This is a list of OER Hub publications, and conference presentations.
Reports
- Jhangiani, R., Pitt, R., Hendricks, C., Key, J., & Lalonde, C. (2016). Exploring the Use of Open Educational Resources at British Columbia Post-Secondary Institutions. BC Open Textbook Fellows / OER Hub. https://open.bccampus.ca/2016/01/18/new-study-exploring-faculty-use-of-oer-at-bc-institutions/
- de los Arcos, B., Farrow, R., Perryman, L.-A., McAndrew, P. Pitt, R. & Weller, M. (2015). OER Data Report 2013-2015. OER Research Hub. http://oerhub.net/reports/
- de los Arcos, B., Farrow, R., Perryman, L.-A., Pitt, R. & Weller, M. (2014). OER Evidence Report 2013-2014. OER Research Hub. http://oerhub.net/reports/
Research Articles
- Farrow, R. (2016). A Framework for the Ethics of Open Education. Open Praxis, 8(2). http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpr axis.8.2.291
- Perryman, L.-A. & de los Arcos, B. (2016). Women’s empowerment through openness: OER, OEP and the Sustainable Development Goals. Open Praxis, 8(2), 163-180. http://oro.open.ac.uk/46371/
- de los Arcos, B., Farrow, R., Pitt, R., Weller, M. & McAndrew, P. (2016). Personalising learning through adaptation: Evidence from a global survey of K-12 teachers’ perceptions of their use of open educational resources. Journal of Online Learning Research, 2(1), 23-40. Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). http://www.editlib.org/p/151664
- Farrow, R., de los Arcos, B., Pitt, R., & Weller, M. (2015). Who are the Open Learners? A Comparative Study Profiling non-Formal Users of Open Educational Resources. European Journal of Open, Distance and E-learning, 18(2). http://oro.open.ac.uk/4496
- Farrow, R. (2015). Open education and critical pedagogy. Learning, Media and Technology. DOI:10.1080/17439884.2016.1113991
- Weller, M., de los Arcos, B., Farrow, R., Pitt, B., & McAndrew, P. (2015). The Impact of OER on Teaching and Learning Practice. Open Praxis, 7(4), 351-361. doi:10.5944/openpraxis.7.4.227
- Pitt, R. Mainstreaming Open Textbooks: Educator Perspectives on the Impact of OpenStax College open textbooks (2015) The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning (IRRODL) 16 (4): 133-155 http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/2381
- Farrow, R., Pitt, R., de los Arcos, B., Perryman, L.-A., Weller, M. and McAndrew, P. (2015). Impact of OER use on teaching and learning: Data from OER Research Hub (2013–2014). British Journal of Educational Technology, 46 (5): 972–976. doi: 10.1111/bjet.12310
- Buckler, A., Perryman, L.-A., Seal, T. and Musafir, S. (2014). The role of OER localisation in building a knowledge partnership for development: insights from the TESSA and TESS-India teacher education projects. Open Praxis, 6(3) pp. 221–233. http://oro.open.ac.uk/40814/
- Perryman, L.-A., Buckler, A. and Seal, T. (2014). Learning from TESS-India’s approach to OER localisation across multiple Indian states. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2(7). http://bit.ly/2hViaAy
- Pitt, Rebecca; Ebrahimi, Nassim; McAndrew, Patrick and Coughlan, Tim (2013). Assessing OER impact across organisations and learners: experiences from the Bridge to Success project. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, OER 2013 Special Issue. http://bit.ly/2hViaAy
- Weller, M. (2013). Editorial: The Battle for Open. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, OER 2013 Special Issue. http://jime.open.ac.uk/jime/article/view/2013-15
- Deimann, M. & Farrow, R. (2013). Rethinking OER and their use: Open Education as Bildung. International Review of Online and Distance Learning 14(3). http://bit.ly/2hEHn2O
- Weller, Martin (2012). The openness-creativity cycle in education: a perspective. Journal of Interactive Media in Education. http://jime.open.ac.uk/articles/10.5334/2012-02/
- McAndrew, P., Farrow, R., Law, P., & Elliot-Cirigottis, G. (2012). “Learning the Lessons of Openness” in Comas-Quinn, A., Fitzgerald, A., & Fairweather, I. (eds.) Journal of Interactive Media in Education. Special Issue Cambridge OER 2012. http://jime.open.ac.uk/article/download/2012-10/450
- Scanlon, Eileen; McAndrew, Patrick and O’Shea, Tim (2015). Designing for Educational Technology to Enhance the Experience of Learners in Distance Education: How Open Educational Resources, Learning Design and Moocs Are Influencing Learning. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2015(1), article no. 6. http://oro.open.ac.uk/44374/
- McAndrew, Patrick and Scanlon, Eileen (2013). Open learning at a distance:lessons for struggling MOOCs. Science, 342 pp. 1450–1451. http://oro.open.ac.uk/39736/
Books and Book Contributions
- Farrow, R. (2016). Constellations of Open. In Deimann, M. & Peters, M. (eds.) The Philosophy of Open Learning. New York: Peter Lang Publishing
- Weller, M., Farrow, R., Pitt, R., de los Arcos, B. & McAndrew, P. (2016). ‘Identifying Categories of OER Users’. In Bliss, T. J. & Blessinger, P. (eds.) Open Education: International Perspectives in Higher Education. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers.
