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Engaging with audiences early : the role of social media and networks in developing a communications strategy for a global research project
Get PDFDeveloping a Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) communications strategy involves understanding four goals for ROER4D communications: 1) visibility for the project 2) knowledge generation 3) networking 4) research capacity development. The presentation draws attention to the communication process as well as some factors influencing early audience engagement: inviting participation; tracking and analyzing social media responses; creating and maintaining relationships on and off-line. Key audiences are listed
Presentation : Open, ready and agile : developing a communications strategy for the ROER4D project
No full textThis presentation for the global conference (2015, Cape Town, SA) provides an overview of research into open educational resources (ROER4D). The presentation situates the research within the research communications process in terms of: assessing program readiness; situational analysis and targeted audience; methods and media; institutional framework and other steps. Four key purposes for ROER4D Communications are: 1) Visibility for the project 2) Knowledge generation 3) Networking 4) Research capacity development
Open, ready and agile : developing a communications strategy for the Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) in the global south
Get PDFAs part of Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) strategy, development of research communications becomes intrinsic to the research process itself and may contribute to answering key research questions. In ROER4D, all research outputs and data sets are made openly available under Creative Commons licences, encouraging sharing and re-use. Concepts of readiness, agility and openness are useful lenses enabling development, innovation and evaluation of research communications: readiness is being realistic to become prepared; agility is being prepared to learn through iteration, while openness in communication considers research communication as integral to broader research and engagement processes
Developing and planning a communications strategy for the ROER4D project
Get PDFThe presentation is a “how-to” for researchers, to illustrate, initiate, and develop a communications strategy for work in Research In Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D). One of the principles of ROER4D is to share the research process openly with both internal researchers in the ROER4D network and external OER researchers, to contribute to the field of ‘open research’, using Website, SlideShare, publications, social media, and webinars to the extent that other networks acknowledge and draw on these practices, and to discuss findings so that ROER4D becomes a “reference point” in the Open Educational Resources (OER) field
ROER4D First Workshop Evaluation
No full textThis report is an evaluation of the success of the ROER4D project's first workshop, held between 9-13 December 2013 in Cape Town. The workshop focused on research skills capacity development, and an evaluation via questionnaire was conducted after the conclusion of workshop activity to determine the success of the workshop. This report contains a summary of the evaluation activity and suggestions on how to improve capacity development in the future
OER in and as MOOCs : impact on educators' practices in African-developed higher education courses
Get PDFThe University of Cape Town research examines what the ‘open’ in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) means - as a contested space, and to identify constraints as they emerge during design and implementation of courses. 12 MOOCS have been created over a three year period. The working hypothesis is that Open Educational Resources (OER) adoption in a MOOC format contributes to the spread of open educational practices as well as a transformation in educators’ teaching and learning practices. This presentation delivers preliminary findings which suggest a marked change in educators’ attitude to open courses and teaching online
Reflections on developing an evaluation and communications strategy for the ROER4D project
Get PDFThe presentation outlines key evaluation areas of research into open educational resources for development (ROER4D) in terms of process. It provides a summary of the evaluation plan, which works towards building capacity of researchers along with OER development and dissemination. The utilization-focused evaluation (UFE) works as a decision-making framework within which numerous evaluation approaches can co-exist
Issues for universities using private companies for online education
Get PDFThis briefing is aimed at universities who are thinking of using - or already using - private companies to develop or expand their online programmes or courses. It raises the issues to be thought about and the implications of decisions made, and it considers the roles and relationships of the companies with the universities
Researching OER adoption and impact in the Global South : an overview of the Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project
Get PDFThis one page graphic delineates the objectives, extent and size of the ROER4D project; the definition and premise of Open Educational Resources (OER); ROER4D research practices and the why of Open Research; ROER4D basic bibliographical resources; and operationalization of open research through sharing where ROER4D research outputs (documents and data) are published as legally shareable resources under Creative Commons licences. Some initial findings are also provided
Understanding "Openness" in research on open educational resources : deliberations of the ROER4D project
Get PDFA broad overview of Research on Open Educational for Development (ROER4D) is presented with Open Educational Resources (OER) promoted as a response to some challenges facing education in developing countries; a discussion of degrees of openness in terms of Open Access, copyright and licensing; and analysis of examples of OER from Africa. The processes of sharing research are explained
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