Category: open education
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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 Supporting Open Textbook Adoption in British Columbia
Mary Burgress and David Port are kicking things off on the final day of Open Education 2015 with their keynote on open textbook adoption in BC – time for a liveblog! The idea of the presentation is to tell the story of the project as well as to honour those…
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Sketchnote: Openness and the Future of Post-Secondary Education #opened15
OER Hub research doyenne Beck Pitt presents this interpretation of the first keynote of the conference.
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OER Hub Data Report 2013-2015
The OER Hub team are in Vancouver for Open Education 2015 and it’s a good opportunity to release another report based on the huge amounts of data we have collected on how people use and think about OER. This report brings together shorter releases from over the summer where we…
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Hub Highlights
As we move forward to our next phase as the Open Research Centre, it’s time to take a quick look at some of our “Hub Highlights” from the past 2.5 years: With over 7,000 respondents spread across 182 countries, our research has generated the largest dataset on OER use in the…
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Go West: #OER15 Calling!
Next week team OER Hub will be Westward bound as we head to Cardiff, Wales for OER15! This year’s conference is focused on “Mainstreaming Open Education” and will be held at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama on Tuesday 14 and Wednesday 15 April. Keynotes include Cable Green, Sheila MacNeill, Josie…
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2015 so far… January and February review
Project Update It may seem a little quiet here at the Hub of late but rest assured we’re hard at work behind the scenes! Since the new year we’ve been particularly focused on writing up our research for journal publication. Simultaneously, the team is also involved in a number of…
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Mark the Date! Open Education Week (9-13 March 2015)
With just over a month to go, Open Education Week is fast approaching! Una Daly from the Open Education Consortium (OEC) tells us more: “Open Education Week (March 9-13, 2015) in its 4th annual year is an online celebration of the global Open Education Movement. Its purpose is to raise awareness…
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Ethics, Openness and the Future of Education
By popular demand, here are my slides from today’s presentation at Open Education 2014. All feedback welcome and if this subject is of interest to you then consider checking out the OERRH Ethics Manual and the section on ethics (week 2) of our Open Research course.
