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What makes openness in education work? This session will be a team presentation and discussion from several people who are working in IET on the OER Research Hub and related projects. If you are based on campus please join us for this informal ... [More] , face-to-face session, have a cup of coffee/tea (with biscuits!) and contribute to the discussion.  This event will be broadcast live online for every one to watch and will be recorded for replay. Abstract: The OER Research Hub is supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to investigate hypotheses on the benefits of Open Educational Resources. The OER Research Hub gives us a chance both to share expertise we have already gained at the OU through more than six years of high profile work with OER, and to learn from the experiences of other people. We are working in eight collaborations with other groups around the world to investigate their work and bring together findings across different sectors of education.  Other projects that have also allowed us to look at aspects of OER include TRACKOER (JISC supported), Open Education Innovation and Incubation (EU supported), the Bridge2Success (supported by the Next Generation Learning Challenge) as well as OLnet (previously supported by the Hewlett Foundation).  We will use the framework of the OER Research Hub to look at what we bring to work on OER and also what we are learning from the collaborations.  In this session we expect to: Look at the technology and information challenges of working in the open. Discussing how the infrastructure we need to track resources that are openly released. (TRACKOER/OLnet Evidence Hub) See how the practicalities of working with OER cross over with the challenges of running courses in the open (Bridge2Success/OLDS MOOC/Progressive Learning Courses) Show some examples from the eight collaborations to show what we are finding and how we are carrying out our research. (OERRHub) Presenters:  Patrick McAndrew, Dr Leigh-Anne Perryman, Dr Rob Farrow, Dr Beck Pitt, Dr Bea de los Arcos, Simone Arthur, Dr Nick Freear, Claire Walker (IET) Location: Jennie Lee Building Meeting Room 1 Ground Floor Live Link to online broadcastTwitter hashtag: #ouTCMIET TCM 2013 Schedule General information about IET TCMs Podcasts of past events   Please post your feedback in the 'Contribute to the discussion' box below [Less]

What makes openness in education work? This session will be a team presentation and discussion from several people who are working in IET on the OER Research Hub and related projects. If you are based on campus please join us for this informal ... [More] , face-to-face session, have a cup of coffee/tea (with biscuits!) and contribute to the discussion.  This event will be broadcast live online for every one to watch and will be recorded for replay. Abstract: The OER Research Hub is supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to investigate hypotheses on the benefits of Open Educational Resources. The OER Research Hub gives us a chance both to share expertise we have already gained at the OU through more than six years of high profile work with OER, and to learn from the experiences of other people. We are working in eight collaborations with other groups around the world to investigate their work and bring together findings across different sectors of education.  Other projects that have also allowed us to look at aspects of OER include TRACKOER (JISC supported), Open Education Innovation and Incubation (EU supported), the Bridge2Success (supported by the Next Generation Learning Challenge) as well as OLnet (previously supported by the Hewlett Foundation).  We will use the framework of the OER Research Hub to look at what we bring to work on OER and also what we are learning from the collaborations.  In this session we expect to: Look at the technology and information challenges of working in the open. Discussing how the infrastructure we need to track resources that are openly released. (TRACKOER/OLnet Evidence Hub) See how the practicalities of working with OER cross over with the challenges of running courses in the open (Bridge2Success/OLDS MOOC/Progressive Learning Courses) Show some examples from the eight collaborations to show what we are finding and how we are carrying out our research. (OERRHub) Presenters:  Patrick McAndrew, Dr Leigh-Anne Perryman, Dr Rob Farrow, Dr Beck Pitt, Dr Bea de los Arcos, Simone Arthur, Dr Nick Freear, Claire Walker (IET) Location: Jennie Lee Building Meeting Room 1 Ground Floor Live Link to online broadcastTwitter hashtag: #ouTCMIET TCM 2013 Schedule General information about IET TCMs Podcasts of past events   Please post your feedback in the 'Contribute to the discussion' box below [Less]

Abstract: This session will be a team presentation and discussion from several people who are working in IET on the OER Research Hub and related projects.  The OER Research Hub is supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to investigate ... [More] hypotheses on the benefits of Open Educational Resources. The OER Research Hub gives us a chance both to share expertise we have already gained at the OU through more than six years of high profile work with OER, and to learn from the experiences of other people. We are working in eight collaborations with other groups around the world to investigate their work and bring together findings across different sectors of education.  Other projects that have also allowed us to look at aspects of OER include TRACKOER (JISC supported), Open Education Innovation and Incubation (EU supported), the Bridge2Success (supported by the Next Generation Learning Challenge) as well as OLnet (previously supported by the Hewlett Foundation).  We will use the framework of the OER Research Hub to look at what we bring to work on OER and also what we are learning from the collaborations.  In this session we expect to: - Look at the technology and information challenges of working in the open. Discussing how the infrastructure we need to track resources that are openly released. (TRACKOER/OLnet Evidence Hub) - See how the practicalities of working with OER cross over with the challenges of running courses in the open (Bridge2Success/OLDS MOOC/Progressive Learning Courses) - Show some examples from the eight collaborations to show what we are finding and how we are carrying out our research. (OERRHub) Presenter:  Patrick McAndrew (IET) Location: Jennie Lee Building Meeting Room 1 Ground Floor Live Link Twitter hashtag: #ouTCM"TCM 2013 Schedule" "Podcasts of events" [Less]

