Category: events
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Research on TESS-India localisation reported at OCWC Global 2014
OER ResearchHub Fellow Leigh-Anne Perryman, TESS-India Technical Director Tim Seal and TESS-India Researcher Alison Hemmings-Buckler presented a paper on OER localisation at the OCWC Global conference in LjubLjana, Slovenia this week. Here are our slides. The presentation notes are here.
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Interview with UMUC's Karen Vignare at OCWC 2014
On Thursday I had the privilege of chatting with Karen Vignare, Associate Provost at University of Maryland University College (UMUC) here at OCWC in Ljubljana, Slovenia. During Wednesday’s conference presentation, Karen told us more about how UMUC are moving toward an 100% e-resources/OER model by the end of 2016. In Spring/Summer 2013 alone,…
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OER Impact: Collaboration, Evidence, Synthesis
The OER ResearchHub researchers are presently in LjubLjana, Slovenia for the the OCWC Global conference. I’ll be speaking this afternoon and these are the slides I’ll be using… feedback welcome!
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Textbook Heroes at CNX2014
Two weeks ago I was participating in CNX2014 at Rice University, Houston. Although I was mainly tweeting from the conference, I did take a few notes which I’ve reproduced below. These notes focus only on Monday’s sessions so, for a more detailed and varied account of what happened, check out the conference hashtag…
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CCCOER: OER Impact Research Webinar
This week myself and Quill West presented to the Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER) webinar on the impact of OER on educators and students in the community college system. My part of the presentation was largely based on the surveys carried out as part of last years OERRH research.…
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Is There a Gender Divide Around OER and Educational Technology?
The month of March has been a memorable one for our project – it was all about celebration! Like the rest of the OER community we joined in the fun of Open Education Week to help raise awareness of the global Open Education movement and its impact on teaching and learning.…
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OpenStax College Survey Results (Part I)
Exciting times! I’m currently in Houston and about to head on over to Rice University for CNX2014 tomorrow. I was lucky enough to attend last year’s conference and am returning this year to present some of our research findings on OpenStax College (OSC) textbooks as part of 1 April’s Rapid Fire panel…
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Apr 9: OER Impact Research at Community Colleges
If you’re a community college person and interested in OER you’ll probably be aware of Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER) who are one of our collaboration partners. I’ll be presenting some of our research findings at a forthcoming webinar on April 9th 2014. Link to recording: http://oerresearchhub.org/2014/04/12/cccoer-oer-impact-research-webinar/ Link to…
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Open Research: OER Research Hub Course Launches June 2014!
What is open research? In what ways can research be open? What do we mean by open in this context? When is it appropriate for research to be open? What does researching openly involve and what makes open research possible? What are the benefits of open research? What kinds of challenges…
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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…