Publishing a Scientific Article With Your Students

13-17 July 2020

Course participants will have the opportunity to explore the ways they can publish work they have already completed with their students during the school year on the Open Schools Journal for Open Science (OSJ).

OSJ is the first European journal designed to the specifications of a regular journal that is both intended for students and is written by students. It accepts original papers written by students from Primary and Secondary schools across Europe under the mentoring of their Teachers on all aspects of Science, Engineering and Technology. Students and teachers are invited to publish the data and results produced by their school project. Articles are reviewed by scientists and professors and then published on a regular basis. Through this process, students are introduced to the concept of Open Science, data and the value of digital identities, develop critical thinking skills and learn more about the importance of supporting their opinion.

During the course teachers will be trained so that they can support their students for publishing their work. Initially, they will be exposed to the beauty of the methodology of scientific research and the important phases within. The correlations with the inquiry-based learning will also be highlighted in order to encourage teachers to underline the resemblances between their daily routines and the work conducted by the academia. Also, they will have an insight on how the Journal works and they will get familiarized with the phases before publication.

Participants will have to choose between preparing their own ideas to be published in the form of scientific articles or to work on one of the samples prepared by the organisers. They have to work on the content they have based on the official OSJ template. By the end of the course, they will have published a scientific article, but more importantly they will be ready mentors to inspire and guide their students to publish their articles.

This course is mostly addressed to STEM teachers or teachers from other disciplines that are interested to present students’ research work in a disciplinary manner. The course is limited to 15 participants.

Open Schools for Open Science Journal is part of the European OpenAIRE project, co-funded by the European Union.

Find out more about the OJS here: https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/openschoolsjournal/index

Description

The course will be divided into four two-hour sessions.

Methodology of Scientific Methodology and the Inquiry Based Approach in Education

Participants will get familiarized with the terms of “scientific research” and the meaning of each phase of research. The presentation of the inquiry based will underline the similarities in the manners the academia and the school work and it will boost the confidence of the participants to complete their own articles by the end of the course.

This is the Open Schools Journal for Open Science!

Participants will be navigated in the Open Schools Journal for Open Science (OSJ) and they will be familiarized with the processes of a scientific Journal. They will be presented the official template and each phase will be explained, so that they can also work individually on the ideas they have selected till the next session.

Time to work together on your article

Participants have worked on the idea they will present in their article and further support will be offered by the moderator regarding the structure or anything that comes up. This will be a teamwork and participants will peer review each other’s articles.

Articles presentation

In this last session participants will present their work and they will share their experience from this course.

All these articles will be published in a Special OSJ issue by Autumn 2020.

Who should attend?

This course is designed of STEM teachers who conduct scientific researches in the form of project with their students and they would be happy to be able to publish their students’ work.

Both primary and secondary education teachers can participate. Teachers from other disciplines are more that welcome in case they are planning to follow an interdisciplinary approach.

Program / Agenda

Monday 13.07.2020	Tuesday 14.07.2020	Wednesday 15.07.2020	Thursday 16.07.2020	Friday 17.07.2020
Τhe Methodology of Scientific Research	Teaching with primary sources	Work on the developed Idea	Peer review within the team	Presentation of the Articles
The Inquiry Based Learning in Class	Primary Sources and Licensing	Work on the developed Idea	Peer review within the team
The Bridging	Presentation of the OSJ Official Template	Preparation of the Article	Final Preparation of the Articles

Preparation and Materials

All participants will be contacted earlier than the realization of the course in order to prepare the ideas they would like to work on during the course. They will be fully supported by the moderators.

Speakers / Experts

Eugenia Kypriotis: Holding a degree from the History and Philosophy of Science and a master’s degree (MSc) on Science Communication from Imperial College London, Eugenia Kypriotis has been working as a Project Manager for over a decade, developing and implementing large-scale projects in the sector of education, open data and citizen science. She is part of the EA RnD team since 2012.

Agathi Papanoti: With a BA in Archaeology and a MA in Arts and Heritage Management, Agathi Papanoti has over 10 years’ experience at the National Documentation Center. She has been involved in digital repositories, open data and documentation of cultural and scientific content and now is the Data Ingestion Specialist who curates the semantic enrichment for the Greek National aggregator.

Elena Lagoudi: With a BA in Archaeology and a MA in Museum Management, Elena Lagoudi has over 18 years’ experience in digital collections, products and services for the cultural sector. Having worked for national museums in the UK and Greece, she is now working for the National Documentation Centre (EKT) in Athens, part of the National Aggregator team.