GO-GN member Chrissi Nerantzi has compiled a list of very useful resources to guide you through your PhD journey. Check them up here.
Two useful bibliographical resources for researchers in open education are the OER Knowledge Cloud (an archive of research articles, books and reports) and the research bibliography on OER in the Global South provided by the ROER4D project.
The Open Education Research Hub team wrote the Open Research course at P2PU’s School of Open. The facilitated version of the course is now archived but researchers may still be interested in reviewing the course activities to gain better insights into the role of openness in research. The course also exists in ebook form, available at http://oro.open.ac.uk/48035/.
We have also made available under a CC-BY license the OER Hub Researcher Pack, containing guidance on how to use the tools developed by the project to conduct research into the impact of open educational resources (OER) or open education.
The LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog shared this selection of essential guides for researchers and young academics.
If you’re considering open release of research data you might be interested in the OER Research Hub Ethics Manual and the Information Commissioner’s report on best practice for managing risk through anonymisation.
Other interesting links:
OER Research Hub Hypothesis Report
Hewlett Foundation White Paper on OER
Open Education Group publications
Online Courses
During the time that the GO-GN was hosted by the The Open Universiteit Nederland members of the network were asked about training areas that might be useful to them. The following list was researched to find free online courses appropriate for doctoral training.
Public speaking
Course title: Introduction to public speaking
Mode: Self paced
URL: https://www.class-central.com/mooc/889/coursera-introduction-to-public-speaking
Academic writing
Course title: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing in English for University Study
Mode: starts 19 January 2015
URL: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/english-for-study
Course title: Principles of Written English, Part 1
Mode: Self paced
URL: https://www.class-central.com/mooc/1333/edx-colwri2-1x-principles-of-written-english-part-1
Course title: Principles of Written English, Part 2
Mode: starts 15 February 2015
URL: https://www.edx.org/course/principles-written-english-part-2-uc-berkeleyx-colwri-2-2x#.VIrw2TGG-VM
Course title: Writing in the Sciences
Mode: resources available after registration
URL: https://class.stanford.edu/courses/Medicine/Sci-Write/Fall2014/about
Review: from Francisco Iniesto: I took last 2014 fall semester “Writing in the Sciences” I found it very interesting even it is focused in Medicine, quality of educational resources is very good.
Research methods
Course title: Empirical Research Methods
Mode: Self paced
URL: http://oli.cmu.edu/courses/future/empirical-research-methods/
Course title: Solid Science: Research Methods
Mode: starts 31 August 2015
URL: https://www.coursera.org/course/solidsciencemethods
The video lectures are already available (https://class.coursera.org/solidsciencemethods-001/lecture/preview)
This course is part of a so-called specialization track: Become a Social Scientist: Methods and Statistics. The courses in this track are on https://www.coursera.org/specialization/socialscience/25/courses
Statistics
Course title: Statistical Learning
Mode: starts 19 January 2015
URL: https://class.stanford.edu/courses/HumanitiesandScience/StatLearning/Winter2015/about
Course title: Statistics in Education for Mere Mortals
Mode: starts 9 February 2015
URL: https://www.canvas.net/courses/cn-1703
Charting in Excel
Course title: How to create a basic chart in Excel 2010
Mode: Self paced
Numerous Youtube videos on this topic: see e.g. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=excel+charts+and+graphs+2010 (for Excel 2010)
Miscellaneous
Course title: OpenKnowledge Changing the Global Course of Learning
Mode: resources available after registration
URL: https://class.stanford.edu/courses/Education/OpenKnowledge/Fall2014/
