Category: Collaboration
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Report: Massive Open Online Courses for Employability, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
We are pleased to announce the publication of a new report produced for the ECM-LM project. The European MOOC Consortium brings together higher education, MOOC platforms and representatives of public and private sectors in a Knowledge Alliance. This report was written to provide a shared understanding of the evidence base…
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Free Open Book: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) for Business Learning
We are pleased to announce that we are making available a new open textbook which brings together key findings of the BizMOOC project. BizMOOC, which ended in December 2018, was a Knowledge Alliance project contributed to by OER Hub. The area of focus was the use of MOOC to support…
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Hub Holiday Round-Up!
Yes, it’s that time of the year again! We might have been a bit quiet on the social media front recently but rest assured there’s been lots going on behind the scenes. Here’s a little round up of some of our highlights over the past year. And of course, we’d also…
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Announcing the IV Workshop on OER, La Plata, Argentina
Next October learning technologists, researchers and educational practitioners will gather in La Plata, Argentina to participate in the 12th Latin-American Conference on Learning Technologies (LACLO 2017). At the same time, as part of the main conference, we are collaborating with Tel Amiel (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil), Virginia Rodés (Universidad…
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Celebrate #YearOfOpen at The Open University
As you’re probably aware 2017 is #YearOfOpen … a 365 day celebration of open education and the anniversary of a number of key milestones in its development, including the Cape Town Declaration, 15 years since the Budapest Open Access Initiative, and the 5th anniversary of the Paris OER Declaration. We’re excited to…
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Call for participation: UK Open Textbooks
The Hewlett Foundation has provided funding for a research project which will be led by OER Hub at The Open University (UK). The focus of the work will be the use of open textbooks in the UK. Open textbooks have seen impressive growth and impact in the North American context, through…
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The Hub in Review 2016
With the end of 2016 fast approaching, the OER Hub team would like to both thank you for your support over the past year and wish you all a peaceful and enjoyable holiday season. Here’s to a great year ahead! As we look forward we’re also taking a moment to…
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OER Hub Researcher Toolkit Out Now!
Way back during the first phase of the Hub we released all our tools and methodologies in the open for reuse and review by other researchers. We are delighted to hear that they have been of use to others when planning their own research on the impact of open education. However,…
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Twitter 101 Workshop
On 26 October 2016, as part of Open Access week, we held the first of our face-to-face workshops at The Open University (UK) … Twitter 101! As the name implies, the workshop was aimed at people who are new to microblogging with Twitter. We kicked off by looking at some Twitter basics and explored…
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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…