GORELLA - an overview¶

There’s a fair chance you’re still wondering what all of this is exactly about. Sorry, that’s on us. On this page we want to provide a good amount of background information, the problem and how we want to address it.

The situation¶

In our scientific career (especially in the supervision of thesis work) we have observed deficits in the empirical training (or at least in the application of empirical research methods) among students. We believe that is partly due to the rapid development of scientific methods. On the other hand, our experience shows that the “old-way” of teaching scientific methods allows one to pay only limited attention to topics such as:

the individual development of contemporary and practice-oriented scientific “hard” (e.g. programming skills, application of tools) and “soft” skills (e.g. project management, communication of results)
important aspects of standardization (e.g., use of robust data standards)
the sustainable design of teaching and research materials

This leads to difficulties in everyday scientific life and in the application of what is learned.

The proposed solution¶

With GORELLA we want to create a framework that can be used as a basis for empirical teaching/training. The focus is not on the chalk and board technique, but on the dynamic communication of content and realistic goal-setting. For this purpose, different areas of Open Science (see procedure) are projected onto the life cycle of a project (see outline).