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OER Research Hub: July Round-Up
What’s been happening at the Hub in July? It’s time for our monthly news round-up! Open Textbook Bonanza July kicked off with the release of a range of our research on open textbooks during the aptly...
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Cleaning our way to a monster dataset
CC BY emilydickinsonridesabmx https://flic.kr/p/8UtkEe 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...
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Reflections on the #oerrhub agile approach to evaluation
Originally posted on howsheilaseesIT: Dull but worthy . . .(image: http://pixabay.com/en/notes-office-pages-papers-print-150587/) I’ve already posted some reflections on the agile approach that the...
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One Year On: The Journey of “Open Research”
The following blog post was originally published on School of Open’s blog on 4 November 2014. It’s now been a couple of weeks since we formally ended our four-week Open Research course on P2PU … And...
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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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Boston Children’s Hospital project OPENPediatrics launches new OER resource
Originally posted on Open Matters: As a complement to OCW’s many courses about health and medicine, we’re pleased to share news of a new Open Educational Resource (OER) geared to pediatric clinicians....
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Mark the Date! Open Education Week (9-13 March 2015)
With just over a month to go, Open Education Week is fast approaching! Una Daly from the Open Education Consortium (OEC) tells us more: “Open Education Week (March 9-13, 2015) in its 4th annual year is...
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2015 so far… January and February review
Project Update It may seem a little quiet here at the Hub of late but rest assured we’re hard at work behind the scenes! Since the new year we’ve been particularly focused on writing up our research...
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Launch of OERRH Survey Data Explorer #oeglobal
The OER Research Hub team are at OE Global in Banff, Canada this week, and it seems like a great opportunity to launch the prototype tool we have developed to help people navigate some of our open...
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OER Research Hub – getting started
The OER Research Hub is now three months in but its start still seems such a short time ago so it is worth reflecting on some things that have happened and are happening: the team is building. The...
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Flipped or flipped open?
PHOTO: CC-BY B. de los Arcos Claire Walker and I were scheduled to present at FlipCon13 last Wednesday, June 18th. Sadly, we never made it, as this silly Spaniard single-handedly decided it would be...
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Snapshot: OER Policy
OER Policies are typically established in order to drive change, and there are now clear examples of where policy is being used as an instrument to drive OER. The Creative Commons OER Policy Registry...
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Motivation for Informal Learners
Mozilla Foundation continues to lead the way in developing the infrastructure to support earning and displaying badges. We are likely to see first the wider implementation of badging pilots along with...
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‘Through a glass darkly’ Part 3: OER, critical reflection and educators’...
Photo: ‘Valentine Lightfulness’. h.koppdelaney CC-BY-ND Do OER prompt critical reflection by educators who use them, resulting in improved practice? Part 3 of my blog series on reflection moves from...
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The financial benefits of OER
Many people around the world continue to think of the primary benefits of OER being in cost savings for both providers and consumers of formal education. These claims have perhaps been best...
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Open educational resources: A bridge to formal education?
The relationship between open educational resources and formal education is complex and multifaceted. In the early days of OER, detractors of the OER movement cautioned that universities could suffer...
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Sitrep: Goodbye Cetis, hello ALT and the Open University
Martin Hawksey reflects on joining the OER Research Hub team… Sitrep: Goodbye Cetis, hello ALT and the Open University (MASHe).
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Building an evidence hub plugin for WordPress
I was recently contracted by the Open University to experiment with a solution to record and display evidence for the research hypotheses. Speaking to the project team a number of options were...
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The Lobster Connection
Friday, May 3rd, 2013. I’m in Scarborough Middle School, Maine, US. A banner across the entrance hall reads ‘You Are Now Entering THE KINDNESS ZONE’, a caution for bullies to take a break, I’m told....
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Using WordPress for research data collection and visualization
At the beginning of my contribution to the OU’s OER Research Hub project it was interesting to see a post by Martha Burtis (University of Mary Washington) on WordPress as a Data Collection Tool. There...
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OER Impact Map now open for contributions
I’m pleased to announce the latest addition to the OER Impact Map which now has an outward-facing user interface for entering data. The URL for the entry form is http://chaos.open.ac.uk/submit/. From...
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What we’ve been up to in February
Photo CC BY: B. de los Arcos An update on what the OERRHub team has been up to in February. We kicked off the month with two away days where we discussed the work ahead of us: we are now at a crucial...
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Ethics in the Open
I’ve been spending quite a bit of time recently thinking about the role of ethics in both the work that we do in OER Research Hub, educational research more generally, and how we might deal with the...
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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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OER Impact Map(s): Studio tour
My dad turns 65 this weekend and whilst he should be retiring he’s not and will be still pottering about in the village shop he runs. My dad hasn’t always been a shopkeeper, instead spending most of...
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The OER Survey Exploratoratorium
Exploratory visualization – Data visualizations that are used by the designer for self-informative purposes to discover patterns, trends, or sub-problems in a dataset. Exploratory visualizations...
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Coming Soon… Open Textbook Research Week
Some of you may have participated in the recent open textbook webinar (The Impact of Open Textbooks in the USA and South Africa: When? Why? How?) where I co-presented some of the findings of our recent...
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Hay fevOER: a June update
It is that time of the year when I get watery eyes, a runny nose and I feel I could sneeze my way to the end of the world, but would that stop me from updating you guys on what we’ve been up to in...
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