What makes openness in education work? This session will be a team presentation and discussion from several people who are working in IET on the OER Research Hub and related projects. If you are based on campus please join us for this informal ... [More] , face-to-face session, have a cup of coffee/tea (with biscuits!) and contribute to the discussion.  This event will be broadcast live online for every one to watch and will be recorded for replay. Abstract: The OER Research Hub is supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to investigate hypotheses on the benefits of Open Educational Resources. The OER Research Hub gives us a chance both to share expertise we have already gained at the OU through more than six years of high profile work with OER, and to learn from the experiences of other people. We are working in eight collaborations with other groups around the world to investigate their work and bring together findings across different sectors of education.  Other projects that have also allowed us to look at aspects of OER include TRACKOER (JISC supported), Open Education Innovation and Incubation (EU supported), the Bridge2Success (supported by the Next Generation Learning Challenge) as well as OLnet (previously supported by the Hewlett Foundation).  We will use the framework of the OER Research Hub to look at what we bring to work on OER and also what we are learning from the collaborations.  In this session we expect to: Look at the technology and information challenges of working in the open. Discussing how the infrastructure we need to track resources that are openly released. (TRACKOER/OLnet Evidence Hub) See how the practicalities of working with OER cross over with the challenges of running courses in the open (Bridge2Success/OLDS MOOC/Progressive Learning Courses) Show some examples from the eight collaborations to show what we are finding and how we are carrying out our research. (OERRHub) Presenters:  Patrick McAndrew, Dr Leigh-Anne Perryman, Dr Rob Farrow, Dr Beck Pitt, Dr Bea de los Arcos, Simone Arthur, Dr Nick Freear, Claire Walker (IET) Location: Jennie Lee Building Meeting Room 1 Ground Floor Live Link to online broadcastTwitter hashtag: #ouTCMIET TCM 2013 Schedule General information about IET TCMs Podcasts of past events   Please post your feedback in the 'Contribute to the discussion' box below [Less]

Did you make a video blog and where is it? There are two “Grand Finale” videos, http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/6568 http://podcast.open.ac.uk/pod/trackoer YouTube playlist for Track OER Where is the resultant code? The code is available for ... [More] download under open-source licenses, https://github.com/IET-OU/trackoer-core https://github.com/IET-OU/piwik-trackoer It is installed here, http://track.olnet.org And is LTS using the code now? Does it have plans to? CaPRéT is in use on LabSpace B2S, and the Zip downloads containing tracking codes will be available shortly, http://labspace.open.ac.uk/Learning_to_Learn_1.0 http://labspace.open.ac.uk/Succeed_with_Math_1.0 Could you spell out what this will actually mean for Open Media Unit (OMU) at The Open University in practice? OMU should be able to find out, If OpenLearn/ LabSpace content in being re-used The method (that is, download, or cut and paste), and Something about who is re-using and how – see these custom report configurations. We explored Piwik and Google Analytics based tracking, but in practice, for production purposes we are using GA – a known quantity for OMU. And what will it mean for the Institute of Educational Technology (IET) from a research perspective? We’ve met the objectives of the JISC-funded Track OER project, We've undertaken a successful collaboration with OMU and LTS, including the key OpenLearn developer, Guy Barrett, We are collecting data that can be visualized later, eg. via the OLNet evidence hub, We haven’t yet done integration/ visualization work for the evidence hub (out of scope for Track OER), [Less]

Did you make a video blog and where is it? There are two “Grand Finale” videos, http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/6568 http://podcast.open.ac.uk/pod/trackoer YouTube playlist for Track OER Where is the resultant code? The code is available for ... [More] download under open-source licenses, https://github.com/IET-OU/trackoer-core https://github.com/IET-OU/piwik-trackoer It is installed here, http://track.olnet.org And is LTS using the code now? Does it have plans to? CaPRéT is in use on LabSpace B2S, and the Zip downloads containing tracking codes will be available shortly, http://labspace.open.ac.uk/Learning_to_Learn_1.0 http://labspace.open.ac.uk/Succeed_with_Math_1.0 Could you spell out what this will actually mean for Open Media Unit (OMU) at The Open University in practice? OMU should be able to find out, If OpenLearn/ LabSpace content in being re-used The method (that is, download, or cut and paste), and Something about who is re-using and how – see these custom report configurations. We explored Piwik and Google Analytics based tracking, but in practice, for production purposes we are using GA – a known quantity for OMU. And what will it mean for the Institute of Educational Technology (IET) from a research perspective? We’ve met the objectives of the JISC-funded Track OER project, We've undertaken a successful collaboration with OMU and LTS, including the key OpenLearn developer, Guy Barrett, We are collecting data that can be visualized later, eg. via the OLNet evidence hub, We haven’t yet done integration/ visualization work for the evidence hub (out of scope for Track OER), [Less]