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From believer to dOER
Well worth a read is this post by Rajiv Jhangiani, Director of the Social and Political Cognition Lab at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and Faculty Fellow with the BC Campus Open Textbook Project. Rajiv has been working with Beck Pitt on faculty adoption of open resources at BC campus. In this post…
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OER in schools
Despite great initiatives like the DigiLit Leicester project on these shores and K12 OER Collaborative in the US, OER folks’ attention does not focus often enough on the K-12/school scene. TJ Bliss writes “If we want OER to become the default, we need people to use OER and to know…
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Where does project management fit in an Open Research Project
In some ways I have been a silent partner within the OER Research Hub team. They have asked me on many occasions to contribute to this blog and share the experience of constructing and managing an open education research project. The researchers within the team are undertaking their research in…
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2015 so far… January and February review
Project Update It may seem a little quiet here at the Hub of late but rest assured we’re hard at work behind the scenes! Since the new year we’ve been particularly focused on writing up our research for journal publication. Simultaneously, the team is also involved in a number of…
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USQ Open Textbook Initiative
David Jones shares news of funding available to produce open textbooks for the USQ Open Textbook Initiative.
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Mark the Date! Open Education Week (9-13 March 2015)
With just over a month to go, Open Education Week is fast approaching! Una Daly from the Open Education Consortium (OEC) tells us more: “Open Education Week (March 9-13, 2015) in its 4th annual year is an online celebration of the global Open Education Movement. Its purpose is to raise awareness…
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OER Research Hub wins Engaging Research Award!
The OER Research Hub is proud to announce that we were awarded an Open University Engaging Research Award 2015 for our P2PU Open Research course on School of Open today! The four-week course explored the concept and practice of open research, ethics in the open, dissemination and the role of…
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Double Feature! November and December at the Hub
Team Hub wishes all its supporters, collaborators and friends all the very best for the forthcoming festivities and 2015! It’s been an amazing year and thank you for your continued support; we couldn’t do it without you all. We’ve had a busy November and December (as ultra observant readers of our…
