By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Hits & thoughts ain't evidence. Martin Weller. As Martin Weller summarizes, "The impact map (http://oermap.org/) has been developed largely by Rob Farrow and Martin Hawksey, and features lots of Hawksey-goodness. You can do the following on the map:

• Look at evidence for any one of our 11 hypotheses (eg. for hypothesis A regarding performance)
• Look at the flow of evidence
• Examine evidence by country
• Filter evidence by sector, polarity, hypothesis, country
• Explore the map for OER policies (a work in progress)."

This is more than I was expecting from the OER mapping project, so I'm pleasantly surprised. More...

By Tanya Roscorla. A former White House appointee calls for technology collaboration between government, higher education and the community at large. This century, we face a much larger challenge than bringing 100 gigabyte connectivity to college campuses. We have to figure out how to feed 9 billion people and decrease poverty. Government, higher education and citizens must all come to the table and work together to solve this problem with the help of technology, said Chris Vein, chief innovation officer for global information and communications technology at the World Bank. More...

Date: 9 Jul 2014
Start Time: 10:00 am
Location/venue: theStudio, 7 Cannon Street, Birmingham, B2 5EP
This event is part of the HEA Social Sciences strategic priority 'Teaching research methods'.
This event is ideally suited to colleagues who teach research methods, both qualitative and quantitative, in the social sciences and would like to develop their use of open access datasets and/or software. Book on this event. More...

By e-share. McAndrew, P., Scanlon, E. and Clow, D. (2010) ‘An open future for higher education’ [online], EDUCAUSE Review Online, (EQ) 33/1, http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/open-future-higher-education (last accessed 31 Jan 2014). In addition to using my blog for this module I also use Diigo for storing articles and my annotations of those articles. In this post I am just providing an overall summary of my thoughts on the paper but you can see my annotations by visiting https://groups.diigo.com/group/udol2011. More...

By e-share. OLnet – the Open Learning network is a website dedicated to Open Educational Resources, so what can it offer educators in relation to their practice?
Firstly, this in not one tool, as the Technology Enhanced Learning Research Programme (2013) explains, TEL (Technology Enhanced Learning) is complex and is characterised as a bricolage. More...

By e-share. Since the inception of Open Educational Resources (OER) in 2001, pioneered by MIT’s OpenCourseWare and announced on the front page of the New York Times (Goldberg, 2001), there have been a plethora of new developments over the years, within the UK and Internationally. The steady increase in the quality and range of these resources has been guided by such groups as UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) who coined the phrase OER in 2002 and  SCORE (Support Centre for Open Resources in Education) an Open University and HEFCE  (Higher Education Funding Council for England) joint venture between 2009 – 2012 (SCORE, undated). More...