After a short hiatus, our Week in Review series by Bill Mills has returned! We’re shifting the focus of these posts to the broader community, so if you have goings-on in open science you’d like highlighted that week, make sure to let us know.

Open Education Week

This week marked #openeducationwk, a worldwide effort to promote and advance the discussion around open educational resources, organized by the Open Education Consortium. A few interesting highlights from the event are as follows:

• The US Office of Science & Technology Policy reiterated its strong support of Open Education, blogging last week about its efforts for the movement, and re-emphasized the goals and commitments it made late last year.
• The Open Education Working Group published a blog series on open education initiatives from around the world:
  • Using Open Data As Educational Resources
  • Teaching Children About Creative Commons Licenses
  • Open Education in Russia
  • Open Education in Adult Education
  • Open Education in South Korea
• Creative Commons’ work in opening access to education in Sub-Saharan Africa & India
• An interactive world map highlighting and connecting open educational efforts worldwide
• A panoply of media: Why Open Education Matters from Blink Tower in South Africa; web radio on the state of textbooks in education by Jason Osler; and an extensive & participatory video conversation around open ed, organized by the Disruptive Media Learning Lab
• A call for submissions for the annual conference of the Association for Learning Technology, emphasizing open ed this year.

Also for Open Education Week, the lab’s own Bill Mills spoke at Mozilla’s Open Education Working Group call, hosted every two weeks and open to the public. Bill commented on the key role of community and inclusivity in open education, how accessible, welcoming spaces to learn and share skills are crucial to the open science movement, and how the Science Lab is trying to create these spaces with its Study Group initiative.

The Week in Open Science

• Taking advantage of Apple’s new ResearchKit API for health data, Sage Bionetworks highlighted their work on two new apps leveraging this data to combat Parkinson disease and breast cancer. (Don’t forget – our friends at Sage have two other projects on Collaborate you can jump in an participate on!)
• Ross Mounce set off a firestorm when he pointed out Elsevier appeared to be charging for an open access article, re-opening the debate around ‘hybrid open access’ publishing, and highlighting the at times nebulous and unintuitive rules at play in this space.
• Stephen Curry wrote an article on his experience publishing negative results in the life sciences, in which he discussed how open access is helping to make such publications possible, and how this culture shift can empower researchers to move on at their discretion, rather than being trapped hunting for positive results.
• The Italian research community agreed the founding of a non-profit national organization for the promotion of open science.
• Nicole Radziwill wrote an illuminating article (with examples!) on the hazards of inferential statistics and the dangers of using the p-value as the arbiter of truth, in the wake of Basic and Applied Social Psychology‘s ban on p-values.
• re3data.org and Databib have merged to produce a combined registry of data repositories, promoting standardization and discoverability in data distribution. Also, the registry announced a new API to enable machine access to their database.
• (published January, but popular this week), Isabella Peters et al released a study into correlations between data citations, DOI availability and altmetrics, noting that the availability of a DOI does lead to more data citations, but the current deployment of this and other infrastructure is still very low.
• The Scientifc Data blog at Nature described the great positive impact generalist data repository services like Dryad and Figshare are having by providing data hosting services to researchers & journals.
• Open Science ASAP did a Hangout On Air this past weekend, visiting the Bricobio DIY Biology lab in Montreal. Also, checkout ASAP’s collection of markdown templates for open science on GitHub!

Last but not least, happy birthday once again to our friends at the Center for Open Science (two years already last week), and remember to check out the open science round up from our colleague Eva Amsen, over at F1000 Research.