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  OER Research Hub: August Review

  As September beckons, here’s a quick round-up of what’s been happening at the Hub over the past month: Join us to explore Open Research As you might be aware, we’ve been working on our School of Open Open Research course over the past few months … August saw the launch of our…

  August 29, 2014
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  Cleaning our way to a monster dataset

  In February of 2013 the newly put together OERRH team completed the humongous task of creating a bank of survey questions which would be one of the main research instruments to collect data around the project’s eleven hypotheses. Bear one thing in mind: at the time, each of us was…

  August 11, 2014
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  Listen to Barbara Illowsky on the Journey of Collaborative Statistics! (Part Two)

  This is the second part of an interview with Barbara Illowsky, OCWC Educator ACE Award winner, Professor of Math and Statistics at De Anza College and co-author of the OpenStax College open textbook Introductory Statistics (previously Collaborative Statistics). Read the first part of this interview to find out more about Barbara, De Anza College, the impact of high…

  July 24, 2014
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  Listen to Barbara Illowsky on the Journey of Collaborative Statistics! (Part One)

  Earlier in the year I posted transcribed excerpts from an interview with OCWC Educator ACE Award winner, Professor of Math and Statistics at De Anza College and co-author of the OpenStax College open textbook Introductory Statistics (previously Collaborative Statistics) Barbara Illowsky. You can find my original post on the OpenEd13 interview here, which is still worth checking out for…

  July 24, 2014
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  Open Knowledge Festival 2014

  Earlier this week I was lucky enough to head to Berlin with colleagues Rob Farrow and Martin Weller to participate in the Open Knowledge Festival (#okfest14) Open Minds to Open Action at the amazing Kulturbrauerei… Thank to everyone we spoke to over the course of the festival; it was great to…

  July 18, 2014
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  The Role of OER in a New World of MOOC

  Recently I attended a mini conference dedicated to Open Educational Resources (OER). I found it to be quite interesting as there aren’t many events completely dedicated to OER these days. In fact, the organizers made it quite clear that the event was exclusively for discussing all matters OER. However, maybe…

  July 8, 2014
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  The iceberg model of OER engagement

  (reblogged from Martin’s blog) I’m pretty sure I’m the first person to ever use the iceberg analogy… I’ve been pondering ways of thinking about open education awareness, and OER usage that might help shape OER policy. So here’s one I want to try out. Open education in general, and OERs…

  July 7, 2014
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  Hay fevOER: a June update

  It is that time of the year when I get watery eyes, a runny nose and I feel I could sneeze my way to the end of the world, but would that stop me from updating you guys on what we’ve been up to in June? Hang on, let me…

  July 7, 2014
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  Adrienne Williams on OpenStax College Textbooks

  Earlier in the week we heard from Paul Shaber on his experiences of using OpenStax College (OSC) textbooks. Today we’re going to hear from two more educators, who I was fortunate enough to speak with earlier in the year: Elise Adamson and Adrienne Williams. This post is dedicated to excerpts from Adrienne’s…

  July 4, 2014
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  Siyavula Educator Survey Results: Impact of Using Siyavula (Part IV)

  This is the final part of a four-part series of blog posts co-authored by Beck Pitt (OER Research Hub researcher) and Megan Beckett (Siyavula). You can read our posts on the Siyavula educator sample and background to the study here, more on education in South Africa here and more on…

  July 4, 2014