Category: impact
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Free Open Book: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) for Business Learning
We are pleased to announce that we are making available a new open textbook which brings together key findings of the BizMOOC project. BizMOOC, which ended in December 2018, was a Knowledge Alliance project contributed to by OER Hub. The area of focus was the use of MOOC to support…
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#liveblog : #openresearch in #openeducationwk
Today we conducted our first workshop around the theme of open research at The Open University during Open Education Week. This workshop draws on our experiences from OER Research Hub and the materials generated for our award-winning course on P2Pu and our textbook on Open Research. The session was attended…
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The Hub in Review 2016
With the end of 2016 fast approaching, the OER Hub team would like to both thank you for your support over the past year and wish you all a peaceful and enjoyable holiday season. Here’s to a great year ahead! As we look forward we’re also taking a moment to…
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What’s new at the Hub this Fall?
With the academic year beginning and the nights drawing in (well, here in the UK at least) it’s a good time to share with you what we’ve been up to and where we’ll be over the coming few months. First up, keep your eyes peeled for the promised Fall launch…
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Introducing our new look and summer update!
Back in September we announced we would be widening our foci to researching the impact of open education more broadly and would be undergoing a rebrand to reflect this wider remit. If you’ve seen us at events and conferences, or been regularly dropping by to this website, you might have noticed that we’ve…
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Constellations of Open (Utah Valley)
Here are my slides from my presentation at the Open Education Symposium at Utah Valley University. If you’re interested in contributing to the forthcoming research consultation we are terming ‘Open Research Agenda’ you can find the short survey form at http://tinyurl.com/2016ora.
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New Report Out Now! Exploring the Use and Impact of OER in British Columbia
Earlier this week I was excited and proud to see the publication of our collaborative research with BCcampus. The report Exploring Faculty Use of Open Educational Resources at British Columbia post-secondary institutions explores educator use, perceptions and impacts of OER, open licensing and also examines awareness and use of open textbooks produced by the…
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Data Report 2013-2015: Educators
This post follows the release of Data Report 2013-2015: Informal Learners and Data Report 2013-2015: Formal Learners To recap: In 2013 the Hewlett-funded OER Research Hub Project created a bank of survey questions to test eleven hypotheses related to the impact of OER use on teaching and learning. In the two years that followed,…
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Data Report 2013-2015: Formal Learners
This post follows the release last week of our data report focusing on informal learners’ use of OER. To recap: In 2013 the Hewlett-funded OER Research Hub Project created a bank of survey questions to test eleven hypotheses related to the impact of OER use on teaching and learning. In the two years that…
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#OER Research findings #oeglobal 2015
It’s the morning of day two of Open Education Global 2015 and the team (that is, Bea) will be presenting some of our latest research findings in the Black Bear room at 10.30am. In case you can’t make it, here are the slides we will be using. Come along to…