Over the last few months, I’ve been drawn towards looking for ways people can create visualizations of data they own that can help them better understand their participation and habits on the Web. In my own research, I’m using a free web-based data visualization tool to understand how grantees of the TACT program are reporting their experience working with OER. The app I’m reference … Continue reading
Author Archives: Billy Meinke
Snapshot of the TAACCCT OER Community Pt.1
What’s happening inside the world’s largest OER project? What patterns exist among grantee projects in their use and attitudes of OER and proprietary content? This blog post summarizes initial results of a survey conducted in February and March of 2014, exploring knowledge areas and use patterns of Open Educational Resources (OER) and proprietary educational content…
OER Fellowship: Lenses on the Landscape of Open Education
Image by Billy Meinke Attribution 4.0 International / CC BY 4.0 ? During the final two weeks of February, I spent time with the research team at the OER Research Hub at The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. Supported by the Hewlett Foundation, the fellowship program brought in researchers working on OER-related projects whose work…
Video – “Science and the Web with Billy Meinke and Creative Commons”
Here’s a video of an interview I did with Julie Gould (The Mobile Collective) while at Mozfest in London back in October. I give a little background into the kinds of overlap between open education and open science that get me excited, and the work I’m doing at CC relating to them. Video is free, … Continue reading
Looking at Tools to Make the Web Work for Science – Mozfest 2013
Being able to return to my blog for the first time in a while is truly enjoyable, and I want to share about a content hack session that I was a part of yesterday. Here goes. Facilitating a session on the Science track at the Mozilla Festival in London, Michelle Brook and I worked with … Continue reading