OLnet fellowships were offered for researchers and practitioners who wished to contribute to the understanding of Open Educational Resource (OER) design and use worldwide. There were three rounds of open competition. Details of the application procedure for reference are still on the website, but no more Fellows are planned to be recruited at this stage in the project. Below is a list of the Fellows who were supported by OLnet. In addition there was one intake of OLnet-TESSA Fellows who are listed separately here: /content/about-olnet/olnet-tessa-fellows.
Cathy Casserly (USA) - collaborative discussion to develop an approach to mapping the field of OER
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Susan D'Antoni (Canada) - continuing on from Cathy Casserly in mapping the OER field
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Markus Deimann (Germany) - exploring and mapping educational benefits and theoretical approaches of OER
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Yannis Dimitriadis (Spain) - worked on use of patterns to encourage collaboration around OER
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José Luis Fernández Vindel (Spain) - Developing a diagrammatic language to build and share STEM teaching narratives
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Sandhya Gunness (Mauritius) - gathering information about OER and OEP to inform stakeholders in developing countries
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Helen Jelfs (Bristol, UK) - collection of resources in Cohere around Deeper Learning
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Jia Yimin (China) - large scale work in China around sharing courses
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Svetlana Knyazeva (Russia) - UNESCO study of OER in the CIS and other non-English speaking countries
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Kasia Kozinska (Poland) - CASE studentship at The Open University, UK, studying lifelong learners using OER
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Engin Kursun (Turkey) - research to inform decision-makers in Turkey by developing a policy framework for OER
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Scott Leslie (Canada) - prototyped a way to enable tracking of downloaded OER
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Sheila MacNeill (UK) - funded to attend the OCWC Global 2009 in Mexico and report back OLnet Team
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Marcelo Maina (Catalonia, Spain) - work on changed approaches to teaching using OER
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Murilo Matos Mendonça (Brazil) - work on influence, OER policy context in particular relation to Brazil
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Robyn Muldoon (Australia) - investigated assessment practices in higher education in Great Britain
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Pauline Ngimwa (Kenya) - Student at The Open University, UK, funded to visit Africa to review the OER Readiness in Africa.
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Jennifer Preece (USA) - social structures, worked with Elpida Makriyannis on study of social learning in OER
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Ágnes Sándor (France) - from Xerox, automated analysis of texts to pick out the messages around OER
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Chuck Severance (USA) - highly technical work to integrate standards exchange into Moodle
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George Siemens (Canada) - preparatory work for setting up Change: Education, Learning, and Technology MOOC
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Elsebeth Sorensen (Denmark) - creativity and innovation and how it relates to openness, special issue of journal
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David Wiley (USA) - consideration of validity of claims about the benefits of OER
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Sandra Wills (Australia) - integrating role play frameworks with D4L Programme, set up collaborative space in Cloudworks
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