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OER Hub: Looking Forward
One of the things that we need to do as the OER Hub project progresses is keep track of the various research and dissemination activities that we are involved with over the two year period. I have a...
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Data Visualization Tools
There’s a nice list of data visualization tools available on netmagazine. I think it would be really interesting to experiment with a few of these in the context of the redevelopment of the OLnet...
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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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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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Foothill Technology Conference 2013
Last week I was in Northern California attending the Foothill College in partnership with Innovative Educators 2nd Annual Tech Conference. I was only able to attend the first day as I was speaking at...
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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...
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#opened13 Keynotes: Audrey Watters
This presentation began with a general discussion – informed by Audrey’s background as a folklore scholar – of apocalyptic prediction. Apocalypse and crisis are motifs that are common in contemporary...
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#opened13 Keynotes: David Kernohan
David began by running out of the room (to jump in the chilly outside pool) only to be followed on camera in a segue that led to a video documentary (‘The Avalanche That Never Happened’) about the...
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MozFest 2013 and Mapping OER around the World
Originally posted on methylated-orange: Before we all headed off to OpenEd earlier in November and got stuck into our data analysis sprint last week (coding and cleaning some of the data we’ve amassed...
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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...
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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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The value of an #OERmap
It’s all been pretty busy here at the OERRH HQ. Conference season has now ended and with a bit of time to draw breath I’m writing about the recent OER Map prototypes funded by Hewlett Foundation....
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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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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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Putting a pin in a map: Mapping evidence from OERRH Research Hub surveys
As part of the OER Research Hub the community has been asked to respond to surveys examining OER awareness and usage. This has been done using the online web service SurveyMonkey. One of the features...
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Selecting a school tablet
Using technology, schools have been able to revolutionize education, making it more accessible and even cheaper to acquire. Unlike the olden days, it has become very easy to get books and even entire...
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