Category: open research
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Writing for Change: Pre-Course Survey
This post was originally published on Peer 2 Peer University’s blog on 29 September 2014. Are you participating in Peer to Peer University’s (P2PU) Writing for Change course? Did you recently complete a pre-course survey? Curious as to what the survey was about or what the findings were? Well, read on! First,…
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OER Research Hub: August Review
As September beckons, here’s a quick round-up of what’s been happening at the Hub over the past month: Join us to explore Open Research As you might be aware, we’ve been working on our School of Open Open Research course over the past few months … August saw the launch of our…
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Interested in Open Research? Sign-up for our School of Open course!
It’s been in the pipeline for a while now, but we’re super excited to announce that our four-week School of Open Open Research course opened for sign-up yesterday! You can sign-up to participate in our four-week course until Friday 12 September 2014 with the course starting on Monday 15 September. So…
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Cleaning our way to a monster dataset
In February of 2013 the newly put together OERRH team completed the humongous task of creating a bank of survey questions which would be one of the main research instruments to collect data around the project’s eleven hypotheses. Bear one thing in mind: at the time, each of us was…
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Announcing the OERRH/MERLOT collaboration
I’m pleased to announce that our collaborative research with the MERLOT network is being launched today. Based at California State University, MERLOT is a free and open peer reviewed collection of online teaching and learning materials and faculty-developed services contributed and used by an international education community. We’re very pleased to…
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Open Knowledge Festival 2014
Earlier this week I was lucky enough to head to Berlin with colleagues Rob Farrow and Martin Weller to participate in the Open Knowledge Festival (#okfest14) Open Minds to Open Action at the amazing Kulturbrauerei… Thank to everyone we spoke to over the course of the festival; it was great to…
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Elise Adamson on OpenStax College Textbooks
Earlier in the week we heard from Paul Shaber on his experiences of using OpenStax College (OSC) textbooks. Today we’re going to hear from two more educators, who I was fortunate enough to speak with earlier in the year: Elise Adamson and Adrienne Williams. This post is dedicated to excerpts from Elise’s…