5. FAIR lesson plans

While chapter 4 introduced an approach to developing FAIR courses and elaborated on a number of relevant considerations in this respect, this chapter provides examples of lesson plans for a number of topics related to RDM and the FAIR principles. The following list of lesson plans is not exhaustive and can be updated.

List of lesson plans on RDM- and FAIR-related topics:

1. FAIR in a nutshell

2. Data management plans (DMP)

3. Documentation

4. Data creation

5. File formats

6. Metadata

7. Data standardisation and ontologies

8. Persistent identifiers (PIDs)

9. Licences, copyright and intellectual property rights (IPR) issues

10. Finding and reusing data

11. Repositories

12. Dealing with confidential, personal, sensitive & private data and ethical aspects

13. Data access

14. FAIR software/citable code

15. Research data management – overview and best practices

16. Data management and governance in industry and research

All lesson plans follow the same format (11) which includes the FAIR elements concerned, the learning outcomes, a summary of tasks/actions, material/equipment needed, references and take-home tasks. More details on the implementation of FAIR aspects, i.e. the practical application of the content taught through the lesson plans, are provided in chapter 6.

Table 8: Mapping of lesson plans to FAIR principles

Lesson	F1	F2	F3	F4	A1	A2	I1	I2	I3	R1
FAIR in a nutshell	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Data management plans	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Documentation										X
Data creation	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
File formats	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Metadata	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Data standardisation and ontologies	X				X	X	X			X
Persistent identifiers	X	X	X	X	X	X
Licences, copyright and intellectual property rights issues
Finding and reusing data										X
Repositories	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Dealing with confidential, personal, sensitive and private data and ethical aspects					X	X				X
Data access	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
FAIR software/citable code	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Research data management – overview and best practices	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Data management and governance in industry and research	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X

Table 9: Mapping of the competence profile topics to the lesson plans

Topic	Number of relevant lesson plan (number in parantheses: the plan partly addresses the topic)
General principles and concepts in data management – overview	15, (4)
Overview of data types, data type registries and data formats	(5)
Metadata, metadata formats, standards and registries	6
Open Research, Open Access, Open Data	15, (9)
Metadata management, registries and publication	(6)
Persistent Identifiers (PID), Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID), Research Organization Registry (ROR)	8
FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles in data management	1, (16)
FAIR metadata management and tools for FAIR metadata management	(6)
Databases and database management systems, data modelling	(16)
Data structures
Master data management, data dictionaries	3, (16)
FAIR data management requirements and compliance	(1)
Data management including reference and master data	(16)
Data storage and operations
Data infrastructure, data registries and data factories	(16)
Data security and protection	(12)
Data backup
Personal data protection, GDPR compliance	12, (15), (16)
Data anonymisation/pseudonymisation	12
Data management planning, FAIR data management and compliance	2, (1), (15), (16)
Data integration and interoperability, data preparation and cleaning	7
Data interoperability and metadata management	(7)
Organisational roles in data governance, data stewardship	(15),(16)
Data provenance, data lineage	(8)
Responsible data use, data privacy, ethical principles, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and legal issues	12, (15)
Data quality management, best practices and frameworks, data quality metrics	(2)
Data protection policies (including personal data), data access policies, GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) compliance	12, 13
Trusted data repositories and certification	11
Data discovery (published data), data selection and use in research	10
Research data lifecycle	(4)
Ontologies and controlled vocabularies	7

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(11) The lesson plan template used here is based on this template: https://www.class-templates.com/support-files/lpt_word_001-printable_lesson_plan_template.pdf

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