Category: fellowships
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Maricopa OER Practitioners: Sian Proctor
As part of my fellowship for the OER Research Hub at the Open University I am sharing these excerpts from conversations about OER use/creation recorded in April 2014 with faculty at the Maricopa Community Colleges. creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Sian Proctor teaches Geology…
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Maricopa OER Practitioners: James Sousa
As part of my fellowship for the OER Research Hub at the Open University I am sharing these excerpts from conversations about OER use/creation recorded in April 2014 with faculty at the Maricopa Community Colleges. James Sousa, a mathematics faculty at Phoenix College, has quietly produced an impressive collection of…
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Starting the OU Speed Fellowship
creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Yes, as promised, I have confirmed that Milton Keynes has plenty of roundabouts, but more importantly, I am here as a (brief) fellow at the Open University, for the OER Research Hub project. I had some grandiose plans of…
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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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Snapshot of the TAACCCT OER Community Pt.1
What’s happening inside the world’s largest OER project? What patterns exist among grantee projects in their use and attitudes of OER and proprietary content? This blog post summarizes initial results of a survey conducted in February and March of 2014, exploring knowledge areas and use patterns of Open Educational Resources…
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Removing 'unfreedoms' through OER: TESS-India research update
Alan Tait’s Asa Briggs lecture at the 7th Pan-Commonwealth Forum for Open Learning (PCF7) in Abuja, Nigeria last December presented a compelling summary of the role of open education and open educational resources (OER) in international development contexts, referencing development economist and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen’s ‘capability’ approach, which sees the aims of development as…
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Fellowship visit to the OERRH: highlights
It had been with some trepidation that I approached the OU campus on the first day of my visit. Two and a half years had passed since I moved away from Milton Keynes, so, naturally, I was wondering what might have changed in the place during this time. Unsurprisingly, it…
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First week with the OERRH in the IET at the OU in the UK
I arrived in the chilly UK on 18 January and after a lightning tour of London, I headed out to Milton Keynes, a new town/city by British standards, made obvious by its abundant use of traffic circles! Milton Keynes is home to The Open University (OU) where I will be…
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OER Research Hub welcomes Open Fellows and visitors from collaborations
The OERRH has started off 2014 with an exciting visitors programme. Open Fellows Giselle Ferreira; Alannah Fitzgerald and Megan Beckett will be with us at various times throughout January. Giselle is an Adjunct Professor at the Post-Graduate Programme in Education of the University Estácio de Sá, Rio de Janeiro, where…
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OER Research Hub: Our first year in review (2012-2013)
Our OER Research Hub project began its first year probably the same way most research projects do –new staff establishing themselves into their new roles; developing key project management documents that would outline the framework of how the project would flow; developing of a research framework that would guide how…