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Course material and copyright
Do you know how many pages of licensed resources you are permitted to use or how many images you may use in your PowerPoint presentations or course manual?
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Creating course material to share
If you create material which you think is worthwhile for others to use, you could consider sharing your material.
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Guidelines for open and inclusive course material
As a course coordinator you will undoubtedly create material for your students. A topic we want to focus on in this context is how to create accessible documents.
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Activities in the Open Education Week 2021
Curious what happens in the field of open education worldwide? Dive into activities organised in the context of the global Open Education week.
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RDM Experts Community meeting – 9 March 2021
Join us for the RDM Experts Community meeting of March!
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Coding basics for researchers: a four-day workshop
This workshop, a joint effort of the Institute of Data Science, the ICT Service Center, and the University Library, is a hands-on training covering the basic programming skills needed to get you started working reproducibly with code.
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Discover Keylinks Learning Resources
KeyLinks Learning Resources is Maastricht University’s new reference list tool as of January 2021. It is future proof and intuitive for course coordinators and provides students with a uniform list of course related materials in Canvas. Find out why we switched from Reference List to KeyLinks and what this means for you.
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Opening up old books: treasure hunting in UM’s botanical archives
In January 5 students of the Maastricht Science Programme did some treasure hunting (digitally) in the historical plant books of UM’s Special Collections. In collaboration with Wikimedia Netherlands they wrote Wikipedia articles about it.
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Open Access increases the impact of scientific research
An interview with Henk van den Hoogen (programme manager for Research Support at the University Library) about the advantage of Open Access publishing compared to the traditional way, behind a paywall. “Open Access publishing pays off by generating more impact for your research”, he says.
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The library in times of lock down
The government’s measures of 14 December 2020 still oblige to close all libraries and learning spaces. All services, for students and staff, are provided online.
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