OCWC Global 2010: Educational Policy and OCW
The 2010 Annual OCWC Global Meeting will take place in Hanoi, Vietnam. Vietnam OCW has presented itself as a unique government-run initiative and is having a great impact on education in Vietnam. The conference website will be ready in early December at http://conference.ocwconsortium.org. Discussions at the conference will be built around the theme of Educational Policy and OCW. Details on participation and presentation proposals will be provided on the conference website.

More Collaboration, bigger impact
We are all about openness and sharing, and what better way is there than to collaborate with more people? Mary Lou Forward, the Executive Director of OCWC met with Jay Yoon, the project lead for Creative Commons Korea on November 7th to discuss how each party can collaborate further and contribute to opening up education. University students were also invited to the discussion; it was a chance for them to learn about what they can do to share knowledge. OCWC is already involved with bringing Creative Commons into Vietnam, and this type of collaboration promises to open doors for more activities and impact at different levels.

OCWC November Webinar
The University of California, Irvine has implemented a “hub-and-spoke” system of OCW distribution. Search engine optimization is partially accomplished through a network of Web sites that link back to the original OCW course hosted at UC Irvine. In this webinar, Larry Cooperman, Director of UC Irvine’s OpenCourseWare project will describe this architecture and some surprising results in terms of visibility. The webinar will also briefly review UC Irvine’s model for OCW sustainability.

The webinar will be held on December 3rd at 10AM EST. If you are interested in participating, please email your name and affiliation to feeback@ocwconsortium.org, and you will be given instruction on how to participate. The webinar is open to anyone interested in OpenCourseWare.

Bits and Pieces
Membership status re-declaration
A couple weeks ago, the main contact for each institution received an email asking to re-declare the status of the membership. If you have not done so yet, please go to http://www.oeconsortium.org/categoryselect.
The 1st Asia Regional OCW Conference
From the 4th to 7th was the first Asia OCW conference. It was held at Korea University in Seoul, Korea. Speakers from Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, China, the United States and Korea spoke about current issues in OCW.
Translations of the newsletter
The November issue of the OCWC Newsletter was translated by members of the community who volunteered their valuable time: ZhuJia Cheng, Sunhee Hwang, Nguyen Que, Damian Martin Ferreira, and Ilya Gelfenbeyn. Thank you!