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Open Research Open Textbook Out Now!
We are super excited to announce that a new open textbook version of our award winning course Open Research is out now! Hosted on the awesome Pressbooks this new textbook edition builds on our earlier facilitated versions of the course by including group activities and incorporating participant contributions into new activity commentary sections. You can now…
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What’s new at the Hub this Fall?
With the academic year beginning and the nights drawing in (well, here in the UK at least) it’s a good time to share with you what we’ve been up to and where we’ll be over the coming few months. First up, keep your eyes peeled for the promised Fall launch…
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All the (open) courses…!
Over the past year or so we’ve been busy co-developing a number of open courses as part of our collaborative work. These include the badged open course Becoming an Open Educator which was created as part of the Opening Educational Practices in Scotland (OEPS) project and which explores open education through the lens of…
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COL 2016 Survey of #OER
The Commonwealth of Learning (CoL) is conducting a global survey of OER ahead of the 2nd World OER Congress. The survey will form part of a study that will be used to inform future strategies, so it’s a good idea to take part. The expected outcomes of this study are…
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Literature Review: COUP Framework
Christina Hendricks has shared a helpful summary showing which aspects of the COUP framework are addressed in different parts of the literature in this area. I believe this would be of interest to many of our readers, so I’m sharing it through the blog. I think it’s fair to call…
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Introducing our new look and summer update!
Back in September we announced we would be widening our foci to researching the impact of open education more broadly and would be undergoing a rebrand to reflect this wider remit. If you’ve seen us at events and conferences, or been regularly dropping by to this website, you might have noticed that we’ve…
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JIME: OER15 Special Collection
The latest issue of the Journal of Interactive Media in Education (JiME) is now out! Guest-edited by myself and the lovely Bea de los Arcos, the issue brings together outstanding papers from last year’s OER15 conference in Cardiff, Wales. The OER15 conference marked the first one under the remit of the…
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OER World Map – latest developments and call to action
The OER World Map project aims at collecting and visualizing data about actors, services, projects and events related to OER in order to support the efforts of the OER community to organize and understand itself. OER World Map functionality continues to develop in exciting ways. The user interface has been…
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The Open Research Agenda (2)
[fusion_text]Back in March we shared the preliminary results of our consultation exercise we are calling The Open Research Agenda. Since then we have presented these findings and run seminars at two major open education conferences – OER16 and Open Education Global. Future presentations will take place at the CALRG Annual…
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The Open Research Agenda (1)
As we look forward to Open Education Week it’s time to share the first round of results of our ‘Open Research Agenda’ consultation exercise. The idea behind this is to try to bring a developed conversation to conferences rather than having interesting discussions that tail off after an event. We’re also…