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OER Hub


Country champion for: 
  • United Kingdom

Tags: 
  • oer research

Description

OER Hub is a research team based at The Institute of Educational Technology at The Open University, UK. They provide research consultancy and capacity building in open education.

The OER Hub team have won several awards including the Open Research Award fromOEGlobal (2014), the OU Engaging Research Award for the Open Researcher Course (2015) and Open MOOC award for the ExplOERer course from OEGlobal (2016). Martin Weller was also awarded a Professorial chair by the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) in particular recognition of the OER Hub project.

Link

oerhub.net


Tags

  • oer research

Primary educational sector

  • Cross-sector

Contact Person

  • Dr. Rob Farrow
    Dr. Rob Farrow

    I'm a Research Fellow at The Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University (UK). I've worked on a range of research projects around open education (including OER Hub and Global OER Graduat...

Provides

  • Digital Skills, Digital Learning

    This free course will help you understand how you can use MOOCs for learning, and how you can grow professionally studying a MOOC, whether or not you are already in employment....

Project lead in

  • UK Open Textbook Project
    UK Open Textbook Project

    Open Textbooks have seen impressive growth and impact in the North American context, through providers and initiatives such as OpenStax, the Open Textbook Network, BC Campus, and Lumen Learning. With ...

Partner in

  • Bringing Learning to Life

    A scheme to bring free Level 1 Functional Skills courses to tens of thousands of people via online learning has been launched by the OU in partnership with Further Education (FE) Colleges in England. ...

Affiliated persons

  • Dr. Rob Farrow
    Dr. Rob Farrow

    I'm a Research Fellow at The Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University (UK). I've worked on a range of research projects around open education (including OER Hub and Global OER Graduat...

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  • Martin Weller
    Martin Weller

    Professor of Educational Technology at the Open University. Director of the OER Hub ICDE Chair in OER Author of The Battle for Open Interested in impact of OER, and open approaches in education genera...

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Publications

  • Bringing Learning to Life: Evaluation of Everyday Skills in maths and English

    This report describes and analyses survey data responses, web analytics and other data relating to the Bringing Learning to Life project. Bringing Learning to Life was funded by the Department for Ed...

Mentioned in

  • Helping OER providers to better understand their audiences and their needs

    Saylor Academy provides complete free, college-level courses presented similarly to enrollment majors at traditional U.S. colleges. Consultant subject experts and instructional designers create outlin...

  • We shared our expertise in OER impact research by collaborating with researchers in the Global South

    Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) is a large scale project which aims to provide evidence-based research into the use and impact of OER from a number of countries in Sout...

  • Working with individual institutions to assess the efficacy and impact of OER

    OpenStax College produce peer reviewed open textbooks in a range of subjects. With 22 open textbooks published to date since their inception in June 2012, in April 2016 OpenStax reported that almost a...

  • Localising OER to meet the needs of educators in India

    TESS-India aims to use OER both in training new teachers, to meet a shortfall estimated at 1.33 million, and in improving the practice of existing teachers, reducing pressure on teacher education inst...

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Lighthouse Comments

Ujjal Saikia  a year ago
For Completing a course assignment make me this entry.
Jan Neumann
The OER Hub is the role model for institutionalized research on openness per se. We should have oerhubs in every country!
Dr. Sunil Anna Gorde a year ago
This institutions working for quality research on OER.
Dr. Santosh Khirade a year ago
The Open Education Research Hub (OER Hub) working to raise the quality and profile of research in this field. OER Hub working for the Qulity Research on OER. It is very helping the research community. As well as academic publications and presentations, there is also openly licensed data from our research that you can use. Research is very Importent in day to day taching and Learing Process. In the feild of Higer Education research activites is more important for developing the feild of Educaton.

Comments

SIVAKUMAR P a year ago
Provides good content with great scope for researchers. I am interested in Teacher-learner oriented OER
Indumathi N a year ago
OER HUB IS PROVIDING GREATER OPPORTUNITY FOR RESEARCHERS. IT ENSURES QUALITY RESEARCH. IT SHOULD BE IMPLEMENTED EVERYWHERE TO ENHANCE QUALITY RESEARCH
Ramananda Ningthoujam a year ago
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OER Hub
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Research institute

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Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University (UK)
MK7 7SS, Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes
United Kingdom