Category: questionnaires
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Snapshot of the TAACCCT OER Community Pt.2
This blog post is Part 2 in a series about my research on the U.S. Department of Labor Trade Adjustment Assistance for Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) OER project as part of my work with Creative Commons on the OPEN project, and my fellowship with the OER Research Hub.…
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Siyavula Educator Survey Results: Impact of Using Siyavula (Part IV)
This is the final part of a four-part series of blog posts co-authored by Beck Pitt (OER Research Hub researcher) and Megan Beckett (Siyavula). You can read our posts on the Siyavula educator sample and background to the study here, more on education in South Africa here and more on…
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OpenStax College Student Survey Results (Part II)
Welcome to part two of the OpenStax College (OSC) student survey findings. In this post we look more closely at some of the findings relating to the use and impact of OSC open textbooks. You can check back to Part I for the background to these findings, an overview of the…
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Siyavula Educator Survey Results: OER Behaviours and Attitudes (Part III)
This is the penultimate post of our four-part series of co-authored posts by Beck Pitt (OER Research Hub researcher) and Megan Beckett (Siyavula) on the Siyavula educator survey findings. Previous posts focused on the Siyavula educator sample and educational contexts in South Africa. The final post will focus on educators’ attitudes and use of Siyavula. Today we’re looking…
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OpenStax College Student Survey Results (Part I)
As was mentioned at the end of March (see earlier blog post) in addition to carrying out an OpenStax College (OSC) educator survey (for updated results see here) we also asked students about their use of OER and OSC textbooks. The bulk of respondents to this survey were drawn from the November OpenStax…
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Siyavula Educator Survey Results: Educational Contexts (Part II)
This is the second of a four-part series of blog posts co-authored by Beck Pitt (OER Research Hub researcher) and Megan Beckett (Siyavula). You can read our posts on the Siyavula educator sample and background to the study here, more on educators’ attitudes and behaviours toward OER on Thursday and…
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OpenStax College Educator Survey Results (The Return!)
As some of you might remember, I keenly blogged some of the provisional OpenStax College (OSC) Educator survey results whilst I was in Houston for CNX2014 in April. Since then, there’s been some very minor changes made to these results and so I’m pleased to be able to correct these…
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In the OERRH spotlight- Flipped Learning
Today’s Open Education Week focus at the OER Research Hub (OERRH) is on Flipped Learning. One of the OERRH’s research collaborations is the Flipped Learning Network (FLN), a community of teachers whose mission is ‘to provide educators with the knowledge, skills and resources to successfully implement Flipped Learning’. Together, we have been working…
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Educating in Beta
Current activity within open education can be characterised as having reached a beta phase of maturity. In much the same way that software progresses through a release life cycle, beta is the penultimate testing phase, after the initial alpha-testing phase, whereby the software is adopted beyond its original developer community.…