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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known: nine surveys for OER...
Photo credit: Carl Jones CC-BY-NC-ND via Compfight Astronomer and writer Dr Carl Sagan is probably mis-credited as saying that ‘somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known’, though the...
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NOVA Focus Group: Initial Thoughts
On Friday I visited Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) to run an OER focus group with instructional designers and teachers. We’ll be using the data collected as part of the project’s...
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“O” is for… Open?
Go O’s! (Photo Credit: Beck Pitt CC-BY) …Or could it be “Orioles”?! Seriously though, besides checking out my first baseball game, the time in Baltimore to date has been a great opportunity for...
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SPARCing debate on Open Access
As part of our field work in Washington DC last month I met with Heather Joseph who is Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), a membership organization...
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What Makes Openness Work?
Here are our slides from today’s project presentation at the Institute of Educational Technology. A podcast for the event can be accessed here:...
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MOOC Evaluation & Disruptive Technologies
The OLDS MOOC (Open Learning Design Studio MOOC) evaluation report by Simon Cross has just been published and I thought it was worth a quick look. OLDS MOOC, based at The Open University, was a...
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FutureLearn Launch & Media Roundup
While 2012 was perhaps the year of peak MOOC fever, the bubble evidently has yet to burst. A consortium of UK universities led by The Open University has launched today with 20 pilot courses including...
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7th Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning opens in Nigeria
Delegates begin to arrive for the Opening Ceremony. Photo: Leigh-Anne Perryman CC-BY Nigeria certainly knows how to hold an opening ceremony. I’ve just walked up a long red carpet into Abuja’s...
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Reminder: Open Education Week 10-15 March 2014
Rob Farrow:Are you doing something for Open Education Week 2014? Tell us about it by clicking on the ‘Contact Us’ page or in comments below! Originally posted on Open Matters: Open Education Week is a...
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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...
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A search guide for quality OER
Rob Farrow:I wonder how useful people find this kind of Amazon style ratings system for OER… Originally posted on SPSCC Center for Innovative Teaching & Learning: [sent via Boyoung Chae from the...
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Reblog: OER benefits for enrolled students
Rob Farrow:Therese Bird provides a summary of some of the benefits that have been reported for using OER with students. The linked article by CK-12 Foundation gives a couple of examples of OER Impact...
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Researching open collaboration in the world’s smallest states
ATR 42 (YJ-AV42), Port Vila, Vanuatu. Photo credit: PhillipC on Flickr CC-BY Did you know that 2014 is the United Nations International Year of Small Island Developing States? The United Nations is...
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OER Impact: Collaboration, Evidence, Synthesis
The OER ResearchHub researchers are presently in LjubLjana, Slovenia for the the OCWC Global conference. I’ll be speaking this afternoon and these are the slides I’ll be using… feedback welcome!
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Reviewing OCWC from the ROER4D perspective – ROER4D
Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, Principal Investigator of the ROE4D Project reports from the OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCWC) Conference held in Ljubljana, Slovenia on the 23-25 April 2014. via Reviewing...
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OER Impact Map
We aggregate and filter data that relates to our research hypotheses.To see some of the evidence we have gathered visit our OER Impact Map. There you will find up to date reporting on each of our...
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Open Educational Resources OER – A Video Primer
Dr. Rory McGreal, Contact Nord Research Associate and the UNESCO/Commonwealth of Learning Chair in Open Educational Resources shares his expertise in a series of 10 short, informative videos that...
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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...
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Hub Highlights
As we move forward to our next phase as the Open Research Centre, it’s time to take a quick look at some of our “Hub Highlights” from the past 2.5 years: With over 7,000 respondents spread across 182...
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Thinking About Open: Workshop Tour I
OEPScotland Last week (w/c 26 October) saw myself and Bea conduct the first of our workshop tours and participate in a number of events. Here’s a brief rundown of the highlights and a summary of notes...
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