Category: Progress
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Hay fevOER: a June update
It is that time of the year when I get watery eyes, a runny nose and I feel I could sneeze my way to the end of the world, but would that stop me from updating you guys on what we’ve been up to in June? Hang on, let me…
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Coming Soon… Open Textbook Research Week
Some of you may have participated in the recent open textbook webinar (The Impact of Open Textbooks in the USA and South Africa: When? Why? How?) where I co-presented some of the findings of our recent educator surveys with open fellow Megan Beckett (Siyavula) and linked fellow Daniel Williamson (OpenStax College, OSC). The webinar was…
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The OER Survey Exploratoratorium
Exploratory visualization – Data visualizations that are used by the designer for self-informative purposes to discover patterns, trends, or sub-problems in a dataset. Exploratory visualizations typically don’t have an already-known story. Iliinsky & Steele, 2011 There is a certain power from letting people explore a dataset, many eyes having the…
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OER Impact Map(s): Studio tour
My dad turns 65 this weekend and whilst he should be retiring he’s not and will be still pottering about in the village shop he runs. My dad hasn’t always been a shopkeeper, instead spending most of his life working as a land surveyor. Land surveyors were traditionally key members…
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OER Impact: Collaboration, Evidence, Synthesis
The OER ResearchHub researchers are presently in LjubLjana, Slovenia for the the OCWC Global conference. I’ll be speaking this afternoon and these are the slides I’ll be using… feedback welcome!
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Ethics in the Open
I’ve been spending quite a bit of time recently thinking about the role of ethics in both the work that we do in OER Research Hub, educational research more generally, and how we might deal with the specific challenges raised by a commitment to working ‘in the open’. So this…
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What we've been up to in February
An update on what the OERRHub team has been up to in February. We kicked off the month with two away days where we discussed the work ahead of us: we are now at a crucial stage of the project so it was important to sit together and set definite…
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OER Impact Map now open for contributions
I’m pleased to announce the latest addition to the OER Impact Map which now has an outward-facing user interface for entering data. The URL for the entry form is http://chaos.open.ac.uk/submit/. From here you can select which hypothesis your evidence relates to; add a geocode; and tag sectors. Once this information is…
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Using WordPress for research data collection and visualization
At the beginning of my contribution to the OU’s OER Research Hub project it was interesting to see a post by Martha Burtis (University of Mary Washington) on WordPress as a Data Collection Tool. There are a number of parallels between the work Martha has been doing and the OER Research…
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The Lobster Connection
Friday, May 3rd, 2013. I’m in Scarborough Middle School, Maine, US. A banner across the entrance hall reads ‘You Are Now Entering THE KINDNESS ZONE’, a caution for bullies to take a break, I’m told. I’m here with Sarah Morriseau from the Gulf of Maine Research Institute to visit Mrs. B’s science…