Category: Dissemination
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In the OERRH spotlight- Flipped Learning
Today’s Open Education Week focus at the OER Research Hub (OERRH) is on Flipped Learning. One of the OERRH’s research collaborations is the Flipped Learning Network (FLN), a community of teachers whose mission is ‘to provide educators with the knowledge, skills and resources to successfully implement Flipped Learning’. Together, we have been working…
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Open Education Week Spotlight – Librarians!
Today’s Open Education Week focus at the OER Research Hub is on Librarians. The OER Research Hub has been working over the last few months with members of the Co-PILOT project (which promotes “digital and information literacy” open resources for use in Higher Education) to help understand more about librarians’ use and promotion of…
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Celebrating Open Education Week
Today marks the start of Open Education Week. The week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning. Throughout this week our OER Research Hub project will provide you with an overview of the field and…
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OER Impact Map Creates Buzz at OU's Learn About Fair
What is it about the OER Impact Map that creates so much interest among OER colleagues? I have been pondering this very question ever since it generated quite a buzz at its mini launch at Open Ed 13. One thing that’s for sure is that there seems to be an…
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OER Impact Map now open for contributions
I’m pleased to announce the latest addition to the OER Impact Map which now has an outward-facing user interface for entering data. The URL for the entry form is http://chaos.open.ac.uk/submit/. From here you can select which hypothesis your evidence relates to; add a geocode; and tag sectors. Once this information is…
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OER Impact Map: Rankings and recommendations are open
Clements and Pawlowski’s (2012, p. 9) survey-based study of secondary school teachers’ attitudes towards OER quality identifies several selection indicators involved in survey respondents’ choice of OER … They conclude that, in addition to quality instruments such as rankings and recommendations, trust is a common feature amongst these selection indicators…
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OER Impact at Community Colleges #elearning2014
Here are my slides from today’s presentation at eLearning 2014 with a textual summary of the findings below. A record of the discussion from todays session will be added soon… Thanks to the organisers from the Instructional Technology Council for inviting me to come and speak! Most of the respondents…
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OER Research Hub: Our first year in review (2012-2013)
Our OER Research Hub project began its first year probably the same way most research projects do –new staff establishing themselves into their new roles; developing key project management documents that would outline the framework of how the project would flow; developing of a research framework that would guide how…
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Infographic – Using, creating and sharing free online resources in a flipped classroom
There is a version of this post and infographic in Spanish here. As you may know by now, one of the OERRHub collaborations in the K12 sector is the Flipped Learning Network (FLN), a community of teachers whose mission is ‘to provide educators with the knowledge, skills and resources to…