Category: educators
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All the (open) courses…!
Over the past year or so we’ve been busy co-developing a number of open courses as part of our collaborative work. These include the badged open course Becoming an Open Educator which was created as part of the Opening Educational Practices in Scotland (OEPS) project and which explores open education through the lens of…
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Introducing our new look and summer update!
Back in September we announced we would be widening our foci to researching the impact of open education more broadly and would be undergoing a rebrand to reflect this wider remit. If you’ve seen us at events and conferences, or been regularly dropping by to this website, you might have noticed that we’ve…
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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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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,…