Author: Simone Arthur
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OER Research Hub Celebrates Open Research Award
Celebrating ‘excellence’ was the highlight for the OER Research Hub project when they attended the OCWC conference in Slovenia – April 23-25. The project was selected as the recipient of the 2014 Open Research Award of Excellence (ACE) in recognition of “continued efforts to promote the importance of online and open education…
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Is There a Gender Divide Around OER and Educational Technology?
The month of March has been a memorable one for our project – it was all about celebration! Like the rest of the OER community we joined in the fun of Open Education Week to help raise awareness of the global Open Education movement and its impact on teaching and learning.…
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In the OERRH Spotlight- OER Impact Map
Today’s Open Education Week focus at the OER Research Hub (OERRH) is on our OER Impact Map. This Map helps our project aggregate and filter data that relates to our research hypotheses.The concept of the Impact Map (formerly called the OERRH Evidence Hub) has been popular with members of the OER…
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In the OERRH spotlight- Flipped Learning
Today’s Open Education Week focus at the OER Research Hub (OERRH) is on Flipped Learning. One of the OERRH’s research collaborations is the Flipped Learning Network (FLN), a community of teachers whose mission is ‘to provide educators with the knowledge, skills and resources to successfully implement Flipped Learning’. Together, we have been working…
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Open Education Week Spotlight – Librarians!
Today’s Open Education Week focus at the OER Research Hub is on Librarians. The OER Research Hub has been working over the last few months with members of the Co-PILOT project (which promotes “digital and information literacy” open resources for use in Higher Education) to help understand more about librarians’ use and promotion of…
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Celebrating Open Education Week
Today marks the start of Open Education Week. The week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning. Throughout this week our OER Research Hub project will provide you with an overview of the field and…
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OER Impact Map Creates Buzz at OU's Learn About Fair
What is it about the OER Impact Map that creates so much interest among OER colleagues? I have been pondering this very question ever since it generated quite a buzz at its mini launch at Open Ed 13. One thing that’s for sure is that there seems to be an…
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OER Research Hub says farewell to project manager Claire Walker, and hello to new PM Natalie Eggleston
The OER Research Hub would like to extend best wishes to our project manager, Claire Walker, as she takes up a new role in The OU’s Centre for Inclusion and Collaborative Partnerships (CICP). Claire will now be managing a project around the Accreditation of Prior Learning across the university. Her…
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OER Research Hub welcomes Open Fellows and visitors from collaborations
The OERRH has started off 2014 with an exciting visitors programme. Open Fellows Giselle Ferreira; Alannah Fitzgerald and Megan Beckett will be with us at various times throughout January. Giselle is an Adjunct Professor at the Post-Graduate Programme in Education of the University Estácio de Sá, Rio de Janeiro, where…
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OER Research Hub: Our first year in review (2012-2013)
Our OER Research Hub project began its first year probably the same way most research projects do –new staff establishing themselves into their new roles; developing key project management documents that would outline the framework of how the project would flow; developing of a research framework that would guide how…