The Challenge of OER Sustainability

Originally posted on Open World:
Sustaining the outputs of projects and programmes beyond their initial phase of funding is a weel kent problem but it is one that we still struggle to solve. Back in 2009 when Cetis were working…

Open Research 2015 Panel Session: 8 October 2015

It’s come round quick but next week is the FINAL facilitated week of this year’s Open Research course on P2PU. We’ve had a blast meeting you all and reading your comments, suggestions and experiences so far. Thank you! To celebrate …

Data Report 2013-2015: Educators

This post follows the release of Data Report 2013-2015: Informal Learners and Data Report 2013-2015: Formal Learners To recap: In 2013 the Hewlett-funded OER Research Hub Project created a bank of survey questions to test eleven hypotheses related to the impact of OER use …

Data Report 2013-2015: Formal Learners

This post follows the release last week of our data report focusing on informal learners’ use of OER. To recap: In 2013 the Hewlett-funded OER Research Hub Project created a bank of survey questions to test eleven hypotheses related to the impact of OER …

Data Report 2013-2015: Informal Learners

In 2013 the Hewlett-funded OER Research Hub Project created a bank of survey questions to test eleven hypotheses related to the impact of OER use on teaching and learning. In the two years that followed, a number of bespoke surveys …

Future direction of the OER Research Hub

The OER Hub team prepare for launch July marked the end of the initial phase of the OER Research Hub. It’s been a great three years, and Beck has pulled out some of the highlights. But what next, you are all …

Open Research 2015 Launches for Sign-Up!

At the beginning of August I blogged about the return of our award winning open research course on P2PU’s School of Open this Fall. Well, I’m excited to announce that the course is now live and will run from Monday 14 …

It’s here! Open Research Redux

Last year we received an amazing response to the launch of our first open course Open Research on P2PU’s School of Open. 139 of you, from at least 29 different countries across six continents, signed up to participate in the first iteration of our …

Hub Highlights

As we move forward to our next phase as the Open Research Centre, it’s time to take a quick look at some of our “Hub Highlights” from the past 2.5 years: With over 7,000 respondents spread across 182 countries, our …

Summer 2015 News

Well, spring has definitely turned to summer here in Milton Keynes … which means it’s time for the latest round up of what’s been happening across the project! The OER World Map project continues to make progress, with v0.2 scheduled …

Spring news

As I’m left to hold the fort at Milton Keynes headquarters while half the team relax in far away lands where the breeze brings no tidings of OER, I diligently take a break from academic writing to share with you …

#OER Research findings #oeglobal 2015

It’s the morning of day two of Open Education Global 2015 and the team (that is, Bea) will be presenting some of our latest research findings in the Black Bear room at 10.30am.  In case you can’t make it, here …

Launch of OERRH Survey Data Explorer #oeglobal

The OER Research Hub team are at OE Global in Banff, Canada this week, and it seems like a great opportunity to launch the prototype tool we have developed to help people navigate some of our open results.  We’ve been …

Call for OER Stories

Originally posted on OER World Map Blog:
As reported earlier Rob and Felix hosted a session about the OER World Map project at an unconference which was part of the Hewlett Grantees Meeting in Sausalito last month. One of the…

Go West: #OER15 Calling!

Next week team OER Hub will be Westward bound as we head to Cardiff, Wales for OER15! This year’s conference is focused on “Mainstreaming Open Education” and will be held at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama on Tuesday 14 and …

From believer to dOER

Well worth a read is this post by Rajiv Jhangiani, Director of the Social and Political Cognition Lab at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and Faculty Fellow with the BC Campus Open Textbook Project. Rajiv has been working with Beck Pitt on faculty …

OER in schools

Despite great initiatives like the DigiLit Leicester project on these shores and K12 OER Collaborative in the US, OER folks’ attention does not focus often enough on the K-12/school scene. TJ Bliss writes “If we want OER to become the …

Where does project management fit in an Open Research Project

In some ways I have been a silent partner within the OER Research Hub team. They have asked me on many occasions to contribute to this blog and share the experience of constructing and managing an open education research project. …

2015 so far… January and February review

Project Update It may seem a little quiet here at the Hub of late but rest assured we’re hard at work behind the scenes! Since the new year we’ve been particularly focused on writing up our research for journal publication. …

USQ Open Textbook Initiative

Originally posted on The Weblog of (a) David Jones:
My institution has some grants available to produce open textbooks. The following is an attempt to develop an interesting idea that might be funded by such a grant. This is a…

Mark the Date! Open Education Week (9-13 March 2015)

With just over a month to go, Open Education Week is fast approaching! Una Daly from the Open Education Consortium (OEC) tells us more: “Open Education Week (March 9-13, 2015) in its 4th annual year is an online celebration of the …

OER Research Hub wins Engaging Research Award!

The OER Research Hub is proud to announce that we were awarded an Open University Engaging Research Award 2015 for our P2PU Open Research course on School of Open today! The four-week course explored the concept and practice of open …

Boston Children’s Hospital project OPENPediatrics launches new OER resource

World’s biggest pan-India OER use survey goes live in English and Hindi

Originally posted on The art of open research:
Teaching resources created by trainee teachers in Uttar Pradesh. Photo credit: Leigh-Anne Perryman CC-BY-SA Today sees the launch of the biggest ever survey of open educational resources (OER) use in India –…

Double Feature! November and December at the Hub

Team Hub wishes all its supporters, collaborators and friends all the very best for the forthcoming festivities and 2015! It’s been an amazing year and thank you for your continued support; we couldn’t do it without you all. We’ve had a …

Dec 10: OER Research with Librarians and Open Textbook Adoption

Originally posted on Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources:
Have you been asked by your college administration or colleagues about open textbook usage and perceptions? Recent studies have shown that awareness and usage of OER by faculty is not…

Putting a pin in a map: Mapping evidence from OERRH Research Hub surveys

As part of the OER Research Hub the community has been asked to respond to surveys examining OER awareness and usage. This has been done using the online web service SurveyMonkey. One of the features of SurveyMonkey is to record …

Ethics, Openness and the Future of Education

By popular demand, here are my slides from today’s presentation at Open Education 2014.  All feedback welcome and if this subject is of interest to you then consider checking out the OERRH Ethics Manual and the section on ethics (week …

Community Session: Open Education Handbook

The Open Education Working Group will be participating in an Open Knowledge Community session entitled Presenting the Open Education Handbook. The session will take place online on Thursday Dec 11, 2014 – 10.00-11.00AM UTC, with a link to be shared …