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Six things I learned at the Hewlett OER 2013 meeting San Diego
The Hewlett Foundation supported OER meeting this year had two important differences: It combined the Open Educational Resources projects with those who were working on the Deeper Learning strand of the Helwett Education Program; It took place in a high school rather than a university (last year it was…
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#oer13 live blog – keynote by Doug Belshaw
Doug‘s talk was divided into three sections. Experience / Ambiguity We don’t want things to be completely unambiguous because they are likely to become cliches. As Rorty (1989) claims, metaphors die off into literalness. ‘Things can be more or less ambiguous’: Aristotle claimed that the reason that things are ambiguous…
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#oer13 live blog – Welcome by Alan Ford
Alan is the PVC for teaching and learning at The University of Nottingham, which is the venue for this years conference. Their interest in OER began in 2006: the U-Now website was launched in 2007 and became part of the OCWC consortium in 2008. In 2010 the university continues to…
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About flipped learning
Picture this: you are a Chemistry teacher in a school in Colorado; it’s Friday and you give kids a test; some kid fails, what do you do on Monday? You move on –“I’m sorry kid, I hope you can figure it out between now and the next test”. It sounds…
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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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Call for Proposals: OER Research Hub Fellowships
The OER Research Hub (OERRH) is delighted to announce its call for short-term researcher fellowships at The Open University, United Kingdom. Applications are invited from candidates who have an interest in undertaking research on the impact of OER on learning and teaching practices. Successful applicants will have the opportunity to collaborate directly with the project,…