Category: Interviews
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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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Interview with Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams of ROER4D
During the recent OCWC conference in Slovenia we spent some time catching-up with Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, PI of ROER4D (Research on Open Educational Resources for Development). It was great to meet face-to-face following discussions over Skype earlier in the year. ROER4D aims “…to improve educational policy, practice, and research in developing…
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Research on TESS-India localisation reported at OCWC Global 2014
OER ResearchHub Fellow Leigh-Anne Perryman, TESS-India Technical Director Tim Seal and TESS-India Researcher Alison Hemmings-Buckler presented a paper on OER localisation at the OCWC Global conference in LjubLjana, Slovenia this week. Here are our slides. The presentation notes are here.
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Interview with UMUC's Karen Vignare at OCWC 2014
On Thursday I had the privilege of chatting with Karen Vignare, Associate Provost at University of Maryland University College (UMUC) here at OCWC in Ljubljana, Slovenia. During Wednesday’s conference presentation, Karen told us more about how UMUC are moving toward an 100% e-resources/OER model by the end of 2016. In Spring/Summer 2013 alone,…
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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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Alan Levine talks openness
Alan Levine came to visit, and I grabbed a quick video (rather shakily done) of him talking about openness. If you haven’t seen them then Alan’s sites 50 ways to tell a story and True stories of openness are great resources.
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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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'Through a glass darkly' Part 3: OER, critical reflection and educators' improved practice – some early evidence
Do OER prompt critical reflection by educators who use them, resulting in improved practice? Part 3 of my blog series on reflection moves from abstract theorisation to concrete evidence around OER Research Hub (OERRH) hypothesis E, which raises this very question. JISC (2013) suggest that the use of OER ‘encourages open educational…