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Snapshot of the TAACCCT OER Community Pt.1
What’s happening inside the world’s largest OER project? What patterns exist among grantee projects in their use and attitudes of OER and proprietary content? This blog post summarizes initial results of a survey conducted in February and March of 2014, exploring knowledge areas and use patterns of Open Educational Resources…
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Storify: OER Research Hub at OCWC Global 2014
The 2014 OCWC Global conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, was an eventful one for the OER Research Hub. This Storify presents a selection of tweets tracking the high points of the conference for the OER Research Hub team. The storify also has links to the presentations made by OER Research Hub researchers.…
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#oer14 Liveblog – #oer14panel
Coming to you live from Newcastle, UK, I’m going to live-blog the panel discussion. Questions will be in italics and answers in regular text (by initial). The participants are: Allison Littlejohn, Glasgow Caledonian University Mike Sharples, The Open University Jonathan Worth, Coventry University Torie Eva, Pearson Alan Levine, CogDog IT…
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A Grand Tour of OER Policy #OER14
Hot off the press ahead of our presentation today here are the slides that myself and OER Research Hub fellow Sara Frank Bristow have put together on global OER policy and the ways that the OER Policy Map might help us to work out what’s going on… feedback welcome!
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Research on TESS-India localisation reported at OCWC Global 2014
OER ResearchHub Fellow Leigh-Anne Perryman, TESS-India Technical Director Tim Seal and TESS-India Researcher Alison Hemmings-Buckler presented a paper on OER localisation at the OCWC Global conference in LjubLjana, Slovenia this week. Here are our slides. The presentation notes are here.
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Interview with UMUC's Karen Vignare at OCWC 2014
On Thursday I had the privilege of chatting with Karen Vignare, Associate Provost at University of Maryland University College (UMUC) here at OCWC in Ljubljana, Slovenia. During Wednesday’s conference presentation, Karen told us more about how UMUC are moving toward an 100% e-resources/OER model by the end of 2016. In Spring/Summer 2013 alone,…
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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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OER Impact: Collaboration, Evidence, Synthesis
The OER ResearchHub researchers are presently in LjubLjana, Slovenia for the the OCWC Global conference. I’ll be speaking this afternoon and these are the slides I’ll be using… feedback welcome!
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New technologies and open educational resources
A recent consultation report by the European Parliament falls short of any declaration of support for OER but can definitely be seen as an acknowledgement of the growing OER movement and its building influence.
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Textbook Heroes at CNX2014
Two weeks ago I was participating in CNX2014 at Rice University, Houston. Although I was mainly tweeting from the conference, I did take a few notes which I’ve reproduced below. These notes focus only on Monday’s sessions so, for a more detailed and varied account of what happened, check out the conference hashtag…