Category: research
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ROER4D: OER Impact in the Global South
This afternoon the OER Research Hub team had an interesting conference call with ROER4D, an OER research project with some similarities to our own which is based in Cape Town, South Africa. They are working across South America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Cental and South East Asia to meet the following…
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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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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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Saylor Survey Report
We’ve had an impressive – if not overwhelming – response for our survey of Saylor.org learners who have been completing our ‘informal learners’ survey. We have now closed the survey but we received 3,101 responses in just under six weeks! Truly this surpassed my wildest expectation, and reflects the kind…
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A note from OERRH Open Fellow Sara Frank Bristow
I arrived at the OER Research Hub on 7 October 2013, intent on diving immediately into a study examining the Hub’s Hypothesis J: that Participation in OER pilots and programs leads to policy change at the institutional level. I dramatically underestimated how overstimulating an environment I’d find the Open University (and…
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Good morning snowy Utah!
October to November 2013 sees the OER Research Hub team, variously, on tour. In my previous blog post I reported on my trip to Paris to present at the EADTU 2013 conference. The temperature was mild during my stay, indeed quite warm at times. Not so in Park City, Utah, where…
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The lofty heights of open: EADTU conference 2013, Paris
Dinner in the Eiffel Tower restaurant may have been the physical high point of three days recently spent in Paris attending the 2013 European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU) conference. However, the academic high point of the conference was gaining a bird’s-eye view of the development of open education across…
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Public Access to Publicly Funded Materials: What Could Be
Here’s a reblog that’s worth checking out. OER Research Hub fellow Bill Meinke makes the case for open models of research, dissemination and education with the help of some nice (although possibly a bit contentious) graphics to explain the potential benefits of open policies. Public Access to Publicly Funded Materials:…