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      <h1 class="western">The Scientific Method - an online course</h1>
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      <p>There is often a disconnect between education in scientific methods and
        its use in practice. As a result, students find it difficult to apply
        the methods later on. Wageningen University has developed a modular
        online course that aims to bridge the gap between learning and
        application. The development was financed by the Dutch Ministry of
        Education under the<a href="https://www.surf.nl/files/2019-03/factheet-the-scientific-method---learning-by-doing.pdf">Open
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          Online Education incentive scheme</a> and Wageningen University.</p>
      <p>The course and all materials therein are made available under the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">Creative
          Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
          License,</a> </p>
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              <h3>The course at EdX-Edge</h3>
              <p>A public version of the course is available for every one to
                view. This course will be regularly updated when we update our
                own course. Upon updating, any student input will be reset. If
                you are interested in taking this course, or getting a copy for
                yourself to work with, please contact us.</p>
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              <h3>Setup of the course</h3>
              <p>Various perspectives on the scientific method are tightly
                integrated in this course: philosophy of science, the
                methodology of research and the application in a science domain.</p>
              <p> <a href="course_setup.html" class="btn btn-primary">Setup of
                  the course</a> </p>
              <p> <a href="documents/Scientific_method_paths.xlsx" class="btn btn-primary">Course
                  structure (xlsx)</a></p>
              <p> <a href="documents/Scientific_method_paths.ods" class="btn btn-primary">Course
                  structure (ods)</a></p>
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              <h3>Virtual laboratory - CLASS model</h3>
              <p>To allow students to practice with the scientific method, they
                use a conceptual model for the atmospheric boundary layer: the
                CLASS model. </p>
              <p> <a href="https://github.com/classmodel/modelgui/releases" class="btn btn-primary">Download</a>
                <a href="https://classmodel.github.io" class="btn btn-primary">Website
                  CLASS</a> </p>
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              <h3>Virtual laboratory - CLASS-notebook</h3>
              <p>To bring the course completely online, the development of an
                online version of the CLASS model was envisioned (in the form of
                a Jupyter notebook). The notebook version has not been used in
                the course, but a prototype version is publicly available (and
                under development).</p>
              <p> <a href="class-notebook.html" class="btn btn-primary">CLASS-notebook
                  info</a></p>
              <p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="https://github.com/scientific-method-course/course-files/tree/master/class-notebook">Github</a>
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              <h3>User manual</h3>
              <p>The current course is intended to be re-used by others. The
                user manual covers two aspects of that re-use: use of the
                material to develop an own course for a different discipline,
                use of the course to teach.</p>
              <p> <a href="documents/Course_manual_METEOx.pdf" class="btn btn-primary">User
                  manual</a> </p>
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              <h3>Videos in the course</h3>
              <p>The course contains videos with various functions: to introduce
                the course and the six modules, to explain the personal science
                checklist, to introduce concepts related to the atmospheric
                boundary layer, and to instruct students on the use of the
                virtual laboratory.</p>
              <p> <a href="videos.html" class="btn btn-primary">Videos</a></p>
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              <h3>Re-usable material</h3>
              <p>The course contains a range of material that could be re-usable
                in other courses (be it online of otherwise)</p>
              <p> <a href="materials.html" class="btn btn-primary">Materials</a></p>
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              <h3>The team</h3>
              <p>The design and implementation of this course was a team effort. Please meet the team members.</p>
              <p> <a href="team.html" class="btn btn-primary">Meet the team!</a></p>
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