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Reblog: Three key issues about Open Educational Resources (OERs)
OER Research Hub has been blogged on Learning About eLearning…
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OER Fellowship: Lenses on the Landscape of Open Education
Image by Billy Meinke Attribution 4.0 International / CC BY 4.0 During the final two weeks of February, I spent time with the research team at the OER Research Hub at The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. Supported by the Hewlett Foundation, the fellowship program brought in researchers working…
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Open Research: OER Research Hub Course Launches June 2014!
What is open research? In what ways can research be open? What do we mean by open in this context? When is it appropriate for research to be open? What does researching openly involve and what makes open research possible? What are the benefits of open research? What kinds of challenges…
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ROER4D: OER Impact in the Global South
This afternoon the OER Research Hub team had an interesting conference call with ROER4D, an OER research project with some similarities to our own which is based in Cape Town, South Africa. They are working across South America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Cental and South East Asia to meet the following…
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School of Open: Research Findings (Part II)
Earlier in the week I reported on the preliminary Autumn 2013 pre-course questionnaire results of the work we’ve been doing with School of Open (SOO) over the past year. In this blog post, I’m focusing on the preliminary results of the post-course questionnaire. We received a total of 22 responses from participants in two out of the four…
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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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The Scottish Open Education Declaration
Scottish followers (and others) are likely to be interested in this crowd-sourced statement of principle which attempts to build on the Paris OER Declaration of 2012. It expresses support for open education at all levels of governance in order to build a complete ecosystem for open education.
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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…