- Weller, M., Pitt, R., de los Arcos, B., Farrow, R. (2016). Impact of OER on teaching and learning practices. In Jhangiani, R., & Biswas-Deiner, R. (eds.) Open: The philosophy and practices that are revolutionizing psychological science and education. Ubiquity Press
- Weller, M. 2014. Battle for Open: How openness won and why it doesn’t feel like victory. London: Ubiquity Press. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bam
- McAndrew, P. & Farrow, R. (2013). “Open Education Research: From the Practical to the Theoretical” in McGreal, R., Kinuthia, W. and Marshall, S. (eds) Open Educational Resources: Innovation, Research and Practice. Commonwealth of Learning and Athabasca University, Vancouver. pp.65-78. https://oerknowledgecloud.org/content/open-education-research-practical-theoretical
- De Liddo, A., Buckingham Shum, S., McAndrew, P. & Farrow, R. (2012). ‘The Open Education Evidence Hub: A Collective Intelligence Tool for Evidence Based Policy’. In Okada, A. (ed.) Open Educational Resources and Social Networks: Co-Learning and Professional Development. London: Scholio Educational Research & Publishing. http://oer.kmi.open.ac.uk/?page_id=1201
Conference Proceedings
- de los Arcos, B. (2014). Flipping with OER: K12 teachers’ views of the impact of open practices on students. In Proceedings of OpenCourseWare Consortium Global 2014: Open Education for a Multicultural World. Ljubljana, Slovenia. http://oro.open.ac.uk/40093/
- Farrow, R. (2014). OER Impact: Collaboration, Evidence, Synthesis. In Proceedings of OpenCourseWare Consortium Global 2014: Open Education for a Multicultural World. Ljubljana, Slovenia. http://bit.ly/2fLqHnY
- Perryman, L.-A., Buckler, A. and Seal, T. (2014). The role of OER localisation in building a knowledge partnership fro development: Comparing the TESSA and TESS-India teacher education projects.In Proceedings of OpenCourseWare Consortium Global 2014: Open Education for a Multicultural World. Ljubljana, Slovenia. http://conference.ocwconsortium.org/2014/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/OCWC2014-TESS-India-Abstract.pdf
- Farrow, R. and Daly, U. (2014). OER Impact in Community Colleges. In Proceedings of OpenCourseWare Consortium Global 2014: Open Education for a Multicultural World. http://conference.oeconsortium.org/2014/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Paper_85.pdf
- Coughlan, Tim; Ebrahimi, Nassim; McAndrew, Patrick and Pitt, Rebecca (2013). Assessing OER impact across varied organisations and learners: experiences from the “Bridge to Success” initiative. In Proceedings of OER13: Creating a Virtuous Circle. Nottingham, UK. http://oro.open.ac.uk/37754/
- McAndrew, P. and Farrow, R. (2013). The Ecology of Sharing: Synthesizing OER Research. In Proceedings of OER13: Creating a Virtuous Circle. Nottingham, UK. http://oro.open.ac.uk/37755/
- Coughlan, T., Pitt, R., and McAndrew, P. (2013). Building open bridges: collaborative remixing and reuse of open educational resources across organisations. In: 2013 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems ‘changing perspectives’ (CHI 2013), 29 April – 02 May 2013, Paris, France, pp. 991–1000. http://oro.open.ac.uk/36473/
- Law, P., Perryman, L.-A., and Law, A. (2013). Open educational resources for all? Comparing user motivations and characteristics across The Open University’s iTunes U channel and OpenLearn platform. In: Open and Flexible Higher Education Conference 2013, 23-25 October 2013, Paris, European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU), pp. 204–219. http://oro.open.ac.uk/39102/
- Perryman, L.-A., Law, P. and Law, A. (2013). Developing sustainable business models for institutions’ provision of open educational resources: Learning from OpenLearn users’ motivations and experiences. In: Open and Flexible Higher Education Conference 2013, 23-25 October 2013, Paris, European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU), pp. 270–286. http://oro.open.ac.uk/39101/
