Tested Studies for Laboratory Teaching (ABLE Proceedings)

Title:

Conducting Authentic Collaborative Research in Undergraduate Biology Courses Using the Open Science Framework

Url:

http://www.ableweb.org/volumes/vol-37/v37reprint.php?ch=1

Author:

Anne B. Allison

Author's Address:

Piedmont Virginia Community College, VA

Email Address:

aallison@pvcc.edu

Description: The Open Science Framework (OSF) is a free, online research management tool, currently in beta release
from the nonprofit Center for Open Science. The OSF may soon interface with scientific journals to allow
access beyond supplementary material to original raw data associated with a publication. Here, the OSF is
used in an alternative way to manage authentic research projects in undergraduate lab curricula. A project
from an upper level cell biology course is presented to demonstrate how the OSF 1) helps faculty manage
many students working on an authentic research project, and 2) helps students practice rigorous, transparent
scientific reporting.

Keywords:

Blind Overlapping Data Collection/Analysis
Research Workflow
collaboration
Open Science Framework/OSF
Research Lifecycle
authentic research
Best Scientific Practices

Topic:

Teaching Tools and Techniques
Cell Biology

BEN Subject/Discipline Taxonomy:

Teaching Tools and Techniques
Cell biology

Learning Resource Type:

Teaching strategies & guidelines (DCMI Type Vocabulary)

Context:

Undergraduate lower division 13-14
Undergraduate upper division 15-16

Format:

pdf