The role of open source in the future of geoscience education

We discuss the role of open source practices, including versioning, collaboration and reproducibility in the future of geoscience education. Presented at the 2018 Reflex TechCon (http://reflexnow.com/tech-con-2018/)

1. The role of open source in the future of geoscience education Lindsey Heagy & Rowan Cockett, Seogi Kang, Doug Oldenburg, and the UBC-GIF Team Reflex Techcon January 19, 2018
6. What? • 1 day course ◦ 1 “textbook” ◦ 26 notebook-apps ◦ 560 slides • + 1 day “lab” ◦ Discussion, tutorials ◦ Presentations from participants http://disc2017.geosci.xyz Perth, Australia
7. Who? • Participants ◦ Industry professionals ◦ Researchers ◦ Graduate students • Some with backgrounds in EM, some not • ~1000 people, 21 countries http://disc2017.geosci.xyz Singapore Mexico City
8. Goals • Inspire through applications ◦ See variety of case histories • Build a foundation ◦ Basic principles of EM ◦ Set realistic expectations of EM • Promote development of an EM community http://disc2017.geosci.xyz Singapore
9. + learning & teaching
10. currently learning & teaching
11. currently learning & teaching
12. currently learning & teaching
13. currently learning & teaching
15. • Bugs • Reviewed by ~2 people • No discussion / issue board? • How did they make that figure? • Is it Current? out of date? • Limited input / feedback • Reuse is limited ◦ copy paste writing ◦ licensing restrictions • Roadmap? Is there one? • Who do I ask? are there stewards of this work? • Limited collaboration opportunities ◦ 1 or 2 (the good ones have 2) • Diff? What changed in this version? ◦ version 1 is in the used book store and is $100 cheaper. What changed? - only question order? currently
16. this is a problem currently
17. capture share iterate in place • iterate in place • reproducible • tested • collaborative • track issues • continuous peer review • feedback • extensible • versioned • ...
18. capture share open source • iterate in place • reproducible • tested • collaborative • track issues • continuous peer review • feedback • extensible • versioned • ...
19. open source practices applied to educational resources https://geosci.xyz
20. open source practices applied to educational resources https://geosci.xyz
21. use the web • navigation ◦ outline ◦ links • searchable • internationalizable ◦ Google translate https://em.geosci.xyz/content/geophysical_surveys/dcr/index.html
22. collaborate • fix a typo • ask a question https://em.geosci.xyz/content/geophysical_surveys/dcr/index.html
23. collaborate 7 step framework for case histories • contribute new content ◦ structure & organization essential https://em.geosci.xyz/content/case_histories/index.html
24. collaborate 7 step framework for case histories • contribute new content ◦ structure & organization essential https://em.geosci.xyz/content/case_histories/index.html • 17 contributors on github • 18 case histories on em geosci • 31 total contributors
25. peer review & versioning
26. peer review & versioning • work in parallel • track & attribute changes • have a discussion
27. reproducibility
28. reproducibility • open source software for running computations • save and distribute code https://em.geosci.xyz/content/maxwell2_static/fields_from_grounded_sources_dcr/electrostatic_sphere.html
29. interactivity
30. interactivity
31. interactivity
32. extensibility can these concepts be applied to solve my problem?
34. capture share open source • iterate in place • reproducible • tested • collaborative • track issues • continuous peer review • feedback • extensible • versioned • ...
35. open source • iterate in place • reproducible • tested • collaborative • track issues • continuous peer review • feedback • extensible • versioned • ...
36. counting some things Jan 2016 - Jan 2018 1 2 9 18 21 26 26 52 -0.4 452 721 1040 30,421 130,171 textbook days tutorials case histories countries visited notebook apps locations worldwide contributors to em geosci IT staff clones of the apps powerpoint slides course participants users of em geosci page views of em geosci Doug Oldenburg & Seogi Kang Hyderabad, India
37. thank you! @lheagy @lindsey_jh lindseyheagy@gmail.com https://geosci.xyz
38. (the end) Except where noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License