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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.
…Webinar on online assessment: limitations and opportunities
The past year many of us have experienced that online assessment is not a matter of simply putting your exam questions online. This webinar will give an overview of options TestVision and Canvas have to offer.
…RDM Experts Community meeting – 9 March 2021
Join us for the RDM Experts Community meeting of March!
…The FAIRsFAIR Roadshow is about to visit the Netherlands
The FAIRsFAIR Roadshow is about to visit The Netherlands. In collaboration with LCRDM and DANS, FAIRSFAIR brings you a program with several FAIR elements. FAIRsFAIR aims to supply practical solutions for the use of the FAIR data principles, such as tools for raising awareness about FAIR or even measuring the level of FAIRness.
…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.
…Imaging-specific data storage and viewing platform
DataHub has deployed a first version of its XNAT Substainable Research PACS to be used for storage of imaging-related research data across Maastricht University and MUMC+.
…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.
…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.
…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.
…More control of participants, actions and external access within your research
SURF has awarded funding for the project proposals “Further development Ldot tool” from MEMIC and “Secure access to iRODS in combination with SRAM” from DataHub.
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