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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>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Beetham</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[open education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[openeducationwk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stakeholders]]></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>
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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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		<title>Grand Challenge in Open Learning</title>
		<link>http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/03/05/grand-challenge-in-open-learning/</link>
		<comments>http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/03/05/grand-challenge-in-open-learning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>allisonlittlejohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During Open Education Week, the JISC UKOER evaluation and synthesis team, Lou McGill, Isobel Falconer, Helen Beetham and I, are   collecting together ideas for a Grand Challenge in the areas of Open Education or Open Learning. This is following on from my work  with the EU-funded STELLAR Network for Excellence in TEL in developing ‘Grand Challenges’. A Grand Challenge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UKOER3 themes and activities</title>
		<link>http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/02/05/ukoer3-themes-and-activities/</link>
		<comments>http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/02/05/ukoer3-themes-and-activities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lou McGill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are currently going through UKOER3 project plans and drawing out key themes and areas of activity to map these against our synthesis and evaluation framework. We use the framework as an iterative tool to support both evaluation activities of projects and synthesis activities of our team. It highlights core areas of inquiry and identifies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UKOER3 startup</title>
		<link>http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2011/11/22/ukoer3-startup/</link>
		<comments>http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2011/11/22/ukoer3-startup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>allisonlittlejohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The evaluation and sythesis team took part in the UKOER3 startup event  in Birmingham on November 14th 2011. The event brought together the 18 projects in UKOER3 with the programme leaders and relevant support groups, including CETIS, JISC Legal, JorumOpen and  the E&#38;S  team. I (Allison Littlejohn)was representing the E&#38;S team, while the others from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After &#8216;that session&#8217; at Alt-C</title>
		<link>http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2011/09/09/after-that-session-at-alt-c/</link>
		<comments>http://oersynthesis.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2011/09/09/after-that-session-at-alt-c/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Beetham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well the cattle have been rounded up, the settlers have lit their home fires, and the preacher and the gadabout are safely departed to bother someone else. Apart from the comedy value of our session on open country (blogged by David Kernohan at http://followersoftheapocalyp.se/oer-the-cowboy-gospel-altc2011), what were the serious messages from the debate at Alt-C? David [...]]]></description>
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