Open e-Learning Modules for ORD and RDM
Institutions
Eawag, Empa, EPFL, ETH Zurich, PSI, WSL
Partners
Fabian Felder, Andres Bucher, Agnieszka Ilnicka, Henry Lütcke, Angela Montano Fabian Schmid, Arne Seitz, Matthias Töwe, Moushumi Ulrich-Nath, Francesco Varrato
Description
The overall goal of this measure was to jointly develop training resources and teaching material about Research Data Management (RDM) and Open Research Data (ORD), and to make them, as well as existing resources, available across the ETH Domain for researchers. This measure followed Open Educational Resources (OER) principles, with resources structured as small, freely reusable and modifiable modules (using Creative Commons CC-BY license). The goal was to enable individual modules to be used as micro-learning courses, as well as to be integrated into longer training offerings, such as institution-specific training.
The Data Management Campus has produced:
- Eleven e-learning modules on the OpenLearnity learning management system (LMS) by the end of 2026.
- A Zenodo community where trainers can reuse and contribute Open Educational Resources (OER). As of August 2026, 58 resources have been published through the community. Six additional resources, currently being developed in collaboration with researchers, will be added by September 2026.
- The Open Research Data Portal Training page, which provides a central index of the LMS modules and OER materials.
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