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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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Mapeamento: impacto de REA
Originally posted on Diálogos sobre TIC & Educação: O projeto Open Educational Resources Research Hub, OERRH, conduzido no Institute of Educational Technology da Open University do Reino Unido,...
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Reports from MOOC Research Hub
An exciting new potential source of data came my way this morning as some of my notification services picked up on the reports that have been published as part of MOOC Research Hub, an initiative...
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Open licenses: Play a game and learn how they work
Originally posted on Megan Beckett: I recently held a workshop at Siyavula for the Pan African Open Advocacy Programme to discuss open education, OER and the African context. We had some really...
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Catherine Cronin: Assessment in Open Spaces
Originally posted on Open Assembly Blog: Catherine Cronin shares her experience teaching in a truly open learning space as the progressive “thinning of classroom walls”, making an effective case for...
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Institute for Open Leadership – application deadline approaching
Originally posted on Open World: Earlier this year Cetis were pleased to announce their membership of the Open Policy Network (OPN) launched by Creative Commons and partners in May. One of the first...
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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...
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Some Basic Thoughts About OER Policy
Originally posted on OERSYS: OER policy making is a hot topic, though it is still at its beginning. The 2012 OER Paris declaration recommends to “reinforce the development of strategies and policies...
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EdTech is Widening Skills and Achievement Divides. Why Not Narrow the...
Rob Farrow:Elaine Heinzman outlines the case for public OER that can help children from less affluent backgrounds to develop their learning and technology skills. Originally posted on Open Assembly...
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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...
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Open Education Timeline, meet OER Impact Map
Thanks to a handy embed code I’ve been able to add the Open Education Timeline to the range of data services available at OER Impact Map. You can see it in situ at...
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liveblog – Catherine Cronin keynote at #altc #altc2014
Originally posted on openmind.ed: For one day only I’m at The University of Warwick for the ALT-c conference where I’m speaking on OER Impact Map. (You can access my slides for today here.)...
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liveblog: Predicting Giants at #altc #altc2014
Originally posted on openmind.ed: Here are my notes from this afternoon’s session at the ALT-C 2014 conference. There were three presentations in this session. Richard Walker (University of York) –...
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LRMI Implementation Case Study: OpenStax CNX
Originally posted on Open World: Project lead: Daniel Williamson, CNX “OpenStax believes that everyone has something to learn, and everyone has something to teach. OpenStax CNX is a dynamic non-profit...
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Bibliography of OER, ROER and related subjects
Rob Farrow:Here’s a really useful bibliography of research into open education and OER, courtesy of the wonderful Javiera Atenas with some help from Leo Havemann, and Ernesto Priego. Let them know if...
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Where Sheila’s been this week – revisiting #OERRHub and the researcher as an...
Originally posted on howsheilaseesIT: I spent the early part of this week in Milton Keynes with the OER Research Hub team as part of the second phase of the project evaluation. When I worked with the...
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Thoughts on #OEPSforum14 and the Battle for Open
Originally posted on Open World: This rather crowded map of open education in Scotland is the product of a brief ten minute brainstorm I took part in at the launch of the Open University’s Opening...
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National OER Framework
Originally posted on Paul Stacey: The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is a volatile mix of religion, ancient civilizations, political turmoil, wealth and poverty, beauty, extremism, 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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Community Session: Open Education Handbook
The Open Education Working Group will be participating in an Open Knowledge Community session entitled Presenting the Open Education Handbook. The session will take place online on Thursday Dec 11,...
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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...
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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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USQ Open Textbook Initiative
Rob Farrow:David Jones shares news of funding available to produce open textbooks for the USQ Open Textbook Initiative. Originally posted on The Weblog of (a) David Jones: My institution has some...
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From believer to dOER
http://www.flickr.com/photos/strocel/3869001795/ Well worth a read is this post by Rajiv Jhangiani, Director of the Social and Political Cognition Lab at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and Faculty...
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Call for OER Stories
Originally posted on OER World Map: As reported earlier Rob and Felix hosted a session about the OER World Map project at an unconference which was part of the Hewlett Grantees Meeting in Sausalito...
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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 findings #oeglobal 2015
It’s the morning of day two of Open Education Global 2015 and the team (that is, Bea) will be presenting some of our latest research findings in the Black Bear room at 10.30am. In case you can’t make...
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The Challenge of OER Sustainability
Open World Sustaining the outputs of projects and programmes beyond their initial phase of funding is a weel kent problem but it is one that we still struggle to solve. Back in 2009 when Cetis were...
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OER World Map Project Interim Report
You can read an update on the latest developments of the OER World Map project, which is introducing new functionality all the time. Remember – the project is seeking country champions, strategic...
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Honest and reliable Open Access Journals in Open and Distance Education
As part of Open Access Week, Javiera Atenas has shared the following list of open journals that have good quality control and editorial boards that are respected. If you’re committed to open access...
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