Category: Reflection
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#OWLTEH18 and #MozFest18
October saw the Hub team head Stateside to present and contribute to #OpenEd18 in Niagara Falls, USA before rounding up the month by participating in both MozFest, the Mozilla Foundation annual festival in London, and a Mozfest fringe event at The Coventry Transport Museum. The fringe event – Learning On/With The Open Web – was…
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Celebrating #YearOfOpen here at the OU!
Thanks to everyone who participated either face-to-face, or online, in last week’s OER Hub hosted celebration of all things open here at The Open University (UK)! Wednesday 20 June saw colleagues from across the University come together to share their ideas and experiences of openness as part of 2017’s #YearOfOpen international celebrations…
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#liveblog : #openresearch in #openeducationwk
Today we conducted our first workshop around the theme of open research at The Open University during Open Education Week. This workshop draws on our experiences from OER Research Hub and the materials generated for our award-winning course on P2Pu and our textbook on Open Research. The session was attended…
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OER Hub: An Introduction
Here are the slides from today’s presentation at OpenTEL at The Open University (UK). This presentation is a quick introduction to the work of our group and our current projects. OER Hub: An Overview from OER Hub
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Twitter 101 Workshop
On 26 October 2016, as part of Open Access week, we held the first of our face-to-face workshops at The Open University (UK) … Twitter 101! As the name implies, the workshop was aimed at people who are new to microblogging with Twitter. We kicked off by looking at some Twitter basics and explored…
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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.…
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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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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…