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Discussions > Introducing the Open Education Evidence Hub

Simon Buckingham Shum
364 days ago

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This discussion topic is hosted by the Open Learning Network (OLnet) project team. The OU team is developing an Evidence Hub for Open Education to pool the movement's collective intelligence. In the week of June 20-24th, the team will host a discussion here on this new tool, to elicit your reactions to the current version.

The Hub is designed to complement the myriad existing forums, blogs and documents available about OER in an important respect: there is an overwhelming amount to read and keep up with, whether as a newcomer to OER or a seasoned veteran. The Hub seeks to distill key insights from the cloud of discussion and opinion, to create a thematically indexed, structured web of Challenges, Solutions and Evidence, and the organizations and projects who form the Open Education movement.

We invite you to watch the introductory screencast, and then share your views. A few screens from it below. [Movie also available to download: right-click and save this link to disk]

Some questions to kickstart it follow...

The OLnet Team

Simon Buckingham Shum
Patrick McAndrew
Anna De Liddo
Rob Farrow
Elpida Makriyannis
Michelle Bachler

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Simon Buckingham Shum
364 days ago

Do you agree that we need something like this?

Simon Buckingham Shum
364 days ago

What would motivate you to share insights from the work you know about?

If it looks like too much work, are there technical enhancements that would lower the barrier? Or is it the old problem that there's not enough reward/recognition for taking the time to share knowledge?

Simon Buckingham Shum
364 days ago

Apart from coming to the site, how would you prefer to receive the content?

Simon Buckingham Shum
364 days ago

Can you suggest sources which could be harvested automatically to populate the Evidence Hub with, for instance, relevant resources?

For instance, we are considering the parsing of blog feeds, tweets and listerv contributions, looking for distinctive tags which would enable automatic indexing within our classification scheme: eg olnet-challenge, olnet-evidence, olnet-policy, olnet-copyright...

Bhabesh Kumar Bhattacharya
362 days ago

Starting from Wikipedia, wikiversity, wihkibooks to OpenLearn,  MIT OCW, Stanford University and other well known resources, there is no dearth in learning material. What is needed is well thought programs, courses and taking up responsibility to run the courses in a systematic and interactive manner. I do not think you have dearth of talent, manpower or visionary teachers. You do not have to show evidence. What is needed is starting the work. Discussions would go on even after the OER University/UNU start functioning. Those discussions will definitely help. But please start the work now.

With regards,

Ragpickr

Jacky Hood
361 days ago

The OER Landscape on OER Commons provides the best structure that we have seen:
http://oercommons.org/community

This mindmap by Donna Gaudet is also helpful
http://www.mindomo.com/view?m=ae09f9a0d0d8432d9b60c953b463a44c

Regards,
Jacky Hood
Director, College Open Textbooks
Coordinator, Open Doors Group

Jacky Hood
361 days ago

We are convinced that Mozilla badges will become the clearning house for learning achievement. The cream will rise to the top and the mediocre will fade away.

Regards,
Jacky

Karen Cropper (OLnet)
336 days ago

I have had trouble getting on to the site so I wonder if others have and that is why there is not much comment here.  The password reminder is not working. Karen