6,000 pounds

Vanessa and I chatted and would love your feedback. We also have some  questions about what the fellowship funds might cover. These are the  research questions we are interested in for P2PU and School of Open:

• How does mentorship occur through OER or other tools used in the course? How do feedback interactions occur?
• How do people get over fear of learning open and practicing open?
• How and in what way is open (open tools, resources, practices) useful to people?
• How do people evaluate new open content, tools, and services?
• (Specific to School of Open) How does recruitment of an open  community of volunteers work? Is there something specific about the  subject of "open"?

The first four seem to fall under your larger research question,  "How does OER/openness change peoples attitudes and practices when it  comes to sharing?" So I feel like there would be a good fit for a  fellowship. Regarding ideas of what we envision the actual $ being spent  on:

• Vanessa or I (or both of us) fly to UK at end of course so we can work together on a:
  • Report - series of recommendations on our findings (would include interviews with course facilitators, etc.)
  • Dedicate some time to have course organizers implement findings into next iteration of courses
• Fly  in a few course facilitators to work on research and improve the next  iteration of courses based on research (don't know if there is enough  money for that or if this is something that fellowship covers)
• Send Vanessa to a relevant conference or other event that is about  OER research after we complete report remotely in our respective  countries?

• fellowship - talk to vanessa
  • External/OER landscape
  • Ideas
    • Course facilitators--travel to researcher / perceived impression of engagement, impact of OER, use that information to improve iteration of the next course---$$ goes to improving the course itself (which is a badass idea)
    • How mentorship happens through OER tools - how do feedback interactions occur (1)
    • How do people evaluate new open tools - both content and open services
    • Recruitment (SOO-specific) - how does that work? is there something about open? how to maintain this
    • How do people get over fear of learning open and doing open (1)
    • How and in what way is open (open tools, resources, practices) useful to people? (1)
    • Report - series of recommendations on our findings
    • Dedicate some time to have them implement into courses
• OER research hub questions
  • (1) How does OER/openness change peoples attitudes and practices when it comes to sharing?
  • (2)  How informal assessment mechanisms (badges) lead to student improvement  and/or improved learning (Leigh-Anne can explain this better)
• feedback on survey
  • go over questions - by thur/fri
    • too long
    • interested in their priorities, what must they know and how can we pare it back
    • desc of what survey is for
    • part of TOS that surveys are ok - opt-in, clarify who/what survey is, why would this research be useful/how is it relevant to p2pu's mission
  • tracking?- follow up with beck
    • dl of the database (quantitative data like visits, comments), data sharing policy [pending vmg's double check with Philipp]
• badges webinar - scheduling
  • Wed 4/17 at noon EST
  • google hangout - vanessa has slides but will do screenshare
  • second half of call can be create own badge -come with an idea to create a badge, come with images in mind
  • or if they've created a badge get feedback
  • RSVP - invite them when it starts
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