Opening presentation of Josep M. Duart, EDEN Vice-president for Research, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain, for the Open Education Week's fifth day webinar on "Researching openness – evidence-based approach " - 8 March 2019 Recordings of the discussion are available: https://eden-online.adobeconnect.com/ptwsj0d95afy/

2. Researching openness.
Evidence-based approach
Paul Prinsloo
University of South
Africa
Mairéad Nic Giolla
Mhichil
Dublin City University
NIDL
Andrea Saltelli
University of Bergen
Open Evidence
Research
Antoni Pérez-Navarro
Universitat Oberta de
Catalunya (UOC)
E-Learn Center

3. Paul Prinsloo
• Research Professor in Open and Distance Learning at
the University of South Africa (Unisa), established
1873, 350,000 students
• My current and primary research focus is on the
collection, analysis and use of student data as evidence,
in order to improve the effectiveness of teaching and
learning in open and distributed environments. My
secondary focus is on open and distributed learning –
mapping ecologies of open

4. Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl
@1mngm
mairead.nicgiollamhichil@dcu.ie
• Head of the Ideas Lab@National Institute of Digital Learning
in Dublin City University in Ireland
• MOOC based research in a series of Irish language and
culture MOOCs
• Sentiment Analysis of emotions
• Motivation and link to identify -
• Learning Design
• Unbundling and rebundling of higher education

5. Andrea Saltelli
Adjunct professor at the Centre for the Study of the
Sciences and the Humanities (SVT) - University of Bergen
(UIB), and is visiting fellow at Open Evidence Research,
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona
Most recent papers have tackled sensitivity analysis and auditing, the
ecological footprint, the future of statistics, the rational of evidence-based
policy, the crisis of science and the post-truth discussion. He give courses
in sensitivity analysis, sensitivity auditing and ethics of quantification, and
together with colleagues, develop a syllabus on Numbers for Policy (see
www.andreasaltelli.eu).

6. Antoni Pérez-Navarro
• Deputy director of research at eLearn Center Computer
Sciences, Multimedia and Telecommunication Dpt. Universitat
Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
• Experienced Lecturer with a demonstrated history of working in
the e-learning industry. Is teacher of Physics and Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) and skilled in TIC, Moodle and
Computer Science. Strong education professional with a Doctor
focused in Physics from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. His
research interests are focused on indoor positioning and
applications of GIS, mainly in e-health.

7. Presentation
• What are the today most relevant research challenges
on Open Education?
• Can Evidence-Based Research approach offer a new
and better perspective to the Open Education research?
• What kind of Evidence-Based research methodologies
are more appropriated to research on Open Education?