Category: Education
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Announcing the IV Workshop on OER, La Plata, Argentina
Next October learning technologists, researchers and educational practitioners will gather in La Plata, Argentina to participate in the 12th Latin-American Conference on Learning Technologies (LACLO 2017). At the same time, as part of the main conference, we are collaborating with Tel Amiel (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil), Virginia Rodés (Universidad…
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Digital Badging in Higher Education
Those interested in badging learning and alternative forms of assessment might like to check out the following lecture from The Open University’s Patrina Law. The presentation includes an overview of OpenLearn and OpenLearnWorks as well as information about Badged Open Courses (BOC).
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Community Session: Open Education Handbook
The Open Education Working Group will be participating in an Open Knowledge Community session entitled Presenting the Open Education Handbook. The session will take place online on Thursday Dec 11, 2014 – 10.00-11.00AM UTC, with a link to be shared nearer the time. The Open Education Handbook is a collaboratively…
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OERRH OER Evidence Report 2013-2014
It gives me great pleasure to announce that OER Research Hub is now ready to release the first of its dissemination reports. The ‘OER Evidence Report 2013-2014’ brings together a range of evidence around the research hypotheses of the product and provides an overview of the impact OER is having…
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Making OER Mainstream in Schools
<Image https://flic.kr/p/5QJnjk > (A guest post from Josie Fraser – thanks Josie!) I’m delighted to have been invited to keynote at OER15 – the Open Educational Communities annual international conference, taking place in Cardiff in April 2015. I’m very much looking forward to spending some time in the Welsh capital talking to,…
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Interested in Open Research? Sign-up for our School of Open course!
It’s been in the pipeline for a while now, but we’re super excited to announce that our four-week School of Open Open Research course opened for sign-up yesterday! You can sign-up to participate in our four-week course until Friday 12 September 2014 with the course starting on Monday 15 September. So…
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Open Knowledge Festival 2014
Earlier this week I was lucky enough to head to Berlin with colleagues Rob Farrow and Martin Weller to participate in the Open Knowledge Festival (#okfest14) Open Minds to Open Action at the amazing Kulturbrauerei… Thank to everyone we spoke to over the course of the festival; it was great to…
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The Role of OER in a New World of MOOC
Recently I attended a mini conference dedicated to Open Educational Resources (OER). I found it to be quite interesting as there aren’t many events completely dedicated to OER these days. In fact, the organizers made it quite clear that the event was exclusively for discussing all matters OER. However, maybe…
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Elise Adamson on OpenStax College Textbooks
Earlier in the week we heard from Paul Shaber on his experiences of using OpenStax College (OSC) textbooks. Today we’re going to hear from two more educators, who I was fortunate enough to speak with earlier in the year: Elise Adamson and Adrienne Williams. This post is dedicated to excerpts from Elise’s…