Category: Tess-India
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Celebrate #YearOfOpen at The Open University
As you’re probably aware 2017 is #YearOfOpen … a 365 day celebration of open education and the anniversary of a number of key milestones in its development, including the Cape Town Declaration, 15 years since the Budapest Open Access Initiative, and the 5th anniversary of the Paris OER Declaration. We’re excited to…
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May Update: What's new at the Hub?
The weather may have cooled down since Bea’s review of our activity in April, but it’s been another scorcher of a month here at the OER Research Hub (OERRH) during May… Visitors Fresh back from OER14 in Newcastle, we were honoured to host our final open fellow, Alan Levine, here at the…
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Research on TESS-India localisation reported at OCWC Global 2014
OER ResearchHub Fellow Leigh-Anne Perryman, TESS-India Technical Director Tim Seal and TESS-India Researcher Alison Hemmings-Buckler presented a paper on OER localisation at the OCWC Global conference in LjubLjana, Slovenia this week. Here are our slides. The presentation notes are here.
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Removing 'unfreedoms' through OER: TESS-India research update
Alan Tait’s Asa Briggs lecture at the 7th Pan-Commonwealth Forum for Open Learning (PCF7) in Abuja, Nigeria last December presented a compelling summary of the role of open education and open educational resources (OER) in international development contexts, referencing development economist and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen’s ‘capability’ approach, which sees the aims of development as…
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Open solutions to a 'national crisis': The impact of OER on teacher education in India
Here are the slides for my Open Ed 2013 presentation. If you have any questions or feedback please use the comments below or tweet me via @laperryman. Open solutions to a national crisis: The impact of OER on teacher education in India
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Can OER break down barriers to participation in education?
Are open education models leading to more equitable access to education? The OER Research Hub (OERRH) has spent the past few months gathering evidence around this question in connection with OERRH hypothesis C – ‘Open education models lead to more equitable access to education, serving a broader base of learners than traditional…
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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.…
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Bright future or "learning rot"? Teacher education in India and the potential of OER
A mood of unsurprised disappointment amongst media commentators accompanied Friday’s release of India’s Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2012 on school registrations and standards in rural India. The Deccan Herald announced the report with the headline ‘RTE unable to stem learning rot amongst tots’, referring to the 2010-dated Right…