Category: open research
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Open Research Open Textbook Out Now!
We are super excited to announce that a new open textbook version of our award winning course Open Research is out now! Hosted on the awesome Pressbooks this new textbook edition builds on our earlier facilitated versions of the course by including group activities and incorporating participant contributions into new activity commentary sections. You can now…
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What’s new at the Hub this Fall?
With the academic year beginning and the nights drawing in (well, here in the UK at least) it’s a good time to share with you what we’ve been up to and where we’ll be over the coming few months. First up, keep your eyes peeled for the promised Fall launch…
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All the (open) courses…!
Over the past year or so we’ve been busy co-developing a number of open courses as part of our collaborative work. These include the badged open course Becoming an Open Educator which was created as part of the Opening Educational Practices in Scotland (OEPS) project and which explores open education through the lens of…
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Introducing our new look and summer update!
Back in September we announced we would be widening our foci to researching the impact of open education more broadly and would be undergoing a rebrand to reflect this wider remit. If you’ve seen us at events and conferences, or been regularly dropping by to this website, you might have noticed that we’ve…
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JIME: OER15 Special Collection
The latest issue of the Journal of Interactive Media in Education (JiME) is now out! Guest-edited by myself and the lovely Bea de los Arcos, the issue brings together outstanding papers from last year’s OER15 conference in Cardiff, Wales. The OER15 conference marked the first one under the remit of the…
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The Open Research Agenda (1)
As we look forward to Open Education Week it’s time to share the first round of results of our ‘Open Research Agenda’ consultation exercise. The idea behind this is to try to bring a developed conversation to conferences rather than having interesting discussions that tail off after an event. We’re also…
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Constellations of Open (Utah Valley)
Here are my slides from my presentation at the Open Education Symposium at Utah Valley University. If you’re interested in contributing to the forthcoming research consultation we are terming ‘Open Research Agenda’ you can find the short survey form at http://tinyurl.com/2016ora.
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New Report Out Now! Exploring the Use and Impact of OER in British Columbia
Earlier this week I was excited and proud to see the publication of our collaborative research with BCcampus. The report Exploring Faculty Use of Open Educational Resources at British Columbia post-secondary institutions explores educator use, perceptions and impacts of OER, open licensing and also examines awareness and use of open textbooks produced by the…
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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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The State of Open Research, and of Research on Open
Martin Weller, Rob Farrow and Beck Pitt are guests of Thompson Rivers University this week, where they are taking part in the Opening Up TRU event. As part of this, Rob and Beck took part in a panel discussion on Open Research with David Kernohan, Vivian Rolfe and Tannis Morgan.…