Category: oer
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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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JIME: OER15 Special Collection
The latest issue of the Journal of Interactive Media in Education (JiME) is now out! Guest-edited by myself and the lovely Bea de los Arcos, the issue brings together outstanding papers from last year’s OER15 conference in Cardiff, Wales. The OER15 conference marked the first one under the remit of the…
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OER World Map – latest developments and call to action
The OER World Map project aims at collecting and visualizing data about actors, services, projects and events related to OER in order to support the efforts of the OER community to organize and understand itself. OER World Map functionality continues to develop in exciting ways. The user interface has been…
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The Open Research Agenda (2)
[fusion_text]Back in March we shared the preliminary results of our consultation exercise we are calling The Open Research Agenda. Since then we have presented these findings and run seminars at two major open education conferences – OER16 and Open Education Global. Future presentations will take place at the CALRG Annual…
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The Open Research Agenda (1)
As we look forward to Open Education Week it’s time to share the first round of results of our ‘Open Research Agenda’ consultation exercise. The idea behind this is to try to bring a developed conversation to conferences rather than having interesting discussions that tail off after an event. We’re also…
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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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Open education and critical pedagogy
I have a new publication entitled ‘Open Education and Critical Pedagogy’ upcoming with Learning, Media and Technology. Here’s the abstract. This paper argues for a revaluation of the potential of open education to support more critical forms of pedagogy. Section 1 examines contemporary discourses around open education, offering a commentary…
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The Impact of OER on Teaching and Learning Practice
OER Hub has a new publication out with Open Praxis. ‘The Impact of OER on Teaching and Learning Practice‘ provides an overview of some key findings from the OER Research Hub project. The findings reveal a set of direct impacts, including an increase in factors relating to student performance, increased reflection…
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#liveblog Panel: Increasing OER adoption in a community of practice #opened15
This panel brings together experts from the community college sector in the USA: Una Daly (UD); Preston Davies (PD); Quill West (QW), Christie Fierro (CF) and James Glapa-Grossklag (JGG). Many of the panel are involved in both the Open Education Consortium and The Community College Consortium for OER (which was…
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#liveblog: Researching OER in the open
Here’s a live blog summary of Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams‘ presentation from Open Education 2015 on the progress of the ROER4D project (86 researchers across 26 countries). Cheryl began by describing the federated and distributed nature of their project, as well as some of the challenges faced by their researchers in the Global…