Category Archives: oer

Reading: Open Education

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Rob Farrow

I’ve been meaning to spend a bit of time trying to better understand the open education movement of the 1970s and how it relates to contemporary developments in academia.  A useful summary of some key texts is over at infed.org … Continue reading →

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OER13: Report & Slides

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Rob Farrow

I’ve spent the last couple of days here in Nottingham at OER13, where I presented yesterday on the OERRH project and about some of the issues surrounding research synthesis.  Here are my slides: The Ecology of Sharing: Synthesizing OER Research … Continue reading →

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What is Open Access?

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Rob Farrow

I just had to share this video from PhD Comics.  A really neat introduction to the issues surrounding access to scientific literature…

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OERHub: Looking Forward

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Rob Farrow

One of the things that we need to do as the OER Hub project progresses is keep track of the various research and dissemination activities that we are involved with over the two year period.  I have a couple of … Continue reading →

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My #opened12 slides

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Rob Farrow

Here are my slides for today’s presentation.  You can listen to the live audio at http://openedconference.org/2012/program/day-2/day2-1330-c485/.

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Recording: Cambridge 2012

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Rob Farrow

More media now online… you can watch the presentation that myself and Patrick McAndrew gave at Cambridge 2012: Innovation and Impact – Openly Collaborating to Enhance Education back in April at http://presentations.ocwconsortium.org/uk2012_329_learning_lessons_of_openness/.

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OER Hub Visualisations

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Rob Farrow

Just a first pass at creating infographic-style slides for a forthcoming report.  There were created with easel.ly using data from the OLnet OER Evidence Hub.   One is still missing at the moment… I’m interested in any feedback!

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Vancouver bound?

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Rob Farrow

Two papers (I think) accepted for Open Education 2012! Which is welcome news… full schedule isn’t up yet but it looks like being on day 3.

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Open Education as Bildung

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Rob Farrow

Here are my slides for tomorrow’s presentation at  the What’s the use of philosophy of education? workshop at Liverpool Hope University. View more presentations from Robert Farrow.

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OLnet Evidence Hub: Key Challenges

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Rob Farrow
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