The Open Educational Resources Impact Map: researching impact through openness and collaboration
| Published | 5 August 2014 |
| Type of work | Blog post |
| Periodical | Volume 2015 |
| Publisher | LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog, The London School of Economics and Political Science |
ABSTRACT
Much sharing and use of open educational resources (OER) is relatively informal, difficult to observe, and part of a wider pattern of open activity. What the open education movement needs is a way to draw together disparate fragments of evidence into a coherent analytic framework. Rob Farrow provides background on a project devoted to consolidating efforts of OER practitioners by inviting the open community to contribute directly and submit impact narratives. Through the mapping of these contributions, the data can continue to grow iteratively and support the decisions made by educators, students, policymakers and advocates.| Keywords | academic communication · higher education · impact · OER Research Hub · open access movement · open licensing |
| Refereed | Does not apply |
| Rights | by/3.0 |
| URL | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/08/05/oer-impact-map-open-university/ |
| Access date | January 6, 2015 |
| Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
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