I am proud to announce a group of exceptional students at Korea University. Some of you know that a couple undergraduate students have been pitching in to help with the OCW project at KU. Just a week ago, there was a meeting with 73 students who want to volunteer their time to increase awareness of OCW in Korea and to help with the OCW project at Korea University.

These students are divided into four groups: technology, translation, content generating, and PR. In 2008, I spoke very briefly about some students working on the Google Android Challenge. Now, this group of students will be working on technology that promotes OCW activities. We are on eduCommons at the moment, and the first mission of these students in the technology group is to build an eduCommons site for two universities and an organization in Korea. Their goal is to assist institutions to start OCW with less worries about the technology part.

The translation group will be working on some excellent OCW/OER materials from abroad so that more Koreans who don’t have the English ability to easily access these materials may enjoy quality educational material. This group was required to send in a sample translation piece, and believe me, these kids are just amazing.

Content generating group takes on the responsibility of making OCW contents. Yes, the faculty have the most advanced knowledge in the discipline, but that does not mean that our students are not capable of generating quality educational material.

More than anything, these are the kids who will be evangelists of OCW and opening up our education. They have very deep conviction as to why this must be done. Through transparency and sharing, we will be able to achieve what was not even conceivable even a decade ago. And I believe that these are the kids who will make it happen. Oh, the excitement!!