Category: blogs
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In the OERRH spotlight- Flipped Learning
Today’s Open Education Week focus at the OER Research Hub (OERRH) is on Flipped Learning. One of the OERRH’s research collaborations is the Flipped Learning Network (FLN), a community of teachers whose mission is ‘to provide educators with the knowledge, skills and resources to successfully implement Flipped Learning’. Together, we have been working…
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Open Education Week Spotlight – Librarians!
Today’s Open Education Week focus at the OER Research Hub is on Librarians. The OER Research Hub has been working over the last few months with members of the Co-PILOT project (which promotes “digital and information literacy” open resources for use in Higher Education) to help understand more about librarians’ use and promotion of…
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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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#eLearning2014 – Pre-conference OER workshop
I’m in Orlando, Florida (the weather is glorious, unlike the UK) for the eLearning 2014 conference which starts tomorrow. Today I’ve taken part in a pre-conference workshop on OER in Valencia College with Jean Runyon of Anne Arundel Community College and James Glapa-Grossklag of College of the Canyons. Here are…
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First week with the OERRH in the IET at the OU in the UK
I arrived in the chilly UK on 18 January and after a lightning tour of London, I headed out to Milton Keynes, a new town/city by British standards, made obvious by its abundant use of traffic circles! Milton Keynes is home to The Open University (OU) where I will be…
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OERRH Fellow Jane Park shares notes from her recent fellowship experience
I took up residence in Milton Keynes, England, for one week as the Linked OER Research Hub Fellow for the School of Open. The School of Open is a community of volunteers from all around the world who are developing free education opportunities on the meaning, application, and impact of…
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A note from OERRH Open Fellow Sara Frank Bristow
I arrived at the OER Research Hub on 7 October 2013, intent on diving immediately into a study examining the Hub’s Hypothesis J: that Participation in OER pilots and programs leads to policy change at the institutional level. I dramatically underestimated how overstimulating an environment I’d find the Open University (and…
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Reblog: International Interest in Our Virtual College's Use of OER
Thanks to Ann Garnsey Harter of Shoreline Community College for this blog post about our meeting last week. We look forward to including Shoreline’s experiences as part of our evidence portfolio and keeping track of future developments!