Calling all Librarians: Open Access Week is Go!

From a rainy Milton Keynes we wish you all a very happy Open Access Week! Over the next week people around the world will be promoting and discussing openness in research. Events range from promoting publishing in open access journals (and the benefits of doing so, see this CARL ABRC video) to holding comedy film festivals, discussing … Continue reading →

Connexions Conference Interview Footage Out Now!

Following on from my research trip to Houston in April 2013 (see the blogposts on the Personalized Learning workshop, and Connexions conference posts one and two), I’m really pleased to announce that the first two OER Research Hub videos from the trip are now available!  First up is an interview with Richard Baraniuk of Connexions. … Continue reading →

OER, At-Risk and Non-Traditional Students

Just over 10 years ago a US Department of Education report noted that at the turn of the millenium “…73% of all undergraduates were in some way non-traditional.” (Choy, 2002, 1) Moreover, as the report goes on to describe, this type of student faces specific issues and barriers to successfully completing their education and have … Continue reading →

Personalized Learning Workshop (Rice, 22 April 2013)

Pictures from yesterday’s conference, Rice and Houston… (All pictures: CC-BY Beck Pitt)

And We Have Lift Off!

Greetings from Houston! The First Personalized Learning Workshop at Rice University is underway… I’ve been tweeting from the conference (check out @Beck Pitt), but also wrote a blog post to cover the first of the morning sessions. So (better late than never) here goes… Remarking on the “personalized Houston weather” as fitting for the conference, … Continue reading →

Friday = an (un)official MOOC day

Last Friday (un)officially became a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) day after I got stuck into participating in and looking at the two MOOCs which I signed up for recently. The first is the OLDS-MOOC “Learning Design for a 21st Century Curriculum” which is a JISC funded MOOC, led by colleagues here in IET, but … Continue reading →

Day Three!

Well, here’s my first blog post… on the third day of my new role at the Open University (UK)! I’ve moved from the Project Support Office in the Institute of Educational Technology to join the Open Educational Resources (OER) Research Hub project (OERRH) as a Research Assistant. The aim of this project is to assess … Continue reading →