UC OSPO Network education resources
Citation
UC OSPO Network. “Open source learning for research and teaching.” Web page, no date. https://ucospo.net/education/. Read 2026-10-29.
Bottom line
- The UC OSPO Network curates 43 free lessons on open source for researchers, developers, librarians and instructors.
- The network describes the lessons. Other organizations host them.
- Find partners who already teach, and make their material available. CalCompute does not build the course material itself.
Background
The UC OSPO Network is the collaboration of the open source program offices of six UC campuses.
Key claims
- “Explore 43 free lessons curated by the UC OSPO Network for researchers, developers, maintainers, project leads, librarians, and instructors.” (page head)
- “43 curated resources · 14 standards-informed topics · Six UC campuses · Workshops, courses, and practical guides” (page head)
- “We curate and describe these resources — the original organizations host and maintain the lessons themselves.” (page head)
- Topics include “version control, licensing and reuse, testing and automation, security and supply chains, governance, sustainability, research software”. (page body)
Evidence and method
A catalog page. It gives counts and topics. It gives no use data or outcomes.
Limits
- The page is short (307 words). The full catalog is on a page that needs JavaScript (
/education/lessons), not downloaded. - No date.