Category: oer
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Making OER Mainstream in Schools
<Image https://flic.kr/p/5QJnjk > (A guest post from Josie Fraser – thanks Josie!) I’m delighted to have been invited to keynote at OER15 – the Open Educational Communities annual international conference, taking place in Cardiff in April 2015. I’m very much looking forward to spending some time in the Welsh capital talking to,…
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One Year On: The Journey of "Open Research"
The following blog post was originally published on School of Open’s blog on 4 November 2014. It’s now been a couple of weeks since we formally ended our four-week Open Research course on P2PU … And what a month it was! We had 139 people sign up to the course, which looked at…
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From Chile, with love
I’m intrigued. The façade of the Universidad de Chile on Avenida Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins in Santiago displays a huge banner with a quote from Nicanor Parra, the anti-poet: “Don’t stop being a flea in the minotaur’s ear”. The university celebrates Parra’s 100th birthday recalling part of the speech he gave at the opening of…
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Opening Educational Practices in Scotland (OEPS) Launch
Yesterday I was in Edinburgh, Scotland for the Opening Educational Practices in Scotland (OEPS) project kick-off meeting and to run a “highly interactive session” to capture experiences and thoughts on OER and OEP in Scotland. Martin was also there, speaking on his forthcoming book (to quote, an “ideal stocking filler”)…
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It's not reuse, it's adaptation
<Image by SPUR https://flic.kr/p/fb6bDM> Reuse of OERs is an elusive, even mythical creature, so much so that Alan Levine has compared finding it to tracking Bigfoot. David Wiley has spoken of ‘dark reuse‘, like dark matter, we assume it’s going on but we can’t see it. But maybe we’re looking for…
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Writing for Change: Pre-Course Survey
This post was originally published on Peer 2 Peer University’s blog on 29 September 2014. Are you participating in Peer to Peer University’s (P2PU) Writing for Change course? Did you recently complete a pre-course survey? Curious as to what the survey was about or what the findings were? Well, read on! First,…
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Bibliography of OER, ROER and related subjects
Here’s a really useful bibliography of research into open education and OER, courtesy of the wonderful Javiera Atenas with some help from Leo Havemann, and Ernesto Priego. Let them know if you find it useful!