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 … Continue reading
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#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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Boston Children’s Hospital project OPENPediatrics launches new OER resource
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 … Continue reading
OERRH OER Evidence Report 2013-2014
It gives me great pleasure to announce that OER Research Hub is now ready to release the first of its dissemination reports. The ‘OER Evidence Report 2013-2014’ brings together a range of evidence around the research hypotheses of the product … Continue reading
OER at #iNACOL14
The 9th (and to date largest) iNACOL Blended and Online Symposium has now concluded. Joining the nearly 3,000 attendees at the massive Palm Springs Convention Center, I made my way from Pueblo to Sierra via San Jacinto and Catalina, ice cream in one … Continue reading
Making OER Mainstream in Schools
<Image https://flic.kr/p/5QJnjk > (A guest post from Josie Fraser – thanks Josie!) I’m delighted to have been invited to keynote at OER15 – the Open Educational Communities annual international conference, taking place in Cardiff in April 2015. I’m very much looking forward … Continue reading
One Year On: The Journey of “Open Research”
The following blog post was originally published on School of Open’s blog on 4 November 2014. It’s now been a couple of weeks since we formally ended our four-week Open Research course on P2PU … And what a month it was! We had … Continue reading
From Chile, with love
I’m intrigued. The façade of the Universidad de Chile on Avenida Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins in Santiago displays a huge banner with a quote from Nicanor Parra, the anti-poet: “Don’t stop being a flea in the minotaur’s ear”. The university celebrates Parra’s … Continue reading
Opening Educational Practices in Scotland (OEPS) Launch
Yesterday I was in Edinburgh, Scotland for the Opening Educational Practices in Scotland (OEPS) project kick-off meeting and to run a “highly interactive session” to capture experiences and thoughts on OER and OEP in Scotland. Martin was also there, speaking … Continue reading
It’s not reuse, it’s adaptation
<Image by SPUR https://flic.kr/p/fb6bDM> Reuse of OERs is an elusive, even mythical creature, so much so that Alan Levine has compared finding it to tracking Bigfoot. David Wiley has spoken of ‘dark reuse‘, like dark matter, we assume it’s going on … Continue reading
Writing for Change: Pre-Course Survey
This post was originally published on Peer 2 Peer University’s blog on 29 September 2014. Are you participating in Peer to Peer University’s (P2PU) Writing for Change course? Did you recently complete a pre-course survey? Curious as to what the survey was … Continue reading
Where Sheila’s been this week – revisiting #OERRHub and the researcher as an API analogy
Originally posted on howsheilaseesIT:
I spent the early part of this week in Milton Keynes with the OER Research Hub team as part of the second phase of the project evaluation. When I worked with the team last year one…
Bibliography of OER, ROER and related subjects
Originally posted on Thoughts on Open Education:
During the last 4 years and with a little help of my friends (mostly @leohavemann & @ernestopriego) I collected a large (very large) list of references on OER, Open Education, Open Educational Practices,…
OER research and rapid commissioning
Originally posted on Patrina Law:
There are several unique aspects to researching the behaviour and motivations of informal learners. Examining informal learning data can allow researchers to respond more quickly and at a greater scale, than to data gathered through…
liveblog – Catherine Cronin keynote at #altc #altc2014
Originally posted on Dr. Robert Farrow:
For one day only I’m at The University of Warwick for the ALT-c conference where I’m speaking on OER Impact Map. (You can access my slides for today here.) Catherine Cronin (National University of Ireland,…
OER Research Hub: August Review
As September beckons, here’s a quick round-up of what’s been happening at the Hub over the past month: Join us to explore Open Research As you might be aware, we’ve been working on our School of Open Open Research course over the … Continue reading
Cleaning our way to a monster dataset
In February of 2013 the newly put together OERRH team completed the humongous task of creating a bank of survey questions which would be one of the main research instruments to collect data around the project’s eleven hypotheses. Bear one … Continue reading
Listen to Barbara Illowsky on the Journey of Collaborative Statistics! (Part Two)
This is the second part of an interview with Barbara Illowsky, OCWC Educator ACE Award winner, Professor of Math and Statistics at De Anza College and co-author of the OpenStax College open textbook Introductory Statistics (previously Collaborative Statistics). Read the first part of this interview to find out … Continue reading
Listen to Barbara Illowsky on the Journey of Collaborative Statistics! (Part One)
Earlier in the year I posted transcribed excerpts from an interview with OCWC Educator ACE Award winner, Professor of Math and Statistics at De Anza College and co-author of the OpenStax College open textbook Introductory Statistics (previously Collaborative Statistics) Barbara Illowsky. You can find my original post on … Continue reading
Open Knowledge Festival 2014
Earlier this week I was lucky enough to head to Berlin with colleagues Rob Farrow and Martin Weller to participate in the Open Knowledge Festival (#okfest14) Open Minds to Open Action at the amazing Kulturbrauerei… Thank to everyone we spoke to … Continue reading
The Role of OER in a New World of MOOC
Recently I attended a mini conference dedicated to Open Educational Resources (OER). I found it to be quite interesting as there aren’t many events completely dedicated to OER these days. In fact, the organizers made it quite clear that the … Continue reading
The iceberg model of OER engagement
(reblogged from Martin’s blog) I’m pretty sure I’m the first person to ever use the iceberg analogy… I’ve been pondering ways of thinking about open education awareness, and OER usage that might help shape OER policy. So here’s one I … Continue reading
Hay fevOER: a June update
It is that time of the year when I get watery eyes, a runny nose and I feel I could sneeze my way to the end of the world, but would that stop me from updating you guys on what … Continue reading
Adrienne Williams on OpenStax College Textbooks
Earlier in the week we heard from Paul Shaber on his experiences of using OpenStax College (OSC) textbooks. Today we’re going to hear from two more educators, who I was fortunate enough to speak with earlier in the year: Elise Adamson and … Continue reading
Siyavula Educator Survey Results: Impact of Using Siyavula (Part IV)
This is the final part of a four-part series of blog posts co-authored by Beck Pitt (OER Research Hub researcher) and Megan Beckett (Siyavula). You can read our posts on the Siyavula educator sample and background to the study here, … Continue reading
Some Basic Thoughts About OER Policy
Originally posted on OERSYS:
OER policy making is a hot topic, though it is still at its beginning. The 2012 OER Paris declaration recommends to “reinforce the development of strategies and policies […] for the production and use of OER…
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