Category: events
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Goodbye Mars: FlipCon14 reviewed
Have you ever heard of a microburst? Me neither, yet it seems that my trips to the US happen to coincide with freak meteorological conditions. Last year, Claire and I were the closest we’ve ever been to a tornado; this year it was a microburst. A what? Wikipedia to the…
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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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Open Research Course Update
Way back in March you may recall seeing a post on the School of Open (SOO) course we were planning on open research… Well, whilst we did go a bit quiet, behind the scenes the cogs were turning, plans were being made and (drum roll, please!) we are now pleased…
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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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A is for April: An update on our comings and goings
Dear friends, I should be embarrassed to report that our carbon footprint went through the roof in April, and I am, in part, but truth is all those air miles have been consumed in the name of open education! (I promise I’ll plant a few trees, honestly). First, Beck headed…
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Impressions from OCWC and OER14 conferences: speaking policy to practicioners
Alek Tarkowski of Creative Commons Poland shares his thoughts on the status of OER policy following a busy conference season. Impressions from OCWC and OER14 conferences: speaking policy to practicioners. | Open Educational Policy for Europe.
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Interview with Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams of ROER4D
During the recent OCWC conference in Slovenia we spent some time catching-up with Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, PI of ROER4D (Research on Open Educational Resources for Development). It was great to meet face-to-face following discussions over Skype earlier in the year. ROER4D aims “…to improve educational policy, practice, and research in developing…
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Reviewing OCWC from the ROER4D perspective – ROER4D
Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, Principal Investigator of the ROE4D Project reports from the OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCWC) Conference held in Ljubljana, Slovenia on the 23-25 April 2014. via Reviewing OCWC from the ROER4D perspective – ROER4D.
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Storify: OER Research Hub at OCWC Global 2014
The 2014 OCWC Global conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, was an eventful one for the OER Research Hub. This Storify presents a selection of tweets tracking the high points of the conference for the OER Research Hub team. The storify also has links to the presentations made by OER Research Hub researchers.…
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A Grand Tour of OER Policy #OER14
Hot off the press ahead of our presentation today here are the slides that myself and OER Research Hub fellow Sara Frank Bristow have put together on global OER policy and the ways that the OER Policy Map might help us to work out what’s going on… feedback welcome!