Author: Rob Farrow
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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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The State of Open Research, and of Research on Open
Martin Weller, Rob Farrow and Beck Pitt are guests of Thompson Rivers University this week, where they are taking part in the Opening Up TRU event. As part of this, Rob and Beck took part in a panel discussion on Open Research with David Kernohan, Vivian Rolfe and Tannis Morgan.…
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#liveblog Panel: Increasing OER adoption in a community of practice #opened15
This panel brings together experts from the community college sector in the USA: Una Daly (UD); Preston Davies (PD); Quill West (QW), Christie Fierro (CF) and James Glapa-Grossklag (JGG). Many of the panel are involved in both the Open Education Consortium and The Community College Consortium for OER (which was…
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Slides: Who are the Open Learners? #opened15
Here are my slides from today’s presentation at Open Education 2015. As ever, all feedback welcome! Who are the open learners? A comparative study profiling non-formal users of open educational resources from Robert Farrow
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#liveblog Supporting Open Textbook Adoption in British Columbia
Mary Burgress and David Port are kicking things off on the final day of Open Education 2015 with their keynote on open textbook adoption in BC – time for a liveblog! The idea of the presentation is to tell the story of the project as well as to honour those…
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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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Sketchnote: Openness and the Future of Post-Secondary Education #opened15
OER Hub research doyenne Beck Pitt presents this interpretation of the first keynote of the conference.
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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…
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Honest and reliable Open Access Journals in Open and Distance Education
As part of Open Access Week, Javiera Atenas has shared the following list of open journals that have good quality control and editorial boards that are respected. If you’re committed to open access publication but also under pressure to publish in high quality journals this could be a place to…
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OER World Map Project Interim Report
You can read an update on the latest developments of the OER World Map project, which is introducing new functionality all the time. Remember – the project is seeking country champions, strategic partners and those who would like to share their stories of OER use and impact from around the world……