Tag: oer research
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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…
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Ethics, Openness and the Future of Education
By popular demand, here are my slides from today’s presentation at Open Education 2014. All feedback welcome and if this subject is of interest to you then consider checking out the OERRH Ethics Manual and the section on ethics (week 2) of our Open Research course.
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OERRH OER Evidence Report 2013-2014
It gives me great pleasure to announce that OER Research Hub is now ready to release the first of its dissemination reports. The ‘OER Evidence Report 2013-2014’ brings together a range of evidence around the research hypotheses of the product and provides an overview of the impact OER is having…
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Cleaning our way to a monster dataset
In February of 2013 the newly put together OERRH team completed the humongous task of creating a bank of survey questions which would be one of the main research instruments to collect data around the project’s eleven hypotheses. Bear one thing in mind: at the time, each of us was…
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Announcing the OERRH/MERLOT collaboration
I’m pleased to announce that our collaborative research with the MERLOT network is being launched today. Based at California State University, MERLOT is a free and open peer reviewed collection of online teaching and learning materials and faculty-developed services contributed and used by an international education community. We’re very pleased to…
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The Role of OER in a New World of MOOC
Recently I attended a mini conference dedicated to Open Educational Resources (OER). I found it to be quite interesting as there aren’t many events completely dedicated to OER these days. In fact, the organizers made it quite clear that the event was exclusively for discussing all matters OER. However, maybe…
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ICDE: useful papers on open education and MOOC
The International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) recently published a shortlist of reports and papers which were published in the last year. I’m reproducing the list here because I think it might be a useful source of data for OER Impact Map once we embark on the next…
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OER Impact Map
As OER Research Hub we aggregated and filtered data that relates to our research hypotheses. To see some of the evidence we gathered visit our OER Impact Map. There you will find up to date reporting on each of our hypotheses as well as summaries for different countries and help on using the…
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Storify: OER Research Hub at OCWC Global 2014
The 2014 OCWC Global conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, was an eventful one for the OER Research Hub. This Storify presents a selection of tweets tracking the high points of the conference for the OER Research Hub team. The storify also has links to the presentations made by OER Research Hub researchers.…