- Perryman, L.-A. (2013). Addressing a national crisis in learning: open educational resources, teacher-education in India and the role of online communities of practice. In: Seventh Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF7), 2-6 Dec 2013, Abuja, Nigeria. http://oro.open.ac.uk/39658/
- McAndrew, P., Farrow, R., Law, P., & Elliot-Cirigottis, G. (2012). Learning the Lessons of Openness. In: Proceedings of Cambridge 2012: Innovation and Impact – Openly Collaborating to Enhance Education. OCW Consortium and SCORE, Cambridge, UK, April 16–18 2012, Milton Keynes, The Open University, pp. 193-202. http://oro.open.ac.uk/33640/
- De Liddo, A., Buckingham-Shum, S., McAndrew, P., & Farrow, R. (2012). The Open Education Evidence Hub: A Collective Intelligence Tool for Evidence Based Policy. Proceedings of Cambridge 2012: Innovation and Impact – Openly Collaborating to Enhance Education. OCW Consortium and SCORE, Cambridge, UK, April 16–18 2012, Milton Keynes, The Open University, pp. 396-404. http://oro.open.ac.uk/33640/
Conference Presentations
- de los Arcos, B. and Pitt, R. (2016). ‘Awareness of OER and OEP in Scotland: Survey findings from the Open Educational Practices Scotland (OEPS) project’. OER16: Open Culture. Edinburgh, Scotland (April 2016)
- Pitt, R., Coughlan, T. and Farrow, R. (2016). ‘Reflecting back on the diverse innovations and impacts prompted by an OER project’. OER16: Open Culture. Edinburgh, Scotland (April 2016)
- Neumann, J. and Farrow, R. (2016). ‘The big picture: OER in Europe powered by OER World Map’. OER16: Open Culture. Edinburgh, Scotland (April 2016)
- de los Arcos, B. & Eggleston, N. (2016). ‘Global OER Graduate Network: Raising the profile of OER research’. OER16: Open Culture. Edinburgh, Scotland (April 2016)
- Perryman, L.-A. & de los Arcos, B. (2016). ‘Meeting the needs of disabled students through OER and OEP: insights from the OERH dataset’. OER16: Open Culture. Edinburgh, Scotland (April 2016)
- Weller, M., de los Arcos, B., Pitt, R., & Farrow, R. (2016). “Identifying Categories of OER Users”. Open Education Global 2016: Convergence Through Collaboration. Krakow, Poland (April 2016)
- Farrow, R. (2016). ‘Framework for an Ethics of Open Education’. Open Education Global 2016: Convergence Through Collaboration. Krakow, Poland (April 2016)
- Perryman, L.-A. & de los Arcos, B. (2016). ‘Women’s Empowerment Through Openness: OER, OEP and the Sustainable Development Goals’. Open Education Global 2016: Convergence Through Collaboration. Krakow, Poland (April 2016)
- Neumann, J. and Farrow, R. (2016). ‘The Big Picture: OER in Europe powered by OER World Map’. Open Education Global 2016: Convergence Through Collaboration. Krakow, Poland (April 2016)
- Farrow, R. (2015). ‘Constellations of Open’. 3rd e-Learning and Distance Education Conference: Evolution, Challenges and Solutions. Lahore, Pakistan. (Mar 2016)
- Farrow, R. (2015). ‘Constellations of Open’. Open Education Symposium 2016. Utah Valley University, Utah, USA (Feb 2015)
- Farrow, R., de los Arcos, B. and Pitt, R. (2015). ‘Who are the Open Learners? Profiling informal users of OER repositories’. Open Education 2015. Vancouver, Canada (Nov 2015)
- de los Arcos, B., Pitt, R., and Farrow, R. (2015). ‘A Tale of Two Globes: Exploring the North/South divide in the use of OER.’ Open Education 2015. Vancouver, Canada (Nov 2015)
- Pitt, R., Farrow, R. and de los Arcos, B. (2015). ‘Exploring the Impact of Open Textbooks: Cost savings, Efficacy and Beyond’. Open Education 2015. Vancouver, Canada (Nov 2015)
- Jhangiani, R., Pitt, R., Hendricks, C., and Lalonde, C. Faculty attitudes towards OER and open textbooks in British Columbia and Beyond OpenEd 2015, Vancouver, British Columbia (19 November 2015)
