Category: open research
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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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Open Research 2015 Panel Session: 8 October 2015
It’s come round quick but next week is the FINAL facilitated week of this year’s Open Research course on P2PU. We’ve had a blast meeting you all and reading your comments, suggestions and experiences so far. Thank you! To celebrate the end of this year’s course, we’re hosting a special…
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Data Report 2013-2015: Educators
This post follows the release of Data Report 2013-2015: Informal Learners and Data Report 2013-2015: Formal Learners To recap: In 2013 the Hewlett-funded OER Research Hub Project created a bank of survey questions to test eleven hypotheses related to the impact of OER use on teaching and learning. In the two years that followed,…
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Open Research 2015 Launches for Sign-Up!
At the beginning of August I blogged about the return of our award winning open research course on P2PU’s School of Open this Fall. Well, I’m excited to announce that the course is now live and will run from Monday 14 September – Sunday 11 October 2015. Sign-up is now open so…
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It's here! Open Research Redux
Last year we received an amazing response to the launch of our first open course Open Research on P2PU’s School of Open. 139 of you, from at least 29 different countries across six continents, signed up to participate in the first iteration of our four-week course. Well, we’re excited to announce that we’re doing it…
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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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From believer to dOER
Well worth a read is this post by Rajiv Jhangiani, Director of the Social and Political Cognition Lab at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and Faculty Fellow with the BC Campus Open Textbook Project. Rajiv has been working with Beck Pitt on faculty adoption of open resources at BC campus. In this post…
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OER in schools
Despite great initiatives like the DigiLit Leicester project on these shores and K12 OER Collaborative in the US, OER folks’ attention does not focus often enough on the K-12/school scene. TJ Bliss writes “If we want OER to become the default, we need people to use OER and to know…
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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…