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  OER Research Hub: July Round-Up

  What’s been happening at the Hub in July? It’s time for our monthly news round-up! Open Textbook Bonanza July kicked off with the release of a range of our research on open textbooks during the aptly named Open Textbook Research week. With contributors from all of our fantastic open textbook collaborators, this…

  July 30, 2014
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  Listen to Barbara Illowsky on the Journey of Collaborative Statistics! (Part Two)

  This is the second part of an interview with Barbara Illowsky, OCWC Educator ACE Award winner, Professor of Math and Statistics at De Anza College and co-author of the OpenStax College open textbook Introductory Statistics (previously Collaborative Statistics). Read the first part of this interview to find out more about Barbara, De Anza College, the impact of high…

  July 24, 2014
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  Listen to Barbara Illowsky on the Journey of Collaborative Statistics! (Part One)

  Earlier in the year I posted transcribed excerpts from an interview with OCWC Educator ACE Award winner, Professor of Math and Statistics at De Anza College and co-author of the OpenStax College open textbook Introductory Statistics (previously Collaborative Statistics) Barbara Illowsky. You can find my original post on the OpenEd13 interview here, which is still worth checking out for…

  July 24, 2014
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  Elise Adamson on OpenStax College Textbooks

  Earlier in the week we heard from Paul Shaber on his experiences of using OpenStax College (OSC) textbooks. Today we’re going to hear from two more educators, who I was fortunate enough to speak with earlier in the year: Elise Adamson and Adrienne Williams. This post is dedicated to excerpts from Elise’s…

  July 4, 2014
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  Adrienne Williams on OpenStax College Textbooks

  Earlier in the week we heard from Paul Shaber on his experiences of using OpenStax College (OSC) textbooks. Today we’re going to hear from two more educators, who I was fortunate enough to speak with earlier in the year: Elise Adamson and Adrienne Williams. This post is dedicated to excerpts from Adrienne’s…

  July 4, 2014
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  OpenStax College Student Survey Results (Part I)

  As was mentioned at the end of March (see earlier blog post) in addition to carrying out an OpenStax College (OSC) educator survey (for updated results see here) we also asked students about their use of OER and OSC textbooks. The bulk of respondents to this survey were drawn from the November OpenStax…

  July 2, 2014
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  Educator Paul Shaber on OpenStax College Textbooks

  Early this year, I had the opportunity to interview several OpenStax College using educators on their experiences of using the materials. Paul Shaber, of Fruitland Schools in Idaho very generously took time out to participate and sent me the following written responses to a series of questions regarding his use of OpenStax…

  July 1, 2014
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  What's Happening During Open Textbook Research Week?

  If you follow us on Twitter (and if not, check out @OER_Hub), or if you read my earlier post, then you’ll know that tomorrow sees the start of our Open Textbook research week! First, a big thanks is due to everyone I’ve been working with over the past few weeks; in particular special shouts…

  June 29, 2014
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  Media Update: Here, There … Everywhere!

  Missed a presentation? Forgot to attend a webinar? Fear not, you can access our research in more ways than ever before… Over the past few weeks we’ve been tidying up our website, instigated a “Twitter tag team” with the research team (myself, Rob and Bea) taking turns to run the…

  June 9, 2014
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  Maricopa OER Practitioners: David Weaver

  creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog 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. This is the third…

  June 5, 2014