Category: conference
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Storify: OER Research Hub at OCWC Global 2014
The 2014 OCWC Global conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, was an eventful one for the OER Research Hub. This Storify presents a selection of tweets tracking the high points of the conference for the OER Research Hub team. The storify also has links to the presentations made by OER Research Hub researchers.…
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A Grand Tour of OER Policy #OER14
Hot off the press ahead of our presentation today here are the slides that myself and OER Research Hub fellow Sara Frank Bristow have put together on global OER policy and the ways that the OER Policy Map might help us to work out what’s going on… feedback welcome!
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Research on TESS-India localisation reported at OCWC Global 2014
OER ResearchHub Fellow Leigh-Anne Perryman, TESS-India Technical Director Tim Seal and TESS-India Researcher Alison Hemmings-Buckler presented a paper on OER localisation at the OCWC Global conference in LjubLjana, Slovenia this week. Here are our slides. The presentation notes are here.
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Interview with UMUC's Karen Vignare at OCWC 2014
On Thursday I had the privilege of chatting with Karen Vignare, Associate Provost at University of Maryland University College (UMUC) here at OCWC in Ljubljana, Slovenia. During Wednesday’s conference presentation, Karen told us more about how UMUC are moving toward an 100% e-resources/OER model by the end of 2016. In Spring/Summer 2013 alone,…
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Textbook Heroes at CNX2014
Two weeks ago I was participating in CNX2014 at Rice University, Houston. Although I was mainly tweeting from the conference, I did take a few notes which I’ve reproduced below. These notes focus only on Monday’s sessions so, for a more detailed and varied account of what happened, check out the conference hashtag…
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Reblog: 11th Annual Open Education Conference CFP
A date for your diary – the call for proposals at Open Education 2014 is now open, closing at midnight on Friday, April 25, 2014.
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OER, STEM and General Education #elearning2014
It’s the final morning here at eLearning2014 and also the last session with an OER focus. We have a panel of experts from colleges around the USA talking about James Glapa-Grossklag, Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources, and Distance Learning, College of the Canyons Jean Runyon, Associate Vice President, Learning Advancement and the…
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7th Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning opens in Nigeria
Nigeria certainly knows how to hold an opening ceremony. I’ve just walked up a long red carpet into Abuja’s International Conference Centre, the venue for the 7th Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF7), to enter a huge auditorium over which presides a long ‘high table’ for the distinguished guests, backed by sparkling…
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I teach, therefore I reflect (and change)
During the few weeks ahead of OpenEd13, in preparation for my talk, I spent time interviewing K12 teachers in the US about their use of open educational resources (OER) in the classroom. As part of my work with the OER Research Hub Project I’m researching the hypothesis that OER use leads educators to critically…
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Open solutions to a 'national crisis': The impact of OER on teacher education in India
Here are the slides for my Open Ed 2013 presentation. If you have any questions or feedback please use the comments below or tweet me via @laperryman. Open solutions to a national crisis: The impact of OER on teacher education in India