Category: open education
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What's Happening During Open Textbook Research Week?
If you follow us on Twitter (and if not, check out @OER_Hub), or if you read my earlier post, then you’ll know that tomorrow sees the start of our Open Textbook research week! First, a big thanks is due to everyone I’ve been working with over the past few weeks; in particular special shouts…
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ICDE: useful papers on open education and MOOC
The International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) recently published a shortlist of reports and papers which were published in the last year. I’m reproducing the list here because I think it might be a useful source of data for OER Impact Map once we embark on the next…
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Creative Commons Licenses for Flipped Educators
Last September, when Kari Arfstrom visited Milton Keynes as an OERRHub fellow, we talked about creating an infographic for flipped educators that would explain in a simple and engaging manner how to use Creative Commons Licenses. Last January, when Jon Bergmann and Aaron Sams visited Milton Keynes en route to…
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Open Educational Resources OER – A Video Primer
Dr. Rory McGreal, Contact Nord Research Associate and the UNESCO/Commonwealth of Learning Chair in Open Educational Resources shares his expertise in a series of 10 short, informative videos that address the what, why, where, and how of OER. Through the videos, Rory guides you to effectively find and make use of…
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OER Impact Map
As OER Research Hub we aggregated and filtered data that relates to our research hypotheses. To see some of the evidence we gathered visit our OER Impact Map. There you will find up to date reporting on each of our hypotheses as well as summaries for different countries and help on using the…
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Whadya mean "openness has won"?
(Reblogged from http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2014/04/whadya-mean-openness-has-won.html ) <Image E Livermore https://flic.kr/p/na6yDz > In my Battle for Open book (and article) I make the claim that openness has been victorious in many respects, and reinforce this by examining the success of open access publishing, OERs, MOOCs and open scholarship. However, to many working in higher education,…
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#oer14 Liveblog – #oer14panel
Coming to you live from Newcastle, UK, I’m going to live-blog the panel discussion. Questions will be in italics and answers in regular text (by initial). The participants are: Allison Littlejohn, Glasgow Caledonian University Mike Sharples, The Open University Jonathan Worth, Coventry University Torie Eva, Pearson Alan Levine, CogDog IT…
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Is There a Gender Divide Around OER and Educational Technology?
The month of March has been a memorable one for our project – it was all about celebration! Like the rest of the OER community we joined in the fun of Open Education Week to help raise awareness of the global Open Education movement and its impact on teaching and learning.…
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Researching open collaboration in the world's smallest states
Did you know that 2014 is the United Nations International Year of Small Island Developing States? The United Nations is celebrating small island developing states (SIDS), of which there are 32 globally, for their ‘vibrant and distinct cultures, diversity and heritage’ and for their people being ‘at the forefront of efforts to…