Author: Beck Pitt
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#OWLTEH18 and #MozFest18
October saw the Hub team head Stateside to present and contribute to #OpenEd18 in Niagara Falls, USA before rounding up the month by participating in both MozFest, the Mozilla Foundation annual festival in London, and a Mozfest fringe event at The Coventry Transport Museum. The fringe event – Learning On/With The Open Web – was…
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Hub Holiday Round-Up!
Yes, it’s that time of the year again! We might have been a bit quiet on the social media front recently but rest assured there’s been lots going on behind the scenes. Here’s a little round up of some of our highlights over the past year. And of course, we’d also…
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Celebrating #YearOfOpen here at the OU!
Thanks to everyone who participated either face-to-face, or online, in last week’s OER Hub hosted celebration of all things open here at The Open University (UK)! Wednesday 20 June saw colleagues from across the University come together to share their ideas and experiences of openness as part of 2017’s #YearOfOpen international celebrations…
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#YearOfOpen at The Open University (20 June). Final line-up!
Further to our earlier announcement, we’re excited to present the full line-up for tomorrow’s (20 June) #YearOfOpen event here at The Open University (OU). Join us in Jennie Lee Building (Ambient Lab) here on campus or online (via Periscope @OER_Hub or via YouTube) at 14.00-16.00BST. We’ll be celebrating openness here at…
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Celebrate #YearOfOpen at The Open University
As you’re probably aware 2017 is #YearOfOpen … a 365 day celebration of open education and the anniversary of a number of key milestones in its development, including the Cape Town Declaration, 15 years since the Budapest Open Access Initiative, and the 5th anniversary of the Paris OER Declaration. We’re excited to…
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The Hub in Review 2016
With the end of 2016 fast approaching, the OER Hub team would like to both thank you for your support over the past year and wish you all a peaceful and enjoyable holiday season. Here’s to a great year ahead! As we look forward we’re also taking a moment to…
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OER Hub Researcher Toolkit Out Now!
Way back during the first phase of the Hub we released all our tools and methodologies in the open for reuse and review by other researchers. We are delighted to hear that they have been of use to others when planning their own research on the impact of open education. However,…
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Twitter 101 Workshop
On 26 October 2016, as part of Open Access week, we held the first of our face-to-face workshops at The Open University (UK) … Twitter 101! As the name implies, the workshop was aimed at people who are new to microblogging with Twitter. We kicked off by looking at some Twitter basics and explored…
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Open Research Open Textbook Out Now!
We are super excited to announce that a new open textbook version of our award winning course Open Research is out now! Hosted on the awesome Pressbooks this new textbook edition builds on our earlier facilitated versions of the course by including group activities and incorporating participant contributions into new activity commentary sections. You can now…
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What’s new at the Hub this Fall?
With the academic year beginning and the nights drawing in (well, here in the UK at least) it’s a good time to share with you what we’ve been up to and where we’ll be over the coming few months. First up, keep your eyes peeled for the promised Fall launch…