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  • Reports from MOOC Research Hub

    An exciting new potential source of data came my way this morning as some of my notification services picked up on the reports that have been published as part of MOOC Research Hub, an initiative funded by the Gates Foundation and based at Athabasca University.  They bring together work from a…

  • Impressions from OCWC and OER14 conferences: speaking policy to practicioners

    Alek Tarkowski of Creative Commons Poland shares his thoughts on the status of OER policy following a busy conference season. Impressions from OCWC and OER14 conferences: speaking policy to practicioners. | Open Educational Policy for Europe.  

  • Reblog: 11th Annual Open Education Conference CFP

    A date for your diary – the call for proposals at Open Education 2014 is now open, closing at midnight on Friday, April 25, 2014.

  • Open content licensing for educators #OCL4ED

    Those educators interested in finding out more about the idea of open educational resources and the role of open licensing might want to consider an upcoming course from OERu. Open content licensing for educators (OCL4Ed) is a free OERu micro Open Online Course (mOOC) designed for educators and students who want to…

  • A Battle For Open?

    Martin Weller has a thought-provoking editorial in the latest issue of JiME.  He argues that many of the battles for open education have been won but that the movement now faces the challenge of balancing all kinds of different aims and aspirations.  Is openness about freedom?  Is this an argument…

  • FutureLearn & the role of MOOCs

    <Image http://www.flickr.com/photos/myklroventine/3448372653/> This post reblogged from: http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2013/09/futurelearn-the-role-of-moocs.html If you’re working in higher ed in the UK you will no doubt have seen that FutureLearn had its beta launch last week. Some disclosure – FutureLearn is owned by the OU & I’ve been partially involved in its development, so I’m probably not a…

  • FutureLearn Launch & Media Roundup

    While 2012 was perhaps the year of peak MOOC fever, the bubble evidently has yet to burst.  A consortium of UK universities led by The Open University has launched today with 20 pilot courses including 8 which are set to begin between October and December this year.  FutureLearn was set…

  • Supporting Informal Learners Openly

    This entry relates to our hypothesis on support for informal learners, which is phrased as follows: Informal learners adopt a variety of techniques to compensate for the lack of formal support, which can be supported in open courses As one might expect, informal learners appear to use a wide range of…

  • MOOC Evaluation & Disruptive Technologies

    The OLDS MOOC (Open Learning Design Studio MOOC) evaluation report by Simon Cross has just been published and I thought it was worth a quick look.  OLDS MOOC, based at The Open University, was a learning design MOOC that ran between January and March 2013. The course was structured to…

  • 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.…