Free and Open Source Software for Open Science

Programming Experiments

PsychoPy - a free, powerful alternative to Presentation™ or e-Prime™, written in Python
OpenSesame - Another free experiment presentation software. Very similar to PsychoPy, but does not work on all Macs.

Animation / Video

Open Broadcasting System - Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming
av package for R - The av Package: Production Quality Video in R (blog)

Images

Canava - for making infographics and posters
imagemagick - command-line tools for image processing
GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) - powerful alternative to Adobe Photoshop

Class Interaction

Sli.do - Audience interaction software. Free version gives 3 polls and is is very easy and intuitive to use (GDPR compliant at time of writing)
Padlet - collaborative workspaces/notice boards. The free version gives 12 padlets, but they can be reused (GDPR compliant at time of writing)

Building tutorials

learnr - Develop online tutorials implemented using the shiny platform for web apps
webex - Develop web tutorials as standalone HTML files

Bookdown styles for textbooks

#psyteachr style - The bookdown style used by #psyteachr, which includes HTML webex widgets
msmbstyle style - A style inspired by the Tufte handout design, created by Mike Smith

Exams and coursework

assessr - Generate and assess R assignments in RMarkdown (in development)
flexTeaching - Use RStudio flexdashboards to create random stats assignments
generate-exam - Generate a formatted exam from a CSV of questions
exams - Generate exams/quizzes/tests in a variety of formats
markr - Generating exam and assessment feedback reports (in development)