Category: evidence
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Evidence of OER Impact #opened13
Here are my slides for tomorrow’s presentation at Open Ed 2013. You can provide feedback through the comments below or tweet me via @philosopher1978. OER Impact: Towards an Evidence Base from Robert Farrow If you’d like to submit evidence to our project you may do so here. Here’s the voting…
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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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Building an evidence hub plugin for WordPress
I was recently contracted by the Open University to experiment with a solution to record and display evidence for the research hypotheses. Speaking to the project team a number of options were discussed from simple spreadsheet based approaches to re-purposing software versioning systems like Github. In the end it was…
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OER, At-Risk and Non-Traditional Students
Just over 10 years ago a US Department of Education report noted that at the turn of the millenium “…73% of all undergraduates were in some way non-traditional.” (Choy, 2002, 1) Moreover, as the report goes on to describe, this type of student faces specific issues and barriers to successfully…
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Beatus ille…
A quick Google-search on the benefits of OER for students will easily deliver a number of hits calling upon, for instance, their power to encourage more independent and flexible learning opportunities, and to facilitate exploration of materials ahead of enrolment, allowing learners to choose more wisely and also be better…
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Eyes Wide Shut: Measuring the Impact of Open
How do we define “openness” and what does “open” mean? Moreover, does it really matter if we cannot reach consensus on what “open” means? From David Wiley’s blog back in 2009 (“Open” is a continuous, not binary, construct. A door can be wide open, completely shut, or open part way…
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Open educational resources: A bridge to formal education?
The relationship between open educational resources and formal education is complex and multifaceted. In the early days of OER, detractors of the OER movement cautioned that universities could suffer financially from releasing free content – a vision of OER as in competition with formal education. To date, OER Research Hub (OERRH) research…
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Can OER break down barriers to participation in education?
Are open education models leading to more equitable access to education? The OER Research Hub (OERRH) has spent the past few months gathering evidence around this question in connection with OERRH hypothesis C – ‘Open education models lead to more equitable access to education, serving a broader base of learners than traditional…