Category: OERRH
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School of Open: Research Findings (Part II)
Earlier in the week I reported on the preliminary Autumn 2013 pre-course questionnaire results of the work we’ve been doing with School of Open (SOO) over the past year. In this blog post, I’m focusing on the preliminary results of the post-course questionnaire. We received a total of 22 responses from participants in two out of the four…
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In the OERRH spotlight- Flipped Learning
Today’s Open Education Week focus at the OER Research Hub (OERRH) is on Flipped Learning. One of the OERRH’s research collaborations is the Flipped Learning Network (FLN), a community of teachers whose mission is ‘to provide educators with the knowledge, skills and resources to successfully implement Flipped Learning’. Together, we have been working…
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School of Open: Research Findings (Part I)
Ever wondered what it means to “be” open? Or what kind of practices could be considered open? School of Open (SOO) courses focus on a variety of aspects of openness (from understanding copyright in different contexts, to open licensing and what open science is) and offer the opportunity to share, participate and create in…
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Celebrating Open Education Week
Today marks the start of Open Education Week. The week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning. Throughout this week our OER Research Hub project will provide you with an overview of the field and…
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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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OER Research Hub: Our first year in review (2012-2013)
Our OER Research Hub project began its first year probably the same way most research projects do –new staff establishing themselves into their new roles; developing key project management documents that would outline the framework of how the project would flow; developing of a research framework that would guide how…
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Infographic – Using, creating and sharing free online resources in a flipped classroom
There is a version of this post and infographic in Spanish here. As you may know by now, one of the OERRHub collaborations in the K12 sector is the Flipped Learning Network (FLN), a community of teachers whose mission is ‘to provide educators with the knowledge, skills and resources to…
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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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Evidence of OER Impact #opened13
Here are my slides for tomorrow’s presentation at Open Ed 2013. You can provide feedback through the comments below or tweet me via @philosopher1978. OER Impact: Towards an Evidence Base from Robert Farrow If you’d like to submit evidence to our project you may do so here. Here’s the voting…
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A note from OERRH Open Fellow Sara Frank Bristow
I arrived at the OER Research Hub on 7 October 2013, intent on diving immediately into a study examining the Hub’s Hypothesis J: that Participation in OER pilots and programs leads to policy change at the institutional level. I dramatically underestimated how overstimulating an environment I’d find the Open University (and…