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Udacity: From Reinventing Education to Reinventing Science
Andrés At Udacity, we’re constantly inspired by seeing others work to broaden access to education and information. We want to share a great note from Andrés, a Physics PhD student who writes that Udacity’s “effort to reinvent education is an inspiration for me to try to reinvent science.” He elaborates by sharing thoughts on his journey in opening access to information as a PhD student: The way we do science hasn't changed much in the last 300 years. We live still in a publish or perish paradigm in which almost the only valuable scientific contribution to the world is a published journal article (behind a steep paywall, of course). But there's a wealth of useful information unfit for such publications that we could share, reuse and profit from. While making my own research for my PhD I wanted to have a written record of everything I do, all the ideas (good and bad), discussions, datasets, source code, plots, etc. so I could share them…