Category: OERRH
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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,…
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Greetings from Stillwater, Minnesota
Greetings from Stillwater, Minnesota where Bea de los Arcos and I are at FlipCon13 – the annual conference for the Flipped Learning Network (FLN). The conference is being held at Stillwater Area High School. The Flipped Learning movement is growing at pace with over 500 physical attendees and 500 virtual…
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known: nine surveys for OER research
Astronomer and writer Dr Carl Sagan is probably mis-credited as saying that ‘somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known’, though the sentence did feature in a 1977 interview with him in Newsweek magazine. Irrespective of whether Sagan or a magazine reporter made this statement I think it’s fair to say that Carl Sagan’s research…
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An Agile Hypothesis Sprint: what do we know about learner performance?
The structure for the research for OER Reserach Hub is built around 11 hypotheses that we are testing through our work with collaborating organisations, fellowships and background studies. We are now at a stage where the collaborations are well underway and surveys are producing data and we want to bring…
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Connexions Conference 2013 and Sprint Days (Part II)
OK… things aren’t that bad! But I was sad to leave Houston after a great week with the Connexions conference team and attendees. Thanks to everyone for making me feel so welcome and for taking time out to chat. I’ve been back in the UK for over a week now, so –…
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Connexions Conference and Sprint Days (Part I)
Tuesday’s Connexions conference (see here for the full programme) and the content and coding sprint days which followed were a fantastic experience: there was some great talks (both the keynote, Susan Badger, and the session on “Impact: Faculty and Student Perspectives” were particular highlights) with much discussion about what “next…
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Call for Proposals: OER Research Hub Fellowships
How to Apply If you have any queries about the fellowship programme or application process please contact: simone.arthur@open.ac.uk The OER Research Hub (OERRH) is delighted to announce its call for short-term researcher fellowships at The Open University, United Kingdom. Applications are invited from candidates who have an interest in undertaking research on the impact…
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Personalized Learning Workshop (Rice, 22 April 2013)
Pictures from yesterday’s workshop are available here.
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And We Have Lift Off!
Greetings from Houston! The First Personalized Learning Workshop at Rice University is underway… I’ve been tweeting from the conference (check out @Beck Pitt), but also wrote a blog post to cover the first of the morning sessions. So (better late than never) here goes… Remarking on the “personalized Houston weather”…
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Educating in Beta
Current activity within open education can be characterised as having reached a beta phase of maturity. In much the same way that software progresses through a release life cycle, beta is the penultimate testing phase, after the initial alpha-testing phase, whereby the software is adopted beyond its original developer community.…