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Researching the meaning of the OERu for HEIs in the UK
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What are the main obstacles or challenges that you have encountered in attempting to implement OER initiatives at your institution?
One of the questions in the TOUCANS survey was ‘What are the main obstacles or challenges that you have encountered in attempting to implement OER initiatives at your institution?’ In this post I share the answers given by respondents to this question. Getting staff to embed open practices as part of daily workflows. It’s more […]
The devil is in the detail
July 7, 2012
The curious thing for me about the TOUCANS research findings has been that, while a great many objections have been raised in relation to the OERu concept, respondents (in both the interviews and the survey) have been overwhelmingly positive in their responses to the broad questions asking them for their overall views on the topic. […]
What do you think are the key elements that an institution should have in place for successful participation in the OERu?
July 6, 2012
I am currently processing the detail of the data received from the TOUCANS/ OERu survey into attitudes and perceptions towards the OER university concept within UK higher education institutions. In this post, I would like to share the answers given by survey respondents to the question, “What do you think are the key elements that […]
“Fervent OERu supporters need to soak themselves in a bath of realism.”
June 8, 2012
Last Thursday I gave my “end-of-SCORE-fellowship” presentation to a group of other SCORE fellows at the Open University. It was a bit premature, because I had only just received all the survey data (42 respondentsfrom UK HEIs – thank you to everyone who participated) and was still in the process of gathering data via the […]
How compatible is your institution with the OERu concept? a 15-minute survey
May 22, 2012
One of the main aims of the TOUCANS project is to ascertain “the UK higher education view” on the OERu concept – which is basically the idea of institutions collaborating to offer assessment and accreditation services to informal learners who are studying from OERs, on a mass scale. One way of gathering data towards this […]
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TOUCANS Project Blog 
July 7, 2012
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