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Sustainability for course: Data Science in Biomedical Research |
There are several major aspects of this project and course that ensure its sustainability into the future:
- This course will be openly licensed (CC-BY 4.0) and publicly accessible. All material can be freely copied, modified, and reused by anyone, including future instructors of this course.
- Due to the format of the course (e.g. "participatory live-coding"), the learning material is fairly well structured, organized, and developed. This ensures that anyone taking over the course will have a fairly easy time instructing it.
- Several of the interested instructors are collaborating on projects aimed at developing openly licensed teaching material that overlaps with this courses aims (Data Science for scientists). Therefore this course will continue to be actively developed and maintained in the foreseeable future, regardless of graduation or employment. See the projects organization's GitHub and GitLab repositories.
It has been our experience with the [EEB RQM course] that once we developed the material, it alone was more than enough for new instructors to use and teach without much preparation. In the second year of the [EEB RQM course], two of the four instructors were new and had little difficulty teaching the material.