Keynote Lecture 4: Open Science in Education Research—A Worldwide Challenge and Opportunity

Open Science in Education Research—A Worldwide Challenge and Opportunity
Open science is a concept and movement that is sweeping the world of science and scholarship across fields. It is impelled by the ethic of transparency in research at every stage of the research enterprise and of sharing knowledge and data. Also fundamental to open science is that policy and practice need to be based on evidence and on access to well warranted research. This lecture is situated in the open science and open access movement. Where does the field of education research stand in relationship to this 21st century movement, what are the principles and practices that underlie open science, and what are the implications of new ways of doing and sharing research for education research as a field? Examples will be drawn from fields of education research that have been more engaged in open science practices and from fields of research very early on in thinking about how open science practices could or should reshape their work. The talk will examine these issues from an international context. It will conclude by framing the principles and practices we might articulate and endorse together to build a more robust education science that is trusted, valued, and with the potential for greater impact worldwide.