Author: mhawksey
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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 additional information about who is responding to the survey as…
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The OER Survey Exploratoratorium
Exploratory visualization – Data visualizations that are used by the designer for self-informative purposes to discover patterns, trends, or sub-problems in a dataset. Exploratory visualizations typically don’t have an already-known story. Iliinsky & Steele, 2011 There is a certain power from letting people explore a dataset, many eyes having the…
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OER Impact Map(s): Studio tour
My dad turns 65 this weekend and whilst he should be retiring he’s not and will be still pottering about in the village shop he runs. My dad hasn’t always been a shopkeeper, instead spending most of his life working as a land surveyor. Land surveyors were traditionally key members…
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OER Impact Map: Rankings and recommendations are open
Clements and Pawlowski’s (2012, p. 9) survey-based study of secondary school teachers’ attitudes towards OER quality identifies several selection indicators involved in survey respondents’ choice of OER … They conclude that, in addition to quality instruments such as rankings and recommendations, trust is a common feature amongst these selection indicators…
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Using WordPress for research data collection and visualization
At the beginning of my contribution to the OU’s OER Research Hub project it was interesting to see a post by Martha Burtis (University of Mary Washington) on WordPress as a Data Collection Tool. There are a number of parallels between the work Martha has been doing and the OER Research…
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Building an evidence hub plugin for WordPress
I was recently contracted by the Open University to experiment with a solution to record and display evidence for the research hypotheses. Speaking to the project team a number of options were discussed from simple spreadsheet based approaches to re-purposing software versioning systems like Github. In the end it was…