T4E ’09 has announced a call for papers for their Bangalore workshop. The workshop will be held August 4-6, 2009 in Bangalore, India. The workshop is co-sponsored by the OCWC and will focus on original academic or industrial research into the effects technology of education. The theme areas are as follows: Growth and impact of […]

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 […]

Dear Colleagues, As required in Article X of the OCWC Bylaws, last Friday I posted 30-days notice of seven measures calling for amendments to those bylaws. The certified voting representative for each OCWC Member will have the opportunity to vote by proxy on these measures between April 16, 2009 and April 21, 2009. To download […]

Folksemantic is a project to create tools that increase the impact of open education resources by helping people find, filter, collaborate around, and remix them. As part of the project, work is underway to integrate the OCW Finder, OER Recommender, and Luvfoo. Plans are to improve these tools and add collaboration, personalized recommendation, widgets, and […]

You may have heard rumors that some of the US OCW producers have been working on a project to explore issues of Fair Use in Open Educational Resources.  Fair Use is the US version of a phenomena more generally known as Copyright Exceptions and Limitations, and most OCW projects have started out with the conservative […]