oer impact: collaboration, evidence, synthesis
DESCRIPTION
The OER Research Hub (OERRH) project works collaboratively with open education initiatives around the world to examine the impact of open educational resources. In this paper I will outline methods for organizing and disseminating open research into OER. In particular, I focus on the value of curation when combined with strategies for the visual presentation of evidence (especially mapping). The discussion is framed by a presentation of the OER Impact Map, an asset of OERRH.TRANSCRIPT
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OER Impact: Collaboration, Evidence, Synthesis
Dr. Rob FarrowThe Open University
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StructureOER Research Hub Collaborative Research Evidence ModelSynthesis: Mapping and CurationOER Impact Map
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please tweet to #oermap
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• Research project at The Open University (UK)
• Funded by William & Flora Hewlett Foundation for two years
• Research team led by two professors
• Tasked with building the most comprehensive picture of OER impact
• Organised by eleven research hypotheses
• Collaboration model works across different educational sectors
• Global reach but with a USA focus
OER Research Hub
oerresearchhub.org#oerrhub
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Rationale
• Consolidatory phase for OER movement after years of investment and piloting
• The need for an evidence base: advocacy, strategy, policymaking
• Lack of robust evidence for OER impact
• The evidence ‘problem’ in OER impact research
• Isolated ‘pockets of innovation’
• No agreement over best methods for impact comparison
• Compare diverse experiences to assess the influence of ‘open’
• Mixed methods data from experimental + non-experimental research
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CollaborationDeveloping an ecology of sharing
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• Research instruments applied consistently across collaborations:surveys, interview questions, focus groups, etc.
• Supplemented by integration of secondary research
• ‘Agile’ research, sprinting
• Thematic and methodological cohesion provided by research hypotheses
Research Process
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InclusiveHolisticValidation of experiences at the ‘cutting edge’Open to diverse perspectives
Incommensurability?Granularity?Synthesis?
Practical Advantages / Methodological Disadvantages
How will comparison of experiences be made rigorous?
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HypothesesKey claims about open education
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Keyword Research Hypothesis
Performance OER improve student performance/satisfaction
Openness People use OER differently from other online materials
Access OER widen participation in education
Retention OER can help at-risk learners to finish their studies
Reflection OER use leads educators to reflect on their practice
Finance OER adoption brings financial benefits for students/institutions
Indicators Informal learners use a variety of indicators when selecting OER
Support Informal learners develop their own forms of study support
Transition OER support informal learners in moving to formal study
Policy OER use encourages institutions to change their policies
Assessment Informal assessments motivate learners using OER
‘Evidence’ is only evidence in relation to a claim or hypothesis: the project hypotheses form the core of the metadata model.
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Evidence ModelDesign for information architecture
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Key Questions for Evidence Model
What evidence exists to support key claims about OER?
How do patterns of OER impact differ across countries?
How do patterns of OER impact differ according to sector?
How can the veracity of evidence be checked?
How can diverse evidence forms be meaningfully collected together?
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• TextTitle
• Text / HTML - Supports embedding of multimediaCopy
• Association of evidence with hypothesisHypothesis
• Evidence is either +ve/-ve in relation to a hypothesis Polarity
• GeolocationLocation
• School (K12) / College / Higher Education / InformalSector
• Academic citation or Hyperlink / URLCitation
Evidence: Information Architecture
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Support embedding
Evidence Records
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• Popular OS platform
• Easy to customize• Over 27,000
existing plugins
Wordpress
• CSV importer• Location plugin• JSON
Customization• Project code
available on GitHub• Easy to link, share
and engage
Openness
Technical Development
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Synthesis
Synthesis Methods• Isolating data by hypothesis, sector, country, or any combination• Collaborative curation of research data• Data visualization, reporting• Editorial quality control exercised centrally
Validation• Iteration through current and future patterns of evidence• Open citation trails allow public auditing of evidence• Community voting
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SynthesisMapping and curation
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OER Impact Mapoermap.org
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OER Impact Map: Mapsoermap.org
• Country Summary Map - evidence nodes organized by country
• OER Project Map - OER initiatives and projects around the world
• OER Evidence Map - all impact evidence is categorized according to the OER Research Hub hypotheses
• OER Policy Map is the single largest curated collection of OER policies
• OER Impact Map aggregates the other maps
• Tweetmaps show a geographical summary of tweets for a particular Twitter hashtag. E.g. #oermap for outreach; #oerrhub for tracking project activity.
• Maps by others
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Global Impact Summary
Select country to zoom
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Flowmap changes according to country selected…
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Impact Summary (USA)
Node colour = sector
Node border = polarity
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Positive Evidence
Negative Evidence
Uncategorized Evidence
OER Evidence Map
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OER Policy MapL
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Local/Institutional policies
Regional policies
National policies
International policies
CC Open Policy NetworkPOERUPSPARC
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OER ProjectsOER Project Map
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OER Impact Map
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OER Impact Map
Combines other maps
Supports filtering
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Hypothesis Reporting
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Hypothesis Reporting
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Summary
• A collaborative approach to OER research is recommended
• OER Impact Map is a tool designed for the needs of the open community
• Open methods for researching openness: openly licensed instruments; remix and reuse data; working openly; sharing
• Takeaway message: the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
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Next Steps
• Adding qualitative data analysis to evidence base
• Increasing the evidence base through desk research
• Plan for final phase of map development
• Case studies
• New collaborations?
• New hypotheses?
• School of Open course on open research; Open Data; CC-BY research tools
• Survey data ‘exploration tool’
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Survey Data Explorer (prototype)
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Survey Data Explorer (prototype)
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Survey Data Explorer (prototype)
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We want to put you on the map!
So let us know about OER activity and impact in your institution
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Join us in building understanding of open education
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