- de los Arcos, B., Farrow, R. Pitt, R. and Weller, M. (2015). ‘Building Understanding of Open Education: An Overview of the Impact of OER on Teaching and Learning’. Computers and Learning Research Group (CALRG) Annual Conference 2015. The Open University, UK (Jun 2015)
- Pitt, R. Exploring the Impact of Open Textbooks around the World. BCcampus: Open Textbooks Summit, Vancouver, British Columbia (28 May 2015)
- Jhangiani, R., Pitt, R., Hendricks, C., and Lalonde, C. Faculty attitudes towards experiences with OER and Open Textbooks BCcampus: Open Textbooks Summit, Vancouver, British Columbia (28 May 2015)
- Pitt, R. OER Research Hub Overview. Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia (26 May 2015, invited speaker)
- Farrow, R and Neumann, J. (2015). User stories for the OER World Map. Open Education Global 2015. Banff, Alberta, Canada. (Apr 2015)dfq
- Bacsish, P., Ostrowski, F., Farrow, R., Amiel, T., and Wilton, D. (2015). Conceptual issues in mapping OER. Open Education Global 2015. Banff, Alberta, Canada. (Apr 2015)
- de los Arcos, B., Farrow, R. Pitt, R. and Weller, M. (2015). ‘OER Research Findings’. Open Education Global 2015. Banff, Alberta, Canada. (Apr 2015)
- Farrow, R. (2015). Openness and Ethics. OER15 – Mainstreaming Open Education. Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff. (Apr 2015)
- de los Arcos, B., Pitt, R., and Farrow, R. (2015). ‘From theory to practice: can openness improve the quality of OER research?’. OER15 – Mainstreaming Open Education. Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff. (Apr 2015)
- de los Arcos, B., Farrow, R. Pitt, R. and Weller, M. (2015). ‘Building Understanding of Open Education: An Overview of the Impact of OER on Teaching and Learning’. OER15 – Mainstreaming Open Education. Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff (Apr 2015)
- de los Arcos, B. (2015). ‘Non-English speakers’ use of OER: consumers or contributors? ’. OER15 – Mainstreaming Open Education. Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff (Apr 2015)
- Pitt, R. Distinguishing the dOERs: Faculty use of Open Educational Resources. BCcampus: Open Education Week webinar (10 March 2015; invited speaker)
- Pitt, R. OER Research on Open Textbook Adoption and Librarians. CCCOER webinar (10 December 2014; invited speaker)
- Farrow, R. (2014). Ethics, openness and the future of education. Open Education 2014. Washington DC, USA. (Nov 2014)
- Pitt, R., de los Arcos, B. and Farrow, R. (2014). ‘From theory to practice: can openness improve the quality of OER research?’ Open Education 2014. Washington DC, USA. (Nov 2014)
- Pitt, R., Zazani, E. & Graham, N. (2014). ‘Librarians Use and Perceptions of OER’. Open Education 2014. Washington DC, USA. (Nov 2014)
- de los Arcos, B., Farrow, R., Pitt, R., Perryman, L.-A. (2014). ‘’Eyes That Survey the World’: the latest data snapshot from OER Research Hub’. Open Education 2014. Washington DC, USA. (Nov 2014)
- Pitt, R. Open Access Week 2014: Open Textbook Research Overview The Open University (UK) (22 October 2014)
- Farrow, R. (2014). ‘Understanding Patterns in OER Impact: the role of mapping and curation’. Association for Learning Technology Annual Conference 2014. University of Warwick, UK. (Aug 2014)
- Pitt, R. Open Educational Resources and Efficacy, Nomura, London (9 July 2014)
- Farrow, R. & Pitt, R. (2014). ‘Open Education Research: Local and Global.’ Open Knowledge Festival 2014 (Unconference). Kulturbrauerei, Berlin, Germany. (Jul 2014)
- Farrow, R. (2014). ‘Open Research into Open Education: The Role of Mapping and Curation‘. Computers and Learning Research Group (CALRG) Conference 2014. Institute of Educational Technology, Milton Keynes, UK. (Jun 2014)
- Pitt, R., de los Arcos, B and Farrow, R. (2014). ‘From theory to practice: can openness improve the quality of OER research?’. Computers and Learning Research Group (CALRG) Conference 2014. Institute of Educational Technology, Milton Keynes, UK. (Jun 2014)
