Slides presented at the CALRG Annual Conference 2016 (http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2975). The Open Research Agenda is an international consultation exercise on research priorities in open education.

1. The Open Research Agenda
CALRG Annual Conference 2016
The Open University, UK

2. What is the Open Research Agenda?
Simple consultation and sharing exercise
Invitation to share thoughts about research priorities in open education
Results are discussed at conferences and workshops
That discussion then becomes part of the following presentation
Promoting an open research culture
The hope is that we will become better able to anticipate research needs
and funding opportunities as well as find potential collaborators

3. What is the Open Research Agenda?
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Community consultation exercise to better understand research priorities of
practitioners
Intended to identify patterns across countries and stakeholders
‘Flipping’ the conference format
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Stealing research ideas
Setting the agenda ourselves

4. consultation form
tinyurl.com/2016ORA

5. share thoughts
tinyurl.com/CALRGthoughts

6. As at 6 June 2016:
• 79 responses;
• Respondents from 22 countries across 5 continents:
Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Caribbean Netherlands, Chile,
Croatia, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Ireland, Macedonia, Malta,
Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal, South Africa, The Netherlands, United
Kingdom
• 2 conference seminars and one webinar with PhD students
Sample Overview

7. Action Lab @ OE Global, Krakow

8. Action Lab @ OE Global, Krakow

9. Workshop @ OER16, Edinburgh

10. Webinar with Global OER
Graduate Network

11. Sample

12. • One third of respondents described themselves as having only
one role;
• Half of all participants who responded with ‘Other’ told us their
role was wholly, or in part, as a librarian (3) or researcher (6);
• Half of all respondents described themselves as wholly or in part
an educator and/or an advocate (n=40);
• Three quarters of respondents who describe themselves in
whole or part as a policymaker also describe themselves as an
advocate of OER (n=9)

13. Expertise & Experience

14. What are the most important areas for open
education research over the next year?

15. OER impact research • measuring the influence of
the use of OER and OEP on
learning outcomes and
institutions
• more studies that do not
focus on open textbooks

16. Understanding adoption
and adaptation
• factors affecting
adoption of
individual OER
• qualitative
descriptions of
adaptation
• barriers to remix
and sharing (&
implications for
design)
• strategies for
implementation
by faculty

17. Open practices and pedagogies

18. Understanding adoption and adaptation
• factors affecting adoption of individual OER
• qualitative descriptions of adaptation
• barriers to remix and sharing (& implications for design)
• strategies for easing implementation by faculty

19. Quality issues
• peer review
• co-operation between higher
education institutes
• importance of quality for education

20. Ethical issues
• privacy, security and trust in online
learning
• ownership of (student) data and ‘safe
spaces’
• access & accessibility vs. remixable
resources

21. Technology and infrastructure
• ways of cataloguing and sharing OER
(e.g. shared database)
• linked open data for OE
• open digital badging
• geographical hubs for sharing OER
• using OER with VLEs
• beyond repositories
• a sustainable OER ecosystem
• interoperability

22. Openness
• social and political aspects of open
education
• quantifying the return on investment
from going open
• articulating the benefits of open
• building open communities and
supporting cross-community exchange
• tension between differing
interpretations of openness

23. What are the most pressing questions that need
to be answered?

24. Reflections on this approach
It’s quite hard to get people to do anything!
Envisaged breakdowns of role, level of expertise have been problematic
because of multiple roles and most identifying as expert
http://oerhub.net/collaboration-2/the-open-research-agenda-2/

25. share thoughts
tinyurl.com/CALRGthoughts

26. Reflections on this approach
It’s quite hard to get people to contribute
Envisaged breakdowns of role, level of expertise have been problematic
because of multiple roles and most identifying as expert
Formulating a research question does not evidently come naturally to non-
researchers
Some conflation of open education and e-learning more generally
Flipped conference format seems to work well but needs at least an hour for
meaningful contributions

27. What’s next?
Presentation at Open Education 2016 (Nov)
Publish report/paper with results
Identify possibilities for future work & collaboration

28. • Research into open education and strategies for building worldwide open
education research capacity
• Available for research & consultancy (short & long term)
• Current projects include:
oerhub.net

29. Image credits
"Life is Sharing" (CC-BY 2.0 Generic, Alan Levine)
“Open” Chuck Coker
https://www.flickr.com/photos/caveman_92223/4016133284/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Water_drop_impact_on_a_water-surface_-_(5).jpg
http://www.thebluediamondgallery.com/pictures/webinar.jpg
http://www.thebluediamondgallery.com/highlighted/a/advocacy.html CC-BY-SA 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
https://pixabay.com/static/uploads/photo/2012/11/07/10/14/quality-65060_960_720.jpg
“Remixing is Tasty” Gideon Burton https://www.flickr.com/photos/wakingtiger/3156791341 CC-BY-SA 2.0
Access key https://pixabay.com/static/uploads/photo/2014/04/02/10/16/key-303320_960_720.png
https://static.pexels.com/photos/4316/technology-computer-chips-gigabyte.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Openness.jpg/377px-Openness.jpg