Category: Latest News
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bizMOOC: ‘Learning with MOOCs for professional development’
Since the beginning of this year I’ve been working on the EU-funded bizMOOC Project, a consortium of HEIs and Industry partners from eleven European countries “to enable a European-wide exploitation of the potential of MOOCs for the world of business”. So far I’ve been mostly involved in delivering the outcomes…
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#YearOfOpen at The Open University (20 June). Final line-up!
Further to our earlier announcement, we’re excited to present the full line-up for tomorrow’s (20 June) #YearOfOpen event here at The Open University (OU). Join us in Jennie Lee Building (Ambient Lab) here on campus or online (via Periscope @OER_Hub or via YouTube) at 14.00-16.00BST. We’ll be celebrating openness here at…
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OER Hub activity in #openeducationwk 2017
As ever, there is a lot happening here at the Hub and Open Education Week 2017 provides a great opportunity to update everyone on what we’ve been up to. With our GO-GN hat on we recently returned from South Africa where we ran our annual workshop for PhD students. You…
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Twitter 101 Workshop
On 26 October 2016, as part of Open Access week, we held the first of our face-to-face workshops at The Open University (UK) … Twitter 101! As the name implies, the workshop was aimed at people who are new to microblogging with Twitter. We kicked off by looking at some Twitter basics and explored…
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Open Research Open Textbook Out Now!
We are super excited to announce that a new open textbook version of our award winning course Open Research is out now! Hosted on the awesome Pressbooks this new textbook edition builds on our earlier facilitated versions of the course by including group activities and incorporating participant contributions into new activity commentary sections. You can now…
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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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All the (open) courses…!
Over the past year or so we’ve been busy co-developing a number of open courses as part of our collaborative work. These include the badged open course Becoming an Open Educator which was created as part of the Opening Educational Practices in Scotland (OEPS) project and which explores open education through the lens of…
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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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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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Hub Highlights
As we move forward to our next phase as the Open Research Centre, it’s time to take a quick look at some of our “Hub Highlights” from the past 2.5 years: With over 7,000 respondents spread across 182 countries, our research has generated the largest dataset on OER use in the…