- Pitt, R. (co-presented with Beckett, M. & Williamson, D.) The Impact of Open Textbooks on Students and Educators OER Research Hub webinar (28 May 2014)
- Farrow, R. & Frank Bristow, S. (2014). ‘A Grand Tour of OER Policy’. OER14: Building Communities of Open Practice. Centre for Life, Newcastle, UK. (Apr 2104)
- Farrow, R. (2014). ‘Where is the evidence that OER makes a difference?’. OER14: Building Communities of Open Practice. Centre for Life, Newcastle, UK. (Apr 2014)
- Pitt, R., Zazani, E. & Graham, N. Spreading the Word! Librarians and Open Educational Resources OER14, Newcastle, UK (April 2014)
- Farrow, R. (2014). OER Impact: Collaboration, Evidence, Synthesis’. OCWC Global Conference 2014: Open Education for a Multicultural World. Grand Union Hotel, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- Farrow, R. & Daly, U. (2014). ‘OER Impact at Community Colleges’. eLearning 2014, Hilton Lake Buena Vista, Orlando, Florida, USA (Feb 2014)
- Farrow, R. (2013). ‘Open Educational Resources: Impact, Evidence and Narrative’. JISC RSC Yorkshire and Humber Online Conference 2013: MOOCs, Badges and Open Educational Resources (OER) [online conference].
- Farrow, R. (2013). ‘OER Impact: Towards an Evidence Base’. Open Education Conference 2013. Park City, Utah (Nov 2013)
- Pitt, R. (2013). From Chrysalis to Butterfly: Lifecycles of an OER Project, OpenEd 2013, Park City, Utah, USA (November 2013)
- Farrow, R. (2013). ‘OER Impact: Towards an Evidence Base’. Open Access Un/Conference. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, San José, California (Oct 2013)
- OER Research Hub. (2013). ‘What Makes Openness Work?’ Technology Coffee Morning. Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University (Jul 2013)
- Farrow, R. (2013). ‘Openness in Education: Technology, Pedagogy and Critique’. London Conference in Critical Thought 2013. Royal Holloway, University of London. (Jun 2013)
- Farrow, R. and McAndrew, O. (2013). ‘The Ecology of Sharing: Synthesizing OER Research’. OER 13: Evidence, Experience, Expectation. Nottingham Business School, University of Nottingham. (Mar 2013)
- Pitt, R. Coughlan, T. Ebrahimi, N & McAndrew, P. Assessing OER Impact across varied organisations and learners: experiences from the Bridge to Success initiative, OER13, The University of Nottingham, UK (March 2013)
- Pitt, R. Open Learning: Bridge to Success, at “Supporting Social Inclusion and Widening Participation with Open Educational Resources” event, (OU (London), February 2013)
- Deimann, M. & Farrow, R. (2012). ‘Bildung as a critical foundation for Open Education’. Open Education 2012: Beyond Content. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (Oct 2012)
- McAndrew, P. & Farrow, R. (2012). ‘Answering the Questions of Openness’. Open Education 2012: Beyond Content. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (Oct 2012)
- Farrow, R. & Deimann, M. (2012). ‘Open Education as Bildung’. Philosophy of Education Workshop: What’s the use of philosophy of education? Faculty of Education, Liverpool Hope University (Jun 2012)
- Deimann, M. & Farrow, R. (2012). ‘Rethinking OERs and their use: Open Education as Bildung’. Theorising Education 2012: The Future of Theory in Education: Traditions, Trends and Trajectories, University of Stirling (Jun 2012)
- De Liddo, A., Buckingham-Shum, S., McAndrew, P. & Farrow, R. (2012). ‘The Open Education Evidence Hub: A Collective Intelligence Tool for Evidence Based Policy’. Cambridge 2012: Innovation and Impact – Openly Collaborating to Enhance Education. Queens College, Cambridge, UK. (Apr 2012)
- McAndrew, P., Law, P., Eliott-Cirigottis, G. & Farrow, R. (2012). ‘Learning the Lessons of Openness’. Cambridge 2012: Innovation and Impact – Openly Collaborating to Enhance Education. Queens College, Cambridge, UK. (Apr 2012)