Ethics and Educational Technology (thoughts on #altc22 keynote)

This week the GO-GN team and myself attended the Association of Learning Technologists Annual Conference at the University of Manchester. I haven’t attended this conference for a number of years so it was good to return and see what kind of conversations people were having – especially after the turmoil and pressure of the last […]

Resisting the surveillance project: Siân Bayne keynote at #altc

This keynote presentation began by describing the ‘slow death’ of Yik Yak, an anonymous geosocial networking app launched in 2013. The software allowed people in close proximity to send and receive short, anonymous messages and write posts (Yaks). It was heavily marketed on university campuses. Yik Yak was totally anonymous, and was moderated by community […]

Research, Impact and the UK Parliament

This event took place in the Darwin Building at University College London on the 7th June 2017 and was organised by the Universities programme at UK Parliament Outreach and Engagement Service. These are my personal notes which may be of interest to any researchers who wish to improve the profile of their work among policymakers. […]

Critical issues in contemporary open education research #srhe

This presentation outlines some key considerations for researchers working in the fields of open education, OER and MOOC. Key lines of debate in the open education movement is described and critically assessed. A reflective overview of the award-winning OER Research Hub project will be used to frame several key considerations around the methodology and purpose […]

The Open Research Agenda #opened16

Today at Open Education 2016 I presented the provisional results of a research consultation exercise we have been doing at OER Hub over the last year. Several people asked for copies of the slides, which are available here and on the OER Hub SlideShare account. All feedback welcome. You can still take part in the project […]

The Open Research Agenda

Here are the slides I’ll be using today for my presentation at the CALRG Annual Conference. The Open Research Agenda is an international consultation exercise focused on identifying research priorities in open education. You can read more about the project here: The Open Research Agenda (2) The Open Research Agenda (1)

JiME Reviews Dec 2015

Here is the latest list of books available for review from JiME. If you’re interested in reviewing any of the following then get in touch with me through Twitter or via rob.farrow [at] open.ac.uk to let me know which volume you are interested in and some of your reviewer credentials. Reviews will be due at the […]

ROER4D Workshop, Banff 2015 – Day Two

For the morning of Day Two of the workshop the group split into working groups. I floated between the groups and tried to capture a sense of what was being discussed in each. Qualitative Data Analysis (led by Freda Wolfenden & David Porter) Freda presented some key things to consider: What does data analysis mean in […]

Open approaches to OER impact research

Slides for my presentation tomorrow at the 8th Grace EDEN workshop.

OCWC 2014 Recording Available

The video recording from my research presentation at OCWC 2014 is now available at http://videolectures.net/ocwc2014_farrow_oer_impact/. It’s not possible to embed here but they have a nice player on their site. This presentation gives an overview of the OER Research Hub project, some of the methodological and epistemological issues we encounter, and how we propose to […]