Tag Archives: research

Designing Evidence-based education technology: What the Research Says

Posted on June 4, 2015 by elenizazani

DESIGNING EVIDENCE-BASED EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY: WHEN DOES RESEARCH EVIDENCE COUNT? If you haven’t seen this event announcement, you still have 22 hours to sign up to attend for FREE! The London Knowledge Lab team has brought together an excellent programme of researchers … Continue reading →

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CoPILOT and OER Research Hub: A year of reflection and activities

Posted on August 19, 2014 by elenizazani

The summer time is the ideal period for all Academic Librarians to recharge their batteries in anticipation of the new term. My recharging time includes a lot of pausing to reflect on my annual professional praxis and set new personal … Continue reading →

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Librarians and Open Educational Resources: Survey Results

Posted on February 12, 2014 by elenizazani

Around late October 2013, I had posted an invitation to participate in a survey circulated by the OER Research Hub (OERRH) in collaboration with the Community of Practice for Information Literacy Online Teaching (CoPILOT). The OERRH researcher Beck Pitt started … Continue reading →

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Librarians and Open Educational Resources

Posted on October 31, 2013 by elenizazani

In one of my previous posts, I had mentioned the work that has been undertaken by the Open Educational Resources Research Hub  (for short, OER Research Hub or OERRH) and their ongoing research on “What the impact of OER on learning … Continue reading →

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Our #edcmooc paths to finding Information – Results

Posted on March 16, 2013 by elenizazani

Following one of the previous posts explaining the plethora of research questions born during the e-learning and digital Cultures MOOC (#edcmooc), I set up a survey to explore how my peers explored information beyond the material provided by the course … Continue reading →

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Widening Participation, Open Educational Resources and MOOCs: In Research and In Practice

Posted on March 5, 2013 by elenizazani

View as slideshow It’s main Aims and Objectives were: open.ac.uk To bring together widening participation practitioners and academic staff engaged with research into, and use of, Open Educational Resources. 00Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google Share on … Continue reading →

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Our #EdcMooc paths to Information and knowledge

Posted on February 16, 2013 by elenizazani

The last three weeks have been extremely rich and creative although I haven’t come back to the blog to record my thoughts.   One of the things that keeps coming back in my mind are the words of George Roberts … Continue reading →

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Use evidence-informed approaches and the outcomes from research, scholarship and CPD: Value 3

Posted on May 27, 2012 by elenizazani

One of the memorable research studies that influenced my teaching was the CIBER report. This study was commissioned by the British Library and JISC and one of its broader aims was: “to whether or not, as a result of the … Continue reading →

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Refl-ACTION

Posted on May 13, 2012 by elenizazani

I was reading last week Peter Scales’s chapter  “The reflective teacher”… it was an enlightening read for me although by-nature I am doing a lot of self-observation, trying to recognise patterns and ways of improvement and development. The last two … Continue reading →

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