incentivized to change, nor has the practice of Open Science been defined as a concrete process. This 3-year project aims to study how to catalyze a cultural shift in the research and educational practices at the University of Georgia. Critically, the approach is process-oriented and bidirectional: students will be recruited at varying stages of their graduate careers as the experimental cohort, and a peer support structure will be established among them. Faculty will also be recruited: supervisors of participating graduate students and experts in Open Science and institutional change. These students and faculty, representing a variety of STEM disciplines, will participate in a series of workshops to obtain a formal understanding of Open Science. Participating faculty will sustain this curriculum through their own Open Science training with external experts, course modifications, and an interdisciplinary graduate certificate program formalizing the coursework and standards for training in Open Science principles and practices. This will establish a network of influencers to effect broad institutional change, further facilitating a cultural shift toward adoption of Open Science. The Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) program is focused on research in graduate education. The goals of IGE are to pilot, test and validate innovative approaches to graduate education and to generate the knowledge required to move these approaches into the broader community.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

任何科学事业的基础都是复制实验的能力：使用相同的仪器遵循相同的指令并获得相同的结果。不幸的是，当代科学研究中存在许多障碍，阻碍了普遍的可重复性。从实验描述中的关键遗漏或含糊说明到需要订阅从而限制访问整个科学产品的期刊，这些问题不一而足。开放科学是一种进行可重复研究的方法，但它的实践很难采用，而且很耗时。授予佐治亚大学的国家科学基金会研究生教育创新奖(IGE)将试行一项教育计划，将学生和从事研究的教师联合起来，最终目标是降低开展开放科学的障碍，并催化机构向公开和透明的科学方法转变。该项目将鼓励研究和教育中的开放科学做法，并将为学生和教职员工提供额外的培训机会，以获得在当代研究环境中原本不提供的开放科学技能。该项目将建立新的课程，为未来的学生和教师创造新的机会，并赋予他们在各种领域非常受欢迎的技能。最近的调查显示，人们普遍认为，科学中存在广泛的重现性危机。跨学科的例子比比皆是：经过后来的仔细检查和复制尝试，开创性的研究被证明是不可复制的。开放科学为科学研究提供了一种原则性的、尽管抽象的方法，强调开放性和可重复性。大多数科学家一致认为，必须解决重复性问题。然而，开放实践的采用仍然乏力，因为围绕研究的文化没有得到足够的激励来改变，开放科学的实践也没有被定义为一个具体的过程。这个为期3年的项目旨在研究如何在佐治亚大学的研究和教育实践中促进文化转变。关键是，这种方法是以过程为导向的，是双向的：将在研究生职业生涯的不同阶段招募学生作为实验队列，并在他们之间建立同行支持结构。还将招聘教师：参与项目的研究生导师和开放科学与制度变革方面的专家。这些学生和教员代表不同的STEM学科，将参加一系列研讨会，以获得对开放科学的正式理解。参与课程的教师将通过与外部专家进行自己的开放科学培训、课程修改以及制定开放科学原则和实践培训的课程作业和标准的跨学科研究生证书计划来维持这一课程。这将建立一个影响者网络，以实现广泛的制度变革，进一步促进文化转向采用开放科学。研究生教育创新(IGE)项目专注于研究生教育的研究。IGE的目标是试验、测试和验证研究生教育的创新方法，并产生将这些方法推广到更广泛社区所需的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。