Category: evidence
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Open Education Week Spotlight – Librarians!
Today’s Open Education Week focus at the OER Research Hub is on Librarians. The OER Research Hub has been working over the last few months with members of the Co-PILOT project (which promotes “digital and information literacy” open resources for use in Higher Education) to help understand more about librarians’ use and promotion of…
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School of Open: Research Findings (Part I)
Ever wondered what it means to “be” open? Or what kind of practices could be considered open? School of Open (SOO) courses focus on a variety of aspects of openness (from understanding copyright in different contexts, to open licensing and what open science is) and offer the opportunity to share, participate and create in…
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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…
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OER Impact Map now open for contributions
I’m pleased to announce the latest addition to the OER Impact Map which now has an outward-facing user interface for entering data. The URL for the entry form is http://chaos.open.ac.uk/submit/. From here you can select which hypothesis your evidence relates to; add a geocode; and tag sectors. Once this information is…
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OER Impact Map: Rankings and recommendations are open
Clements and Pawlowski’s (2012, p. 9) survey-based study of secondary school teachers’ attitudes towards OER quality identifies several selection indicators involved in survey respondents’ choice of OER … They conclude that, in addition to quality instruments such as rankings and recommendations, trust is a common feature amongst these selection indicators…
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Infographic – Using, creating and sharing free online resources in a flipped classroom
There is a version of this post and infographic in Spanish here. As you may know by now, one of the OERRHub collaborations in the K12 sector is the Flipped Learning Network (FLN), a community of teachers whose mission is ‘to provide educators with the knowledge, skills and resources to…
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7th Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning opens in Nigeria
Nigeria certainly knows how to hold an opening ceremony. I’ve just walked up a long red carpet into Abuja’s International Conference Centre, the venue for the 7th Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF7), to enter a huge auditorium over which presides a long ‘high table’ for the distinguished guests, backed by sparkling…
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Using WordPress for research data collection and visualization
At the beginning of my contribution to the OU’s OER Research Hub project it was interesting to see a post by Martha Burtis (University of Mary Washington) on WordPress as a Data Collection Tool. There are a number of parallels between the work Martha has been doing and the OER Research…