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Creative Commons Licenses for Flipped Educators
Last September, when Kari Arfstrom visited Milton Keynes as an OERRHub fellow, we talked about creating an infographic for flipped educators that would explain in a simple and engaging manner how to use Creative Commons Licenses. Last January, when Jon Bergmann and Aaron Sams visited Milton Keynes en route to…
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Reports from MOOC Research Hub
An exciting new potential source of data came my way this morning as some of my notification services picked up on the reports that have been published as part of MOOC Research Hub, an initiative funded by the Gates Foundation and based at Athabasca University. They bring together work from a…
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Coming Soon… Open Textbook Research Week
Some of you may have participated in the recent open textbook webinar (The Impact of Open Textbooks in the USA and South Africa: When? Why? How?) where I co-presented some of the findings of our recent educator surveys with open fellow Megan Beckett (Siyavula) and linked fellow Daniel Williamson (OpenStax College, OSC). The webinar was…
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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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Maricopa OER Practitioners: David Weaver
creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog As part of my fellowship for the OER Research Hub at the Open University I am sharing these excerpts from conversations about OER use/creation recorded in April 2014 with faculty at the Maricopa Community Colleges. This is the third…
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Maricopa OER Practitioners: Sian Proctor
As part of my fellowship for the OER Research Hub at the Open University I am sharing these excerpts from conversations about OER use/creation recorded in April 2014 with faculty at the Maricopa Community Colleges. creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Sian Proctor teaches Geology…
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Maricopa OER Practitioners: James Sousa
As part of my fellowship for the OER Research Hub at the Open University I am sharing these excerpts from conversations about OER use/creation recorded in April 2014 with faculty at the Maricopa Community Colleges. James Sousa, a mathematics faculty at Phoenix College, has quietly produced an impressive collection of…
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Starting the OU Speed Fellowship
creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Yes, as promised, I have confirmed that Milton Keynes has plenty of roundabouts, but more importantly, I am here as a (brief) fellow at the Open University, for the OER Research Hub project. I had some grandiose plans of…
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May Update: What's new at the Hub?
The weather may have cooled down since Bea’s review of our activity in April, but it’s been another scorcher of a month here at the OER Research Hub (OERRH) during May… Visitors Fresh back from OER14 in Newcastle, we were honoured to host our final open fellow, Alan Levine, here at the…