Bright future or “learning rot”? Teacher education in India and the potential...
A mood of unsurprised disappointment amongst media commentators accompanied Friday’s release of India’s Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2012 on school registrations and standards in rural...
View ArticleCan OER break down barriers to participation in education?
Photo: Leigh-Anne Perryman CC-BY Are open education models leading to more equitable access to education? The OER Research Hub (OERRH) has spent the past few months gathering evidence around this...
View ArticleThe lofty heights of open: EADTU conference 2013, Paris
Photo credit: Leigh-Anne Perryman CC-BY Dinner in the Eiffel Tower restaurant may have been the physical high point of three days recently spent in Paris attending the 2013 European Association of...
View Article#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...
View ArticleOpen solutions to a ‘national crisis': The impact of OER on teacher education...
Here are the slides for my Open Ed 2013 presentation. If you have any questions or feedback please use the comments below or tweet me via @laperryman. Open solutions to a national crisis: The impact...
View Article#eLearning2014 – Pre-conference OER workshop
I’m in Orlando, Florida (the weather is glorious, unlike the UK) for the eLearning 2014 conference which starts tomorrow. Today I’ve taken part in a pre-conference workshop on OER in Valencia College...
View ArticleReminder: Open Education Week 10-15 March 2014
Rob Farrow:Are you doing something for Open Education Week 2014? Tell us about it by clicking on the ‘Contact Us’ page or in comments below! Originally posted on Open Matters: Open Education Week is a...
View ArticleInnovating at Community Colleges through OER #elearning2014
This presentation at eLearning 2014 brought together a number of OER Research Hub friends in discussion of the way that OER is fuelling innovation in community colleges. They comprise: James...
View ArticleOER + Open Badges
2013 was a year of tremendous growth for Mozilla’s Open Badges. We launched OBI 1.0. We worked with other terrific organizations to build and launch the first city-wide badge initiative, Chicago Summer...
View ArticleRemoving ‘unfreedoms’ through OER: TESS-India research update
Trainee teachers performing morning prayers. Photo credit: Leigh-Anne Perryman CC-BY-SA Alan Tait’s Asa Briggs lecture at the 7th Pan-Commonwealth Forum for Open Learning (PCF7) in Abuja, Nigeria last...
View ArticleResearching open collaboration in the world’s smallest states
ATR 42 (YJ-AV42), Port Vila, Vanuatu. Photo credit: PhillipC on Flickr CC-BY Did you know that 2014 is the United Nations International Year of Small Island Developing States? The United Nations is...
View ArticleResearch on TESS-India localisation reported at OCWC Global 2014
OER ResearchHub Fellow Leigh-Anne Perryman, TESS-India Technical Director Tim Seal and TESS-India Researcher Alison Hemmings-Buckler presented a paper on OER localisation at the OCWC Global conference...
View ArticleReviewing OCWC from the ROER4D perspective – ROER4D
Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, Principal Investigator of the ROE4D Project reports from the OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCWC) Conference held in Ljubljana, Slovenia on the 23-25 April 2014. via Reviewing...
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