Category: Reflection
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Impressions from OCWC and OER14 conferences: speaking policy to practicioners
Alek Tarkowski of Creative Commons Poland shares his thoughts on the status of OER policy following a busy conference season. Impressions from OCWC and OER14 conferences: speaking policy to practicioners. | Open Educational Policy for Europe.
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#oer14 Liveblog – #oer14panel
Coming to you live from Newcastle, UK, I’m going to live-blog the panel discussion. Questions will be in italics and answers in regular text (by initial). The participants are: Allison Littlejohn, Glasgow Caledonian University Mike Sharples, The Open University Jonathan Worth, Coventry University Torie Eva, Pearson Alan Levine, CogDog IT…
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A Grand Tour of OER Policy #OER14
Hot off the press ahead of our presentation today here are the slides that myself and OER Research Hub fellow Sara Frank Bristow have put together on global OER policy and the ways that the OER Policy Map might help us to work out what’s going on… feedback welcome!
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Textbook Heroes at CNX2014
Two weeks ago I was participating in CNX2014 at Rice University, Houston. Although I was mainly tweeting from the conference, I did take a few notes which I’ve reproduced below. These notes focus only on Monday’s sessions so, for a more detailed and varied account of what happened, check out the conference hashtag…
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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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Reblog: Three key issues about Open Educational Resources (OERs)
OER Research Hub has been blogged on Learning About eLearning…
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Open Research: OER Research Hub Course Launches June 2014!
What is open research? In what ways can research be open? What do we mean by open in this context? When is it appropriate for research to be open? What does researching openly involve and what makes open research possible? What are the benefits of open research? What kinds of challenges…
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Fellowship visit to the OERRH: highlights
It had been with some trepidation that I approached the OU campus on the first day of my visit. Two and a half years had passed since I moved away from Milton Keynes, so, naturally, I was wondering what might have changed in the place during this time. Unsurprisingly, it…
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Re-blog: New Models for a New Year
Paul Stacey (Creative Commons) wrote a neat retrospective for 2013 at New Models for a New Year. The focus here is on how open models require a rethink of traditional business models across the public and private sectors (including the World Bank’s Global Food Safety Partnership (GFSP) (with which I have been loosely…
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A Battle For Open?
Martin Weller has a thought-provoking editorial in the latest issue of JiME. He argues that many of the battles for open education have been won but that the movement now faces the challenge of balancing all kinds of different aims and aspirations. Is openness about freedom? Is this an argument…