Tag: oer research
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CFP: Research in Underexamined Areas of Open Educational Resources
There’s a new call for papers at https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/10988/research-in-underexamined-areas-of-open-educational-resources which may be of interest to readers of the blog. Part of the framing for this work is the need to transcend studies which concentrate on cost savings and efficacy in favour of non-Western perspectives and innovative methods. There is also an…
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Global OER Graduate Network 2018 Seminar Report #go_gn
Here’s a report on this year’s GO-GN workshops from Bea de los Arcos, reblogged from http://go-gn.net/go-gn/what-happened-when-we-put-14-phd-researchers-inside-an-ikea-hotel/. Check out the website for more information about doctoral research into open education taking place around the world: Tuko Panoja! After Cape Town in 2013 and 2017, Ljubljana and Washington in 2014, Banff in 2015…
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OER Hub: An Introduction
Here are the slides from today’s presentation at OpenTEL at The Open University (UK). This presentation is a quick introduction to the work of our group and our current projects. OER Hub: An Overview from OER Hub
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JIME: OER15 Special Collection
The latest issue of the Journal of Interactive Media in Education (JiME) is now out! Guest-edited by myself and the lovely Bea de los Arcos, the issue brings together outstanding papers from last year’s OER15 conference in Cardiff, Wales. The OER15 conference marked the first one under the remit of the…
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The Open Research Agenda (2)
[fusion_text]Back in March we shared the preliminary results of our consultation exercise we are calling The Open Research Agenda. Since then we have presented these findings and run seminars at two major open education conferences – OER16 and Open Education Global. Future presentations will take place at the CALRG Annual…
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The Open Research Agenda (1)
As we look forward to Open Education Week it’s time to share the first round of results of our ‘Open Research Agenda’ consultation exercise. The idea behind this is to try to bring a developed conversation to conferences rather than having interesting discussions that tail off after an event. We’re also…
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Who are the open learners?
Another OER Hub publication goes live today, this time at EURODL. This time the subject is non-formal learners: who they are and how they use open resources to structure and progress their own study. You can (openly) access the HTML version at http://www.eurodl.org/?p=current&article=707 and download the PDF directly from http://www.eurodl.org/materials/contrib/2015/Farrow_et_al.pdf. Here’s the…
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The Impact of OER on Teaching and Learning Practice
OER Hub has a new publication out with Open Praxis. ‘The Impact of OER on Teaching and Learning Practice‘ provides an overview of some key findings from the OER Research Hub project. The findings reveal a set of direct impacts, including an increase in factors relating to student performance, increased reflection…
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#liveblog: Researching OER in the open
Here’s a live blog summary of Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams‘ presentation from Open Education 2015 on the progress of the ROER4D project (86 researchers across 26 countries). Cheryl began by describing the federated and distributed nature of their project, as well as some of the challenges faced by their researchers in the Global…
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OER Hub Data Report 2013-2015
The OER Hub team are in Vancouver for Open Education 2015 and it’s a good opportunity to release another report based on the huge amounts of data we have collected on how people use and think about OER. This report brings together shorter releases from over the summer where we…