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Published in rOpenSci - open tools for open science
Authors Laura Ación, Mara Averick, Auriel Fournier, Alison Hill, Sean Kross, Lincoln Mullen

tl;dr : we propose three calls to action: Share your curricular materials in the open. Participate in the rOpenSci Education profile series. Discuss with us how you want to be involved in rOpenSci Educators’ Collaborative.

Published in rOpenSci - open tools for open science
Authors Laura Ación, Mara Averick, Auriel Fournier, Alison Hill, Sean Kross, Lincoln Mullen

In the first post of this series, we sketched out some of the common challenges faced by educators who teach with R across scientific domains. In this post, we delve into what makes a “good” educational resource for teaching science with R. For instructors teaching sciences with R, there are a number of open educational resources that they can reuse, tailor to their own teaching style, or use to inspire them in creating their own materials.

Published in rOpenSci - open tools for open science
Authors Laura Ación, Mara Averick, Auriel Fournier, Alison Hill, Sean Kross, Lincoln Mullen

Educators who teach science using R tend to face common pedagogical problems, regardless of their scientific domain. Yet instructors who teach with R often feel isolated at their institutions. They may be the only ones in their departments to teach using R. Even if there are others, the culture of collaboration around teaching is generally impoverished, unlike the rich culture of collaboration around research.