Open University
For The Global OER Graduate Network
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Amount$591,000
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Program
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Date Awarded10/8/2019
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
The Open Universitys Global OER Graduate Network is an international network that uses seminars and online community building to connect researchers and Ph.D. students who are studying issues related to open educational resources. The network will continue to enhance the diversity of its membership, synthesize important research findings, and sustain a community of practice. A robust research infrastructure and increased use of high-impact studies will support effective implementation of open educational resources and practices.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.open.ac.uk
Address
Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom
Grants to this Grantee
for the Open University OER Research Hub
The OER Research Hub at the Open University in the United Kingdom aims to establish and raise the profile of an evidence base for OER. The hub will refine research directions for the OER field, improve the tools for building research capacity, and develop approaches for supporting the research needs of other organizations and funders working in the OER field. This work will coalesce the research base regarding OER and improve research capacity.
for the Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN)
The Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN) at the Open University (UK) is a global network that connects PhD researchers and their supervisors studying issues related to OER through week-long seminars and online community building. The GO-GN will conduct a week-long seminar in Banff, Canada in connection with the 2015 Global Open Education Conference and will support research on the impact of international organizations on national OER policies. This work will advance the Education Programs goal of increasing understanding of the effect of OER in education through research.
for the Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa project
Launched in 2005, the Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa (TESSA) project has since grown to become an internationally-recognized exemplar of OER for teacher training in SSA. From 2005 - 2009 the project primarily focused on developing country-specific versions of the TESSA materials, while activities from 2009-2012 focused on program implementation, the production of supplementary materials, and research to understand how teacher educators were using TESSA. To understand the project's progress to date against its original goals and determine ways in which the program could be improved, a formative evaluation of the project was conducted from May to September 2012. This proposal follows up on the recommendations made in the evaluation, which primarily addressed sustainable approaches to pedagogic change within teacher training institutions using TESSA (in other words, ways in which TESSA could be more deeply embedded within training institutions). Three strands of work will focus on documenting, extending, and scaling TESSA across multiple contexts. The first strand includes documentation of the policy and organizational structures of two organizations where TESSA is used extensively (one distance and one campus university). The second will explore replication of TESSA use from one training institution to three other teacher colleges in Ghana (which use a face-to-face model of instruction), and the third will attempt to scale TESSA use by encouraging National Certificate of Education Supervisor use of TESSA Nigeria on a mobile platform. The aim of this project is to expand and embed the use of TESSA OER in partner institutions, leading to sustainable pedagogic change.