Lessons Learned From a Research Data Management Pilot Course at an Academic Library

Abstract

Setting and Objective From January-March 2014, three librarians from the University of Washington (UW) taught a course in research data manage-ment as a pilot for the New England Collabo-rative Data Management Curriculum (NECDMC). The goals of the workshops were to a) pilot the NECDMC curriculum to see how effective it was as an out-of-the box solution for teaching research data manage-ment (RDM), and b) to gauge interest in an RDM class among certain UW student popu-lations, and c) to teach UW's first RDM work-shop offered to non-librarians. Design and Methods The NECDMC consists of 7 modules that can be taught independently or as a series. UW decided to teach all seven modules con-secutively, as one-hour long weekly work-shops. Each module included a lecture and activity or discussion. We taught at one lo-cation on upper campus, and live-streamed the lecture to another location in the Health Sciences Library. Each module was as-sessed at the end of the class.