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Hub Holiday Round-Up!
Yes, it’s that time of the year again! We might have been a bit quiet on the social media front recently but rest assured there’s been lots going on behind the scenes. Here’s a little round up of some of our highlights over the past year. And of course, we’d also…
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UK Open Textbooks – Survey Request
The survey for the UK Open Textbooks project is now open! https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/NKKS837 This survey is for teachers and instructors based in Further Education (FE) or Higher Education (HE) in the UK and Republic of Ireland. It is about the use of textbooks for teaching in higher or further education, and…
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OOFAT Models: interim results #EADTU #OOFHEC2017
Here are some slides which report on the interim results of the OOFAT Models project. Presented at The Online, Open and Flexible Higher Education Conference 2017: Higher Education for the Future – ‘Accelerating and Strengthening Innovation’.
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bizMOOC: ‘Learning with MOOCs for professional development’
Since the beginning of this year I’ve been working on the EU-funded bizMOOC Project, a consortium of HEIs and Industry partners from eleven European countries “to enable a European-wide exploitation of the potential of MOOCs for the world of business”. So far I’ve been mostly involved in delivering the outcomes…
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Announcing the IV Workshop on OER, La Plata, Argentina
Next October learning technologists, researchers and educational practitioners will gather in La Plata, Argentina to participate in the 12th Latin-American Conference on Learning Technologies (LACLO 2017). At the same time, as part of the main conference, we are collaborating with Tel Amiel (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil), Virginia Rodés (Universidad…
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Celebrating #YearOfOpen here at the OU!
Thanks to everyone who participated either face-to-face, or online, in last week’s OER Hub hosted celebration of all things open here at The Open University (UK)! Wednesday 20 June saw colleagues from across the University come together to share their ideas and experiences of openness as part of 2017’s #YearOfOpen international celebrations…
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Reminder: #OOFAT Survey Closes 24th June 2017
Many thanks to all those who have provided data on their teaching innovations for the OOFAT study. We have received more than 80 responses and are in the process of cleaning the data and resolving any queries. This post is to remind you that the survey will close this week…
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#YearOfOpen at The Open University (20 June). Final line-up!
Further to our earlier announcement, we’re excited to present the full line-up for tomorrow’s (20 June) #YearOfOpen event here at The Open University (OU). Join us in Jennie Lee Building (Ambient Lab) here on campus or online (via Periscope @OER_Hub or via YouTube) at 14.00-16.00BST. We’ll be celebrating openness here at…
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Celebrate #YearOfOpen at The Open University
As you’re probably aware 2017 is #YearOfOpen … a 365 day celebration of open education and the anniversary of a number of key milestones in its development, including the Cape Town Declaration, 15 years since the Budapest Open Access Initiative, and the 5th anniversary of the Paris OER Declaration. We’re excited to…
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Developing models of open, online education
The “OOFAT” project is currently looking at different models of open, online, flexible and technology-enhanced learning (OOFAT) in higher education. It’s conducted on behalf of the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE), and a key element is the desire to cover and model a wide range of activity.…