Page - ix - in Radical Solutions and Open Science - An Open Approach to Boost Higher Education

Introduction RadicalSolutions&OpenScience:AnOpenApproachToBoostHigherEducation is the 2ndBook in aTrilogy of texts that presents radical, innovative solutions for recurring issues in higher education. Every book is focused on a keymajor field, and each chapter presents a thorough state-of-the-art exploration in a specific topic. The aim of the Trilogy is to provide useful and timely assistance to university professors, researchers, policymakers and students to understand current and potential future challenges in higher education. This secondbookhas a focusonopen science as apowerful tool to advanceour thinking and practice in learning and teaching and research. It provides an oppor- tunity for the reader to take time to thinkdeeplyabout theconceptsofopennessand how they are appliedmore broadly. Specifically, the impact across numerous areas such as policy, accreditation, ethics, certification, content, research, data, technol- ogy and access to cite just a few. Severalwell-knownauthors in thefieldwereasked tocontribute to thisbookand theirworkhasundergonepeer scrutiny to assure the reader of thevalue andquality of the chapters presented here. Chapter 1 byWeller debates themeaning of openness andwhether there is any crossover in definitions and practices. Chapter 2 by Stracke has focussed on open science. Presenting an overview of how open science can be represented across three science dimensions of research design, processes andpublications.Chapter 3 is presentedbyGriffithswhohas a focusonethics andouruseofdata inourhigher education institutions.Agreat debate around the erosion ofwhat institutionsmight call ‘ethical waivers’ for educational improvement. But, the chapter questions whether this partial erosion is, in fact, ethical. The focus ofChap. 4 byAffouneh comes fromPalestine and takes an important angleonthebasichumanright foraccess toducation.WhilstAmieletal., inChap.5, debates the political consequences of receiving funding of open educational resources, imploring the reader to question how neutral or apolitical funding is or else awarning aboutmisalignment or—worse—suffering the consequences. Burgos, in Chap. 6, has a focus on research impact and the ways in which researchers go beyond the typical development of patents, products, etc. and that ix