Open Educational Resource (OER)

Title

Target audience: University students (BSc, MSc), interested laypeople, scientists from other fields

Discipline: Earth sciences, geoscience, Evolutionary biology

Usage

File formats and editing

Text and presentation files are provided as Quarto files. This is an open source publishing format based on markdown. Quarto files can be edited using text editors and IDEs such as R Studio and rendered to any format: docx, pdf, html. You can preview the contents of the OER directly on GitHub in files with .md extension and .html files are provided in the Zenodo repository.

If you would like to edit the OER and export it e.g. to Word or PDF, you can do it in three ways.

1. Edit .html files provided on Zenodo

2. Edit and render Quarto files

   First, clone the repository.

   • Open the file in R Studio, set the following line to your preferred format, e.g.:

   format: pdf
   

   And click Render.

   • Change the line as above using any text editor and use Quarto CLI to render it:

   quarto render
   

Contents

How to contribute

If you would like to contribute to this OER, please see CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

Please see LICENSE.md

Author

Emilia Jarochowska
Utrecht University
email: e.b.jarochowska [at] uu.nl
Web page: www.uu.nl/staff/EBJarochowska
ORCID: 0000-0001-8937-9405

Copyright

Copyright 2023 Utrecht University