Category: open research
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CFP: Research in Underexamined Areas of Open Educational Resources
There’s a new call for papers at https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/10988/research-in-underexamined-areas-of-open-educational-resources which may be of interest to readers of the blog. Part of the framing for this work is the need to transcend studies which concentrate on cost savings and efficacy in favour of non-Western perspectives and innovative methods. There is also an…
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Report: Massive Open Online Courses for Employability, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
We are pleased to announce the publication of a new report produced for the ECM-LM project. The European MOOC Consortium brings together higher education, MOOC platforms and representatives of public and private sectors in a Knowledge Alliance. This report was written to provide a shared understanding of the evidence base…
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Report: Models for online, open, flexible and technology enhanced higher education
Regular readers of these pages may recall that last year we shared information about a research collaboration between OER Hub and FiBS and put out a global call to share information about educational delivery for a comparative study. We shared interim results from the project back in October, but I’m…
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Global OER Graduate Network 2018 Seminar Report #go_gn
Here’s a report on this year’s GO-GN workshops from Bea de los Arcos, reblogged from http://go-gn.net/go-gn/what-happened-when-we-put-14-phd-researchers-inside-an-ikea-hotel/. Check out the website for more information about doctoral research into open education taking place around the world: Tuko Panoja! After Cape Town in 2013 and 2017, Ljubljana and Washington in 2014, Banff in 2015…
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Hub Holiday Round-Up!
Yes, it’s that time of the year again! We might have been a bit quiet on the social media front recently but rest assured there’s been lots going on behind the scenes. Here’s a little round up of some of our highlights over the past year. And of course, we’d also…
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Call for participation: UK Open Textbooks
The Hewlett Foundation has provided funding for a research project which will be led by OER Hub at The Open University (UK). The focus of the work will be the use of open textbooks in the UK. Open textbooks have seen impressive growth and impact in the North American context, through…
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#liveblog : #openresearch in #openeducationwk
Today we conducted our first workshop around the theme of open research at The Open University during Open Education Week. This workshop draws on our experiences from OER Research Hub and the materials generated for our award-winning course on P2Pu and our textbook on Open Research. The session was attended…
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OER Hub activity in #openeducationwk 2017
As ever, there is a lot happening here at the Hub and Open Education Week 2017 provides a great opportunity to update everyone on what we’ve been up to. With our GO-GN hat on we recently returned from South Africa where we ran our annual workshop for PhD students. You…
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The Hub in Review 2016
With the end of 2016 fast approaching, the OER Hub team would like to both thank you for your support over the past year and wish you all a peaceful and enjoyable holiday season. Here’s to a great year ahead! As we look forward we’re also taking a moment to…
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OER Hub Researcher Toolkit Out Now!
Way back during the first phase of the Hub we released all our tools and methodologies in the open for reuse and review by other researchers. We are delighted to hear that they have been of use to others when planning their own research on the impact of open education. However,…