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Digital Badging in Higher Education
Those interested in badging learning and alternative forms of assessment might like to check out the following lecture from The Open University’s Patrina Law. The presentation includes an overview of OpenLearn and OpenLearnWorks as well as information about Badged Open Courses (BOC).
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Constellations of Open (Utah Valley)
Here are my slides from my presentation at the Open Education Symposium at Utah Valley University. If you’re interested in contributing to the forthcoming research consultation we are terming ‘Open Research Agenda’ you can find the short survey form at http://tinyurl.com/2016ora.
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New Report Out Now! Exploring the Use and Impact of OER in British Columbia
Earlier this week I was excited and proud to see the publication of our collaborative research with BCcampus. The report Exploring Faculty Use of Open Educational Resources at British Columbia post-secondary institutions explores educator use, perceptions and impacts of OER, open licensing and also examines awareness and use of open textbooks produced by the…
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Who are the open learners?
Another OER Hub publication goes live today, this time at EURODL. This time the subject is non-formal learners: who they are and how they use open resources to structure and progress their own study. You can (openly) access the HTML version at http://www.eurodl.org/?p=current&article=707 and download the PDF directly from http://www.eurodl.org/materials/contrib/2015/Farrow_et_al.pdf. Here’s the…
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Open education and critical pedagogy
I have a new publication entitled ‘Open Education and Critical Pedagogy’ upcoming with Learning, Media and Technology. Here’s the abstract. This paper argues for a revaluation of the potential of open education to support more critical forms of pedagogy. Section 1 examines contemporary discourses around open education, offering a commentary…
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The Impact of OER on Teaching and Learning Practice
OER Hub has a new publication out with Open Praxis. ‘The Impact of OER on Teaching and Learning Practice‘ provides an overview of some key findings from the OER Research Hub project. The findings reveal a set of direct impacts, including an increase in factors relating to student performance, increased reflection…
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The State of Open Research, and of Research on Open
Martin Weller, Rob Farrow and Beck Pitt are guests of Thompson Rivers University this week, where they are taking part in the Opening Up TRU event. As part of this, Rob and Beck took part in a panel discussion on Open Research with David Kernohan, Vivian Rolfe and Tannis Morgan.…
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#liveblog Panel: Increasing OER adoption in a community of practice #opened15
This panel brings together experts from the community college sector in the USA: Una Daly (UD); Preston Davies (PD); Quill West (QW), Christie Fierro (CF) and James Glapa-Grossklag (JGG). Many of the panel are involved in both the Open Education Consortium and The Community College Consortium for OER (which was…
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Slides: Who are the Open Learners? #opened15
Here are my slides from today’s presentation at Open Education 2015. As ever, all feedback welcome! Who are the open learners? A comparative study profiling non-formal users of open educational resources from Robert Farrow
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#liveblog Supporting Open Textbook Adoption in British Columbia
Mary Burgress and David Port are kicking things off on the final day of Open Education 2015 with their keynote on open textbook adoption in BC – time for a liveblog! The idea of the presentation is to tell the story of the project as well as to honour those…