Open Learning Network

Shared challenges give a structure for the collective intelligence of the community and an opportunity to participate in OLnet research. OLnet has a portfolio of research activities within these strands to provide an infrastructure for the network.

Reports and Journal Papers

Alevizou, P., Conole, G. and Galley, R. (2010). Using Cloudworks to Support OER Activities. Higher Education Academy, York.  http://oro.open.ac.uk/26674/ 

The JISC Open Educational Resources Programme OER impact study is now available from http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/oer2/oerimpact.aspx.  The report investigates the impact of Open Educational Resources (OER) use on teaching and learning and draws on literature surveys, interviews, focus groups and workshop data to identify the pedagogic, attitudinal, logistical and strategic factors conducive to uptake and sustained use of OER.

 Cartography is an established visual representation that has long been used to map many different and contrasting worlds. The emergence and evolution of the Information Age has greatly impacted cartography’s traditional role, stressing the importance of good visual representation in our modern society. From Mercator to Peters via Beck it has been possible to represent or chart almost any object as well as real or fictitious places in time. 

When I started researching the world of OER closely about 18 months ago, I was bemused with the vast diversity of materials, resources and tools - but also with the wide ranging definitions and nuances of the movement.

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CREW (Collaborative Research Events on the Web) aims to improve access to research event content by capturing and publishing the scholarly communication that occurs at events like conferences and workshops. The project is developing tools to enable presentations and similar sessions to be recorded and annotated and enable powerful searches across distributed conference and related research data.