Category: oer
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#opened13 Keynotes: Audrey Watters
This presentation began with a general discussion – informed by Audrey’s background as a folklore scholar – of apocalyptic prediction. Apocalypse and crisis are motifs that are common in contemporary discourse around education and educational technology, often accompanied by the idea of some sort of salvation through technology. Christiansen’s (1995)…
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The lofty heights of open: EADTU conference 2013, Paris
Dinner in the Eiffel Tower restaurant may have been the physical high point of three days recently spent in Paris attending the 2013 European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU) conference. However, the academic high point of the conference was gaining a bird’s-eye view of the development of open education across…
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Understanding OER in 10 videos
We suspect that most people who come to this site know what OERs are, but in case you don’t we’ve created a YouTube playlist that sequences 10 videos together explaining OERs and related issues. YouTube playlists also allow you to add notes to each one (although limited in characters and…
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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…
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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…
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First OERRH Fellow Arrives
I have the pleasure of being the first OER Research Hub (OERRH) fellow – in other words the guinea pig — as someone kindly pointed out. In spite of being first, the team couldn’t be more welcoming or organized. Simone and Claire have taken care of every imaginable need from…
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Snapshot: OER Policy
OER Policies are typically established in order to drive change, and there are now clear examples of where policy is being used as an instrument to drive OER. The Creative Commons OER Policy Registry lists 40 policies which reflect the ways in which policies supportive of OER and open access have…
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"O" is for… Open?
…Or could it be “Orioles”?! Seriously though, besides checking out my first baseball game, the time in Baltimore to date has been a great opportunity for follow-up research and has generated some interesting data about Bridge to Success post-project. Whilst my colleague Rob has been working largely in the DC…
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Flipped or flipped open?
PHOTO: CC-BY B. de los Arcos Claire Walker and I were scheduled to present at FlipCon13 last Wednesday, June 18th. Sadly, we never made it, as this silly Spaniard single-handedly decided it would be better fun to visit the local hospital, and not exactly to research their use of OER,…