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Format Shift
The PressBooks version of this course was made possible by the UNBC Centre for Teaching and Learning OER Development Grant (2025)
PressBooks and h5p conversion of the course was done by Madi Tokarchuk
Acknowledgements for original Athabasca University Course Development:
Contributors
This course was made possible with the support of:
AU Faculty of Graduate Studies
AU Library and Scholarly Resources
Course Project Team
- Robyn Stobbs, RDM Librarian
- Corinne Bosse, Learning Designer
- Ansun Yan, Multimedia Specialist
AU Researchers
We thank the following AU researchers for contributing their expertise and being featured in these modules.
- Dr. Josie Auger, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Dr. Janelle Baker, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Dr. Vive Kumar, Faculty of Science and Technology
- Dr. Eduardo Ordonez-Ponce, Faculty of Business
- Dr. Kharah Ross, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Dr. Lorraine Thirsk, Faculty of Health Disciplines
- Cheryl Trask, Research Assistant, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
PowerEDTM
PowerED™, an entrepreneurial unit within Athabasca University, builds on the university’s rich history of online learning, flexibility, and accessibility. At PowerED™ we embrace innovation and next-level learning. We provide online, on-demand learning for organizations and individual learners. We focus on assisting organizations to develop and deploy their digital learning strategies, build hard and soft skills, and drive results. We provide tangible tools and training to inspire breakthroughs — for individuals, employees, and organizations — in a meaningful way with immediate impact. Power for Business. Power for People. Power for Good. Visit PowerED.ca.
Reviewers
We gratefully acknowledge our peer reviewers from the National Training Expert Group in the RDM Network of Experts of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada: Jennifer Abel, Jane Fry, Jaime Lee Orr, and Nick Rochlin.
Licensed Content
This course would not have been possible without the openly licensed work of others. These works are acknowledged where they appear in the modules as well as in this list.
The “FAIR Principles” text has been reused in Module 1 from https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/, licensed CC-BY 4.0 by GO FAIR.
Definitions of sensitive data in Module 2 have been adapted from the “Sensitive data Toolkit for Researchers Part 1: Glossary of Terms for Sensitive Data Used for Research Purposes” by the Portage Network Sensitive Data Expert Group. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4088946. Licensed CC-BY-NC 4.0.
An example readme in Module 3 was created by Kristin Briney (2014, February 25). Readme.txt. DATA AB INITIO: Managing data right, from the start. http://dataabinitio.com/?p=378. Licensed CC-BY 4.0.
The Data Dictionary image from “How to Make a Data Dictionary” was used in Module 3. Licensed CC0 by the Open Science Foundation. https://help.osf.io/article/217-how-to-make-a-data-dictionary
Content in Module 4 is adapted from the Research Data MANTRA [online course] “Keeping research data safe” module at https://mantra.ed.ac.uk/. Licensed CC-BY 4.0. The MANTRA course was authored by Research Data Service at the University of Edinburgh.
Module 4 included a video created by Kristin Briney, University of Wisconsin Data Services, titled Data Management 3-2-1 Rule. Licensed CC-BY 4.0.
Module 5 included the text and icons from About CC Licenses https://creativecommons.org/about/cclicenses/. Licensed CC-BY 4.0.
Module 5 included content adapted from Data Citation by Cornell University’s Research Data Management Service Group. CC-BY 4.0.
