Online Courses
The Open Education Research Hub team wrote the Open Research course at P2PU’s School of Open. Researchers may be interested in working through the course materials to gain better insights into the role of openness in research.
If you would like to explore the impact of digital technologies on scholarly practice, then The Digital Scholar is the course for you, based on Martin Weller’s book of the same name.
John Hilton III and colleagues from the Open Education Group have released an excellent Guidebook to Research on Open Educational Resources Adoption.
Research Methods in Psychology by Paul C. Price, Rajiv S. Jhangiani and I-Chant A. Chiang is a must at any stage of your research.
The LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog shared this selection of essential guides for researchers and young academics.
And of course, there is also Becoming an Open Educator; not exactly about doing research, but aimed at educators and those interested in how free and open might change teaching and learning approaches.
During the time that the GO-GN was hosted by the The Open Universiteit Nederland members of the network were asked about training areas that might be useful to them. The following list was researched to find free online courses appropriate for doctoral training.
Public speaking
Course title: Introduction to public speaking
Mode: Self paced
URL: https://www.class-central.com/mooc/889/coursera-introduction-to-public-speaking
Academic writing
Course title: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing in English for University Study
Mode: starts 19 January 2015
URL: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/english-for-study
Course title: Principles of Written English, Part 1
Mode: Self paced
URL: https://www.class-central.com/mooc/1333/edx-colwri2-1x-principles-of-written-english-part-1
Course title: Principles of Written English, Part 2
Mode: starts 15 February 2015
URL: https://www.edx.org/course/principles-written-english-part-2-uc-berkeleyx-colwri-2-2x#.VIrw2TGG-VM
Course title: Writing in the Sciences
Mode: resources available after registration
URL: https://class.stanford.edu/courses/Medicine/Sci-Write/Fall2014/about
Review: from Francisco Iniesto: I took last 2014 fall semester “Writing in the Sciences” I found it very interesting even it is focused in Medicine, quality of educational resources is very good.
Research methods
Course title: Empirical Research Methods
Mode: Self paced
URL: http://oli.cmu.edu/courses/future/empirical-research-methods/
Course title: Solid Science: Research Methods
Mode: starts 31 August 2015
URL: https://www.coursera.org/course/solidsciencemethods
The video lectures are already available (https://class.coursera.org/solidsciencemethods-001/lecture/preview)
This course is part of a so-called specialization track: Become a Social Scientist: Methods and Statistics. The courses in this track are on https://www.coursera.org/specialization/socialscience/25/courses
Statistics
Course title: Statistical Learning
Mode: starts 19 January 2015
URL: https://class.stanford.edu/courses/HumanitiesandScience/StatLearning/Winter2015/about
Course title: Statistics in Education for Mere Mortals
Mode: starts 9 February 2015
URL: https://www.canvas.net/courses/cn-1703
Charting in Excel
Course title: How to create a basic chart in Excel 2010
Mode: Self paced
Numerous Youtube videos on this topic: see e.g. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=excel+charts+and+graphs+2010 (for Excel 2010)
Miscellaneous
Course title: OpenKnowledge Changing the Global Course of Learning
Mode: resources available after registration
URL: https://class.stanford.edu/courses/Education/OpenKnowledge/Fall2014/