{"id":8299,"date":"2019-08-01T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T09:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/?p=8299"},"modified":"2019-08-01T09:23:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T09:23:01","slug":"evaluating-contemporary-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/?p=8299","title":{"rendered":"Evaluating contemporary science"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8302\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8302\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/786px-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"Assessing contemporary science\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/786px-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/786px-150x76.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/786px-768x391.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/786px-624x318.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/786px.jpg 786w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.edu\/openlearn\/science-maths-technology\/assessing-contemporary-science\/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Assessing contemporary science<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Effective communication is at the heart of good science.  For as long as humans have tried to understand the natural world they have shared information and ideas, with a view to improving our collective understanding.  <\/p>\n<p>With the widespread adoption of digital tools for communication the potential for citizens to contribute to the sciences has never been greater.  <\/p>\n<p>The Open University has recently published a new Open Learn course that will help you to explore the evolving landscape of science communication, developing skills in critical evaluation, communication and engagement, whilst exploring a range of contemporary topics in science.  <\/p>\n<p>You can access the course here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.edu\/openlearn\/science-maths-technology\/assessing-contemporary-science\/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Assessing Contemporary Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A longer version of these materials is available as an Open University module: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/courses\/modules\/s350\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Evaluating contemporary science<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective communication is at the heart of good science. For as long as humans have tried to understand the natural world they have shared information and ideas, with a view to improving our collective understanding. With the widespread adoption of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/?p=8299\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8299"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8305,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299\/revisions\/8305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}