TU Delft Open Science Strategic Plan #oeglobal19

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Willem van Valkenburg
@wfvanvalkenburg
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Open Science Strategic Plan:
the next step in Open Education at TU Delft

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Agenda
• Strategic Framework
• Open Science programme
• Open Education
• Next steps

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Impact for a
better society
4 leading principles:
• Excellence
• Impact
• Engagement
• Openness

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External incentives for Open Science
The Dutch government and various funders have formulated Open Science
goals, such as:
• Government:
“Open Science” and “Open access” will become the norm.
• Ministry of Education:
All teachers in higher education share and reuse open educational
resources in 2025.
• National Research Organization NWO:
Research results paid for by public funds should be freely accessible
worldwide. This applies to both scientific publications and other forms
of scientific output.
• European Research Council:
Supports the principle of open access to the published output of
research and promotes the basic principle of open access to research
data.

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Open Science Programme
TU Delft wishes to:
• comply with (inter)national policies and funding
requirements;
• anticipate future developments;
• and therefore develop a Strategic Plan Open Science for
the coming years.
The goal is to embed Open Science
throughout the university in all
faculties and services.

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Open Science project lines
and cross-cutting themes
Open
Access
Open
Publishing
Platform
FAIR
data
FAIR
Software
Open
Education
Rewards & Recognition in the Open Era
Fruitful Collaboration with Third Parties
Skills for Open Science

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Open Access
• The focus of Open Access will be extended
from peer-reviewed scientific articles to
books, conference proceedings, book chapters,
reports, reviews and educational resources.
• The project supports this development by
addressing both policy and infrastructure
aspects that are crucial to the further
development of Open Access practices.

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Open Publishing Platform
• Open Publishing provides the infrastructure and
processes for creating open content.
• Open publishing infrastructures use open source
software wherever possible, thus reducing the
intrinsic costs of the publishing process.
• The project will deliver a publishing platform, as
well as services that enable TU Delft researchers
and teachers to adopt the open publishing principle.

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FAIR data
• FAIR = Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and
Reusable
• The project creates a stronger bridge between the
current policy, infrastructure and culture of data
stewardship and scientific practice in order to fulfill
the researchers’ actual needs in managing their
research data.
• A coherent approach to FAIR data, which also takes
into account the limits to open data, helps make
research more transparent and efficient.

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FAIR software
• Research software is fundamental to
contemporary research, particularly in the
context of reproducibility.
• Research software needs to be treated with the
same diligence and accuracy as research
publications and research data.
• The project will be developing and facilitating
various aspects of research software, including
policy, infrastructure and organizational
culture.

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Cross-cutting themes
Rewards &
Recognition in the
Open Era
To encourage the actual
practice of OS principles,
it is imperative that
researchers and teachers
are rewarded and
recognized for their
efforts
Fruitful
collaboration with
third parties
Skills for Open
Science
focuses on guidelines,
policies and regulation
that help to deal with
any issues or
opportunities that arise
in (developing)
collaborations with
third parties, with
regard to the outputs.
Researchers, teachers,
students and support
staff will (further)
develop certain skills in
order to be able to
apply the Open Science
principles in their daily
practices.

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Value Proposition for Open Education
Students
Accessibility
Quality
Flexibility
Cost reduction
Modern learning methods
Teachers
Impact
Career perspective
Possibility to innovate
Recognition for
education effort
University
Quality
Innovation
Reputation

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Current open education activities
Initiatives
OpenScience
programme
Open & Online
Education
Programme
SURF
Versnellingsplan
Operations
Copyright/Open
License helpdesk
MOOC production
process
OCW publication
process
OpenTextBook
process
open part of
procurement
process
Training
Introduction to
Open Education
Finding, sharing
and caring for
educational
resources
Copyright
workshop for
Teachers
OpenTextBook in
a day
Open
Assets
OpenCourseWare
platform
OpenTextBook
platform
Open Exercise
platform
Projects
OpenTextbooks
project
OER Search
Engine
PRIME
Digital Skills

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High Level Goals for Open Education
1. Continue to be a frontrunner in open education
outside and inside TU Delft
2. Use open education to get more recognition and
appreciation for teachers
3. Innovate and improve our education via open
education
4. Keep education accessible and affordable and
make it more flexible for students
5. Contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals
with open education

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• Standard production service for publishing compliant to 5Rs
• Support for creating and publishing interactive open textbooks
OpenTextbooks
• Supporting teachers in doing this
Replacing Commercial Textbook with Open Resources
• Mathematics and digital skills assessments and exercises
published online with an open license
Open Assessment & Exercise Platform
• Integrated Copyright & Open Licensing services in Teaching
Academy Services
Copyright & Open Licenses Helpdesk

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Next steps
• Plan has been approved this week
• Hiring of an dedicated project employee,
next to current staff members

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Willem van Valkenburg
@wfvanvalkenburg W.F.vanValkenburg@tudelft.nl

TU Delft Open Science Strategic Plan #oeglobal19

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