Research integrity in scientific professions
- Duration: 4 weeks
- Effort: 16 hours
- Pace: ~4 hours/week
- Enrollment
- From Aug. 23, 2020 to Aug. 16, 2021
- Course
- From Sept. 1, 2020 to Aug. 31, 2021
- Languages
- English
What you will learn
At the end of this course, you will be able to:
- adopt a critical approach,
- support the requirements of research integrity.
The objective of this training is to disseminate a culture of research integrity within institutions. Rather than passing on knowledge (this is not a learning process), it is a matter of raising awareness of the various issues associated with research integrity and encouraging a critical approach by proposing the basic elements necessary to understand and support the requirements of research integrity. This training aims at:
- Inform you about research integrity issues,
- alert you to the mechanisms that can lead to scientific misconducts,
- encourage you to develop a sense of responsibility and conduct yourself in a spirit of scientific integrity.
Description
Since the Singapore Statement on Research Integrity in 2010, the international scientific community has been mobilizing to ensure that the methodological and ethical requirements of research are more clearly stated, in a context where the race for novelty and the introduction of a reinforced competitive logic increase the risks of scientific misconducts. In addition, regulatory strengthening and social responsibility issues require knowledge of fundamental principles of research integrity.
The various research organisations in France have multiplied their initiatives and their convergence has led to the signature of the "charte de déontologie des métiers de la recherche" (Charter of Ethics in Research Professions) by the CPU (Conference of University Presidents) and the main research bodies in January 2015. Following the report submitted by Pr. Pierre Corvol in 2016, Bilan et propositions de mise en œuvre de la charte nationale d’intégrité scientifique (Assessment and proposals for the implementation of this charter), several decisions were taken, notably:
- doctoral schools must ensure that doctoral students benefit from training in ethics and research integrity,
- institutions have appointed a delegate to research integrity ("référent intégrité scientifique"),
- a French Office for Scientific Integrity (OFIS) was installed in 2017 at the HCERES.
Committed to this issue since 2012 with the adoption of a charter of ethic, the University of Bordeaux has developed this course on research integrity, in partnership with CPU (Conférence des Présidents d’Université), and the main French research bodies (COMETS-CNRS, INSERM and INRA). With the support of the Bordeaux IdEx and the Collège des écoles doctorales, this course was designed with the Mission d'appui à la pédagogie et à l'innovation (MAPI) of the University of Bordeaux.
This training has been attended by PhD students from the University of Bordeaux since 2017 and by other higher education and research institutions since 2018. It was introduced as a MOOC on FUN from November 2018. Nearly 10,000 learners registered each year for the first 2 sessions. Of the 2,511 responses to the MOOC evaluation questionnaire, 97% considered it useful and 99% that they had acquired new knowledge.
Format
This MOOC is a self-paced course. This session 3 will be continuously open from 1st September 2020 to 31 August 2021. As soon as it opens, you can set your own work pace and have access to all the educational content and fun and collaborative activities. You will discover a wide variety of tools: campus videos, professors' interviews by PhD students, interviews with experts, testimonials from PhD students, animations, interactive situations, tests to verify the knowledge acquired, films, discussions on forums to enrich your training experience, without forgetting additional resources to enable you to go further. Four support periods (« waves ») will be organized - one each trimester - and will allow you to ask your questions to the pedagogical team. More information is provided in the introductory section "Before you start".Prerequisites
This MOOC is intended primarily for young researchers in all universities and other higher education and research institutions in France and abroad. More broadly, it concerns anyone who wonders what integrity and responsible research is.Assessment and certification
This MOOC gives rise to a successful follow-up certificate. To validate this training, you must obtain at least 80% of correct answers to the four quizzes proposed (one per module). This certificate will be delivered by FUN at the end of each proposed facilitation session and directly downloadable on your dashboard. Depending on the date on which you validate the entire training, you will obtain your certificate in January, April, July or October. More information is provided in the introductory section "Before you start".
Course plan
- This module outlines the issues of research integrity.
- This module focuses on clarifying what constitutes scientific misconducts and their origins.
- This module specifies certain rules to prevent scientific misconducts.
- This module deals with the regulation of these misconducts, through collective arrangements or through the researcher's individual responsibility.
Other course runs
- Enrollment
- From Aug. 23, 2020 to Aug. 17, 2021
- Course
- From Sept. 1, 2020 to Sept. 1, 2021
- Languages
- French
Upcoming
- From Sept. 1, 2021 to Aug. 31, 2022
Archived
- From Oct. 1, 2019 to Sept. 1, 2020
- From Nov. 7, 2018 to Oct. 2, 2019
Course team
Antoine De Daruvar
Camille Jeunet
Layal Massara
Marcellin Dupart
Thibaut Maury
Organizations
Languages
English and French
All course content, activities, and resources are in English. For accessibility purposes, all videos are subtitled in English and transcripts in.rtf format are available for download. All the proposed contents are also available in French on the French version of the MOOC available here: "Intégrité scientifique dans les métiers de la recherche".
License
License for the course content
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
You are free to:
- Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
Under the following terms:
- Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
- NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.
License for the content created by course participants
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
You are free to:
- Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
Under the following terms:
- Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
- NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.
