Building Open Science and Scholarship in SoLAR

This SoLAR initiated workshop aims to bring together the SoLAR community to explore how open science and scholarship can be incorporated into our culture and practice using a three-part interactive format. Amongst the questions to be discussed are: What could and should SoLAR do to encourage open science and scholarship?; What prevents researchers in SoLAR from contributing to open science?; Which learning analytics approaches could (not) be made open, and why?; And what could SoLAR do to make open science and scholarship more attractive and relevant? We aim to share the outcomes of the workshop broadly within the SoLAR community and invite the community to respond to both the outcomes of this workshop and the follow-up SoLAR position paper.

Objectives of the workshop

• Building on the notion of Nosek et al. (2015) that open access is a classical collective action problem, what could and should SoLAR do to encourage open science and scholarship?

• What prevents researchers in the learning analytics community from contributing to open science and scholarship?

• Gehlbach and Robinson (2021) argued, “Some open science practices may be readily adopted, some adapted, and some inappropriate”. Which learning analytics fall into these categories, and why?

• What could SoLAR do to make open science more attractive and relevant, while acknowledging that not all scholarship can be made available openly?