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  • OER, STEM and General Education #elearning2014

    It’s the final morning here at eLearning2014 and also the last session with an OER focus.  We have a panel of experts from colleges around the USA talking about James Glapa-Grossklag, Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources, and Distance Learning, College of the Canyons Jean Runyon, Associate Vice President, Learning Advancement and the…

  • OER Impact at Community Colleges #elearning2014

    Here are my slides from today’s presentation at eLearning 2014 with a textual summary of the findings below.  A record of the discussion from todays session will be added soon… Thanks to the organisers from the Instructional Technology Council for inviting me to come and speak! Most of the respondents…

  • 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…

  • 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

  • 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…

  • Evidence of OER Impact #opened13

    Here are my slides for tomorrow’s presentation at Open Ed 2013.  You can provide feedback through the comments below or tweet me via @philosopher1978. OER Impact: Towards an Evidence Base from Robert Farrow If you’d like to submit evidence to our project you may do so here. Here’s the voting…

  • 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…

  • Rob's Report from Educause #edu13

    I’ve spent the last few days here in Anaheim (a stone’s throw from Disneyland) at the annual Educause conference.  It’s my first time here and I’ve found a few things that were surprising or of note.  The first thing to say is that this is a very well organised and…

  • Supporting Informal Learners Openly

    This entry relates to our hypothesis on support for informal learners, which is phrased as follows: Informal learners adopt a variety of techniques to compensate for the lack of formal support, which can be supported in open courses As one might expect, informal learners appear to use a wide range of…

  • 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…