Category: Dissemination
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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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Who are the open learners?
Another OER Hub publication goes live today, this time at EURODL. This time the subject is non-formal learners: who they are and how they use open resources to structure and progress their own study. You can (openly) access the HTML version at http://www.eurodl.org/?p=current&article=707 and download the PDF directly from http://www.eurodl.org/materials/contrib/2015/Farrow_et_al.pdf. Here’s the…
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Open education and critical pedagogy
I have a new publication entitled ‘Open Education and Critical Pedagogy’ upcoming with Learning, Media and Technology. Here’s the abstract. This paper argues for a revaluation of the potential of open education to support more critical forms of pedagogy. Section 1 examines contemporary discourses around open education, offering a commentary…
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The Impact of OER on Teaching and Learning Practice
OER Hub has a new publication out with Open Praxis. ‘The Impact of OER on Teaching and Learning Practice‘ provides an overview of some key findings from the OER Research Hub project. The findings reveal a set of direct impacts, including an increase in factors relating to student performance, increased reflection…
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Slides: Who are the Open Learners? #opened15
Here are my slides from today’s presentation at Open Education 2015. As ever, all feedback welcome! Who are the open learners? A comparative study profiling non-formal users of open educational resources from Robert Farrow
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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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Honest and reliable Open Access Journals in Open and Distance Education
As part of Open Access Week, Javiera Atenas has shared the following list of open journals that have good quality control and editorial boards that are respected. If you’re committed to open access publication but also under pressure to publish in high quality journals this could be a place to…
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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…