Category: data
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ICDE: useful papers on open education and MOOC
The International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) recently published a shortlist of reports and papers which were published in the last year. I’m reproducing the list here because I think it might be a useful source of data for OER Impact Map once we embark on the next…
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Missed OCWC14? Videos of Presentations Available Now!
Did you miss OCWC14 (“Open Education for a Multicultural World”) in Ljubljana, Slovenia at the end of May? Were you at the conference but missed a session? Well, fear not … videos of the presentations have been made available online! You can browse available sessions here. As you may be aware,…
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Reports from MOOC Research Hub
An exciting new potential source of data came my way this morning as some of my notification services picked up on the reports that have been published as part of MOOC Research Hub, an initiative funded by the Gates Foundation and based at Athabasca University. They bring together work from a…
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Coming Soon… Open Textbook Research Week
Some of you may have participated in the recent open textbook webinar (The Impact of Open Textbooks in the USA and South Africa: When? Why? How?) where I co-presented some of the findings of our recent educator surveys with open fellow Megan Beckett (Siyavula) and linked fellow Daniel Williamson (OpenStax College, OSC). The webinar was…
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May Update: What's new at the Hub?
The weather may have cooled down since Bea’s review of our activity in April, but it’s been another scorcher of a month here at the OER Research Hub (OERRH) during May… Visitors Fresh back from OER14 in Newcastle, we were honoured to host our final open fellow, Alan Levine, here at the…
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OER Impact Map
As OER Research Hub we aggregated and filtered data that relates to our research hypotheses. To see some of the evidence we gathered visit our OER Impact Map. There you will find up to date reporting on each of our hypotheses as well as summaries for different countries and help on using the…
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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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Is There a Gender Divide Around OER and Educational Technology?
The month of March has been a memorable one for our project – it was all about celebration! Like the rest of the OER community we joined in the fun of Open Education Week to help raise awareness of the global Open Education movement and its impact on teaching and learning.…