New slide set “Open Economics” published
Open teaching material for economic training
In the context of the growing importance of open science in economics, a freely accessible set of slides has now been published in the ZBW’s Open Economics Guide, which provides a structured introduction to the topic of “open economics”. The teaching materials are aimed in particular at lecturers and students of economics who want to familiarise themselves with the principles and practice of open science – for example with open access, open data, reproducibility, collaborative infrastructures and research software.
The slide set is the result of a community dialogue: At the Open Science Meet-up of the economics community, the explicit wish was expressed to develop supporting materials for teaching that can be integrated into existing curricula in a low-threshold and flexible manner. The slides now available address this need and offer a modular teaching programme that is suitable for both individual sessions and entire seminar formats.
The materials are now available on openeconomics.zbw.eu and have also been published as an Open Educational Resource (OER) with DOI on Zenodo. They are available under an open licence and can be freely used, adapted and distributed.
The set of slides is intended to provide concrete support for the integration of open science principles in economics education and to initiate a broader sensitisation for open science as part of good scientific practice.
URL: https://openeconomics.zbw.eu/en/teaching/
*The practical guide was written on 8 May 2025.
This text was translated on 8 May 2025 using DeeplPro.