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School of Open: Research Findings (Part I)
Ever wondered what it means to “be” open? Or what kind of practices could be considered open? School of Open (SOO) courses focus on a variety of aspects of openness (from understanding copyright in different contexts, to open licensing and what open science is) and offer the opportunity to share, participate and create in…
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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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What we've been up to in February
An update on what the OERRHub team has been up to in February. We kicked off the month with two away days where we discussed the work ahead of us: we are now at a crucial stage of the project so it was important to sit together and set definite…
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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 + Open Badges
2013 was a year of tremendous growth for Mozilla’s Open Badges. We launched OBI 1.0. We worked with other terrific organizations to build and launch the first city-wide badge initiative, Chicago Summer of Learning. Along with other partners such as MacArthur and HASTAC, we made a 3 year commitment at Clinton…
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OER Impact Map now open for contributions
I’m pleased to announce the latest addition to the OER Impact Map which now has an outward-facing user interface for entering data. The URL for the entry form is http://chaos.open.ac.uk/submit/. From here you can select which hypothesis your evidence relates to; add a geocode; and tag sectors. Once this information is…
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OER Impact Map: Rankings and recommendations are open
Clements and Pawlowski’s (2012, p. 9) survey-based study of secondary school teachers’ attitudes towards OER quality identifies several selection indicators involved in survey respondents’ choice of OER … They conclude that, in addition to quality instruments such as rankings and recommendations, trust is a common feature amongst these selection indicators…
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A search guide for quality OER
I wonder how useful people find this kind of Amazon style ratings system for OER…
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OER, STEM and General Education #elearning2014
It’s the final morning here at eLearning2014 and also the last session with an OER focus. We have a panel of experts from colleges around the USA talking about James Glapa-Grossklag, Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources, and Distance Learning, College of the Canyons Jean Runyon, Associate Vice President, Learning Advancement and the…
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Innovating at Community Colleges through OER #elearning2014
This presentation at eLearning 2014 brought together a number of OER Research Hub friends in discussion of the way that OER is fuelling innovation in community colleges. They comprise: James Glapa-Grossklag, Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources, and Distance Learning, College of the Canyons Quill West, OER Project Director at Tacoma Community…