Category: events
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#opened13 Keynotes: Audrey Watters
This presentation began with a general discussion – informed by Audrey’s background as a folklore scholar – of apocalyptic prediction. Apocalypse and crisis are motifs that are common in contemporary discourse around education and educational technology, often accompanied by the idea of some sort of salvation through technology. Christiansen’s (1995)…
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#opened13 Keynotes: George Siemens
David Wiley introduced George by noting that he wrote the course for which the term ‘MOOC’ was originally created. George similarly paid tribute to David’s stewardship of the OER movement. Here are George’s slides, helpfully made available ahead of time. Open Education 2013 from gsiemens The presentation started with a…
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A note from OERRH Open Fellow Sara Frank Bristow
I arrived at the OER Research Hub on 7 October 2013, intent on diving immediately into a study examining the Hub’s Hypothesis J: that Participation in OER pilots and programs leads to policy change at the institutional level. I dramatically underestimated how overstimulating an environment I’d find the Open University (and…
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Good morning snowy Utah!
October to November 2013 sees the OER Research Hub team, variously, on tour. In my previous blog post I reported on my trip to Paris to present at the EADTU 2013 conference. The temperature was mild during my stay, indeed quite warm at times. Not so in Park City, Utah, where…
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The lofty heights of open: EADTU conference 2013, Paris
Dinner in the Eiffel Tower restaurant may have been the physical high point of three days recently spent in Paris attending the 2013 European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU) conference. However, the academic high point of the conference was gaining a bird’s-eye view of the development of open education across…
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Rob's Report from Educause #edu13
I’ve spent the last few days here in Anaheim (a stone’s throw from Disneyland) at the annual Educause conference. It’s my first time here and I’ve found a few things that were surprising or of note. The first thing to say is that this is a very well organised and…
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FutureLearn Launch & Media Roundup
While 2012 was perhaps the year of peak MOOC fever, the bubble evidently has yet to burst. A consortium of UK universities led by The Open University has launched today with 20 pilot courses including 8 which are set to begin between October and December this year. FutureLearn was set…
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Upcoming Conferences Related to Open Education
This may be of interest to OER people both within the team and outside… also giving the ‘Reblog’ function a first try!
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What Makes Openness Work?
Here are our slides from today’s project presentation at the Institute of Educational Technology. A podcast for the event can be accessed here: http://podcast.open.ac.uk/feeds/iet-public/20130718T112336_oer_tcm20130717.m4v There is also a Cloudworks page for the event which includes more detailed slides on TrackOER. What Makes Openness Work?