Category: oer
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Reminder: Open Education Week 10-15 March 2014
Are you doing something for Open Education Week 2014? Tell us about it by clicking on the ‘Contact Us’ page or in comments below!
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OER Impact at Community Colleges #elearning2014
Here are my slides from today’s presentation at eLearning 2014 with a textual summary of the findings below. A record of the discussion from todays session will be added soon… Thanks to the organisers from the Instructional Technology Council for inviting me to come and speak! Most of the respondents…
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Open Textbooks Could Help Students Financially and Academically (Chronicle of Higher Ed)
Here’s a ballpark figure for open textbook savings – about $100 per student per class. That’s according to new research by Ethan Senack on behalf of Student PIRGS.
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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…
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Re-blog: New Models for a New Year
Paul Stacey (Creative Commons) wrote a neat retrospective for 2013 at New Models for a New Year. The focus here is on how open models require a rethink of traditional business models across the public and private sectors (including the World Bank’s Global Food Safety Partnership (GFSP) (with which I have been loosely…
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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…
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7th Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning opens in Nigeria
Nigeria certainly knows how to hold an opening ceremony. I’ve just walked up a long red carpet into Abuja’s International Conference Centre, the venue for the 7th Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF7), to enter a huge auditorium over which presides a long ‘high table’ for the distinguished guests, backed by sparkling…
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I teach, therefore I reflect (and change)
During the few weeks ahead of OpenEd13, in preparation for my talk, I spent time interviewing K12 teachers in the US about their use of open educational resources (OER) in the classroom. As part of my work with the OER Research Hub Project I’m researching the hypothesis that OER use leads educators to critically…
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Open solutions to a 'national crisis': The impact of OER on teacher education in India
Here are the slides for my Open Ed 2013 presentation. If you have any questions or feedback please use the comments below or tweet me via @laperryman. Open solutions to a national crisis: The impact of OER on teacher education in India
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Saylor Survey Report
We’ve had an impressive – if not overwhelming – response for our survey of Saylor.org learners who have been completing our ‘informal learners’ survey. We have now closed the survey but we received 3,101 responses in just under six weeks! Truly this surpassed my wildest expectation, and reflects the kind…