## MOOC Learning Objectives ## <br> **<h4>Course Broad Learning Objectives:</h4>** 1. Describe the wide variety of types of research data 2. Describe the research data lifecycle 3. Explain the documentation needed to facilitate accessibility and reproducibility of research findings 4. Identify intent of data policies that have been emerging and identify the major government funding agencies currently requiring data management plans 5. Identify the basic principles that govern both human subject research and use of animals for research 6. Describe tools available to foster collaboration and sharing of resources 7. Explain why managing and sharing research data in important 8. Distinguish the characteristics of long-term storage, curation and preservation of research data 9. Understand the support role an information professional can play in research data management planning and recognize the potential partnerships between librarians and researchers <br> **<h4>Module Specific Learning Objectives:</h4>** **<h5>Module 1 Learning Objectives:</h5>** 1. Describe the wide variety of types of research data 2. Describe the research data life cycle 3. Explain why managing and sharing research data is important 4. Identify intent of data policies that have been emerging 5. Identify major government funding agencies currently requiring a data management plan Describe the typical categories of information needed to complete a data management plan 6. Understand the support role an information professional (librarian) can play in research data management planning **<h5>Module 2 Learning Objectives:</h5>** 1. Describe the research lifecycle and the data life cycle 2. Identify common data formats and file types that facilitate long-term access to data 3. Explain the significance of observing file naming conventions and version control 4. Explain the documentation needed to facilitate accessibility and reproducibility of findings by you or someone unfamiliar with your project **<h5>Module 3 Learning Objectives:</h5>** 1. Explain what metadata is 2. Explain why metadata is important 3. Identify and describe best practices related to metadata creation 4. Describe some common metadata elements 5. Plan an approach to creating metadata for a project **<h5>Module 4 Learning Objectives:</h5>** 1. Identify storage options and strategies for your research data that will enable long-term access in spite of potential media failures or obsolescence 2. Identify a backup strategy that will allow you to restore your data in the short- or longer-term in the event that it is lost or destroyed 3. Describe options for restricting access to your research data 4. Describe mechanisms for securing hardware and software systems 5. Describe mechanisms for protecting the integrity of your data **<h5>Module 5 Learning Objectives:</h5>** 1. Differentiate and adhere to requirements embodied in funder, institutional and publisher policies 2. Explain ownership considerations related to data sharing 3. Describe potential legal issues connected to one’s data (intellectual property, copyright, licensing, data retention) **<h5>Module 6 Learning Objectives:</h5>** 1. Identify & explain the basic principles that govern Human Subjects research 2. Identify the types of information that must be provided to get approval from an Institutional Review Board (IRB) 3. Explain what is and is not Protected Health Information (PHI) 4. Enumerate the 5 situations when a Health Care Providing Entity can disclose PHI to an investigator for the purpose of research 5. Explain what is meant by the de-identification of research data and give examples of identifying data 6. Identify U.S. regulatory policies that address requirements related to animal use in research 7. Explain investigator responsibilities related to use of animals for research **<h5>Module 7 Learning Objectives:</h5>** 1. Describe tools available to foster collaboration and sharing of resources 2. Identify mechanisms to make your software code and/or data citable and sharable 3. Explain distinctions among open access/open science/open data 4. Identify policies for making your data accessible to others 5. Select an appropriate repository for sharing your data 6. Describe measures that can help track the impact of your research data **<h5>Module 8 Learning Objectives:</h5>** 1. Emphasize characteristics of long-term data curation and preservation that build on and extend active data management 2. Distinguish between preservation and curation 3. Explore the data curation role and its importance throughout the research data life cycle 4. Review good practices for data curation and preservation **<h5>Module 9 Learning Objectives:</h5>** 1. Describe a project where researchers and a librarian worked together to find a way to uniquely identify data 2. Understand how librarian skills used in the past to identify and catalog publications can be easily transferred to doing the same for data objects and collections of data objects 3. Recognize the potential of partnerships between librarians and researchers 4. Identify different roles librarians may play with research teams 5. Describe new professional skills librarians and researchers can develop through working together