Category: fellowships
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OERRH Fellow Jane Park shares notes from her recent fellowship experience
I took up residence in Milton Keynes, England, for one week as the Linked OER Research Hub Fellow for the School of Open. The School of Open is a community of volunteers from all around the world who are developing free education opportunities on the meaning, application, and impact of…
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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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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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Flipped Learning in the UK – Two Examples
A BLOG POST BY KARI ARFSTROM PhD, Executive Director of the Flipped Learning Network As a Fellow of the OER Research Hub Project at the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK, I had the incredible opportunity to visit for two weeks in September, 2013. The Project and Fellowship program is supported…
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Collaboration: OER & Community Colleges
Here’s a copy of the slides from Una Daly’s research presentation last week which was delivered as part of her fellowship visit. It contains great background information on community colleges, the history of OCWC and CCCOER, as well as a sketch for our future collaboration. CCCOER OER Research Hub Fellowship…
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OER Research Hub welcomes visiting fellow Una Daly
OER Research Hub welcomes visiting fellow Una Daly The OER Research Hub welcomed its first Linked Fellow Una Daly at the end of July. Una is currently Community College Outreach Director, Open Courseware Consortium, based in Northern California where she is responsible for building a collaborative online community of faculty…
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First OERRH Fellow Arrives
I have the pleasure of being the first OER Research Hub (OERRH) fellow – in other words the guinea pig — as someone kindly pointed out. In spite of being first, the team couldn’t be more welcoming or organized. Simone and Claire have taken care of every imaginable need from…
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Educating in Beta
Current activity within open education can be characterised as having reached a beta phase of maturity. In much the same way that software progresses through a release life cycle, beta is the penultimate testing phase, after the initial alpha-testing phase, whereby the software is adopted beyond its original developer community.…