Pouwels Xavier G L V, Koffijberg Hendrik
Health Technology and Services Research, Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences, TechMed Centre, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.
Pharmacoecon Open. 2024 May;8(3):347-357. doi: 10.1007/s41669-023-00469-0. Epub 2024 Jan 18.
Open Science is gaining ground in all research fields, including health economics and outcomes research (HEOR). However, teaching Open Science is still in its infancy. This paper describes the design, implementation and evaluation of a teaching activity focusing on introducing Open Science during a Master's course during which participants have to develop a discrete event simulation. The teaching activity was organised as a series of lectures introducing different aspects of the Open Science philosophy and practices, such as good software coding practices, version control systems and reproducible research. The participants' increase in Open Science knowledge was elicited through a survey before and after the teaching innovation. After the teaching innovation, participants' knowledge of Open Science increased and they reported an improvement in Open Science-related skills, such as using a script-based statistical software, identifying and re-using open data, and collaborative script development. During the evaluation at the end of the course, the course participants mentioned that the Open Science-related content was interesting but would fit better within a course in which broader research-related content is taught. Based on this feedback, we will most likely narrow the scope of the Open-Science-related content in this course to Open Source Modelling which may better fit the scope of the course. This paper contains links to the teaching activities we developed and other resources which may be used to design teaching activities on Open Science. Herewith, we hope to inspire other teachers in including Open Science into their teaching.
开放科学在包括卫生经济学与结果研究(HEOR)在内的所有研究领域都在逐渐兴起。然而,开放科学教学仍处于起步阶段。本文描述了一项教学活动的设计、实施和评估,该活动聚焦于在一门硕士课程中引入开放科学,在此课程中参与者必须开展离散事件模拟。教学活动被组织成一系列讲座,介绍开放科学理念与实践的不同方面,如良好的软件编码实践、版本控制系统和可重复研究。通过教学创新前后的一项调查,了解参与者在开放科学知识方面的增长情况。教学创新后,参与者的开放科学知识有所增加,并且他们报告在与开放科学相关的技能方面有了提高,比如使用基于脚本的统计软件、识别和重新利用开放数据以及协作式脚本开发。在课程结束时的评估中,课程参与者提到与开放科学相关的内容很有趣,但在一门教授更广泛研究相关内容的课程中会更合适。基于这一反馈,我们很可能会将本课程中与开放科学相关的内容范围缩小到开源建模,这可能更符合课程的范围。本文包含我们所开展的教学活动的链接以及其他可用于设计开放科学教学活动的资源。在此,我们希望激励其他教师将开放科学纳入他们的教学之中。