Much of this is a repeat of the news on the blog — but for the record here is the newsletter we sent out last week: Registration for OCWC Global To Open Soon ===================================================== We are working out a few last minute kinks in registration for OCWC Global, but wanted let you know the registration […]

Corona of the Sun During a Solar Eclipse (No known copyright)Â (from flickr commons: http://flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/2534500722/) A Note from the Fair Use on Open CourseWare team: All of us have been frustrated by problems with third-party rights for open courseware materials. We know that if we could clarify when fair use applies, we could vastly expand […]

From a press release we received last night: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching today named Catherine M. Casserly as Senior Partner effective April 2009. Casserly was director of the Open Educational Resources Initiative at The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, where she managed grants to harness the power of the World Wide […]

We haven’t really promoted this widely, but we have an OPML file that contains a list of RSS feeds of institutions that publish catalog entries of their OCW courses to RSS. Gibberish? Read no further. Code jockeys, on the other hand, follow me… Here’s the link to the OPML: http://www.oeconsortium.org/feeds/ocwcmemberