Research. OER Research Hub embraces a collaborative approach to research.
Our research collaborations are designed to enable joint work across three aspects of OER: identifying the issues and barriers of use of OER;joint work to find possible solutions, routes forward and assistance that might be needed; and,collation and collection of evidence against the research hypotheses. The eight collaborations are divided into four sectors with two collaborations in each sector of K-12, Community College, Higher Education, and informal. The research collaborations cover different sectors and issues, these include: the opening up of classroom based teaching to open content; the large-scale decision points implied by open textbooks for community colleges; the extension of technology beyond textbook through eBook and simulation; the challenge of teacher training in India; and the ways that OER can support less formal approaches to learning.
Udacity - Educating the 21st Century.