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		<title>UKOER Phase 3 Report</title>
		<link>http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2013/03/26/ukoer-phase-3-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lou McGill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are very pleased to release our final Synthesis &#38; Evaluation Report for phase 3 of the UKOER Programme. http://bit.ly/UKOER3SynthesisReport It has been hard work collating the excellent work of the phase 3 projects. Their work with so many diverse stakeholders has made it very challenging to synthesise key lessons &#8211; these included private bodies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OEP and bounded communities</title>
		<link>http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2013/03/11/oep-and-bounded-communities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lou McGill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Open Educational Practice: are communities helpful environments for changing professional practice? Allison Littlejohn, Lou McGill, Isobel Falconer, Helen Beetham For Open Education week at 11am (GMT) on Thursday at Lou McGill, David Kernohan and Allison Littlejohn will present some of the key findings from the UKOER programme &#8216;What you can learn from the UKOER experience&#8216;.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OER terminology</title>
		<link>http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2013/03/03/oer-terminology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 17:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lou McGill</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[open educational practice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[UKOER Phase 2]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UKOER programme has investigated many aspects of OER release and use over the last three years and detailed discussion of this is available in both the synthesis wiki and the OER infoKit. Watch out for some other posts about synthesis reports for the latest phase (phase3) and the HEFCE OER Review, which we&#8217;ve recently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HEFCE OER Review survey</title>
		<link>http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/07/03/hefce-oer-review-survey/</link>
		<comments>http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/07/03/hefce-oer-review-survey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 08:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lou McGill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[evaluation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OER Pilot Programme]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please fill in our survey If you have been involved in HEFCE funded UKOER and SCORE initiatives we would like your help. We plan to revisit some of the key lessons learnt across all strands of work, and gather input from as wide a range of stakeholders as possible. We are interested in reaching partners [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evaluation buddy meeting between REACTOR, Opening up a Future for Business and CORE-SET</title>
		<link>http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/04/23/evaluation-buddy-meeting-between-reactor-opening-up-a-future-for-business-and-core-set/</link>
		<comments>http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/04/23/evaluation-buddy-meeting-between-reactor-opening-up-a-future-for-business-and-core-set/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lou McGill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the approaches that we have adopted to support projects with their evaluation activities is to establish pair/teams of evaluation buddies. An evaluation buddy is basically another project who can: check that evaluation plans are sensible, credible, valid, do-able, relevant to programme aims provide peer review of content, interfaces, and other practical outputs from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evaluation toolkit</title>
		<link>http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/03/23/evaluation-toolkit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>isobelfalconer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are delighted to launch our new Evaluation Tookit which aims to benefit UKOER projects by providing a structured way to collate their findings and observations and can also be used in the reporting process. It also provided lots of information, advice, examples and videos, on evaluation, sources of evidence, and buddying. To help projects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open educational practices &#8211; what do we mean?</title>
		<link>http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/03/09/open-educational-practices-what-do-we-mean/</link>
		<comments>http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/03/09/open-educational-practices-what-do-we-mean/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Beetham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[open educational practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[openeducationwk]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To conclude our posts for open education week, I&#8217;ve been asked to introduce our new briefing paper on open educational practices. I think we&#8217;ve been talking about open practices since the pilot phase of UK OER &#8211; you can find it in some of our recommendations. When we set out, I for one had the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TEPL-SIG webinar</title>
		<link>http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/03/08/tepl-sig-webinar/</link>
		<comments>http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/03/08/tepl-sig-webinar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lou McGill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[open educational practice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 2st February 2012 isobel Falconer and I led a webinar for the TEPL-SIG (Technology Enhanced Professional Learning &#8211; Special Interest Group) on Open Practices which aimed to encourage participants to consider their own practices. We considered open educational practice (OEP) but also touched on issues around wider open practices with a focus on how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UKOER phase 2</title>
		<link>http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/03/07/ukoer-phase-2/</link>
		<comments>http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/03/07/ukoer-phase-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>isobelfalconer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Synthesis activities for the first two phases of the HE Academy/JISC UKOER Programme have included cultural and institutional issues across a number of sectors. The Evaluation and Synthesis team’s final report on phase 2 synthesises evidence and outputs under five main headings: Practice change Development and Release Issues Cultural Considerations Institutional Issues Impacts and Benefits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>open practices across sectors: briefing paper</title>
		<link>http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/03/06/open-practices-across-sectors-briefing-paper/</link>
		<comments>http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/03/06/open-practices-across-sectors-briefing-paper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lou McGill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The HE Academy/JISC UKOER Programme has encouraged cross-sector approaches to OER development, and is increasingly focussing on broader issues around open educational practices (OEP). Synthesis activities for the first two phases of activity have included cultural and institutional issues across a number of sectors. Activities to date include a UKOER phase 2 programme webinar on [...]]]></description>
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