Category: data
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Report: Models for online, open, flexible and technology enhanced higher education
Regular readers of these pages may recall that last year we shared information about a research collaboration between OER Hub and FiBS and put out a global call to share information about educational delivery for a comparative study. We shared interim results from the project back in October, but I’m…
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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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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…
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The Open Research Agenda (1)
As we look forward to Open Education Week it’s time to share the first round of results of our ‘Open Research Agenda’ consultation exercise. The idea behind this is to try to bring a developed conversation to conferences rather than having interesting discussions that tail off after an event. We’re also…
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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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OER Hub Data Report 2013-2015
The OER Hub team are in Vancouver for Open Education 2015 and it’s a good opportunity to release another report based on the huge amounts of data we have collected on how people use and think about OER. This report brings together shorter releases from over the summer where we…
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Data Report 2013-2015: Educators
This post follows the release of Data Report 2013-2015: Informal Learners and Data Report 2013-2015: Formal Learners To recap: In 2013 the Hewlett-funded OER Research Hub Project created a bank of survey questions to test eleven hypotheses related to the impact of OER use on teaching and learning. In the two years that followed,…
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Data Report 2013-2015: Formal Learners
This post follows the release last week of our data report focusing on informal learners’ use of OER. To recap: In 2013 the Hewlett-funded OER Research Hub Project created a bank of survey questions to test eleven hypotheses related to the impact of OER use on teaching and learning. In the two years that…
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Data Report 2013-2015: Informal Learners
In 2013 the Hewlett-funded OER Research Hub Project created a bank of survey questions to test eleven hypotheses related to the impact of OER use on teaching and learning. In the two years that followed, a number of bespoke surveys were designed and administered in collaboration with the Flipped Learning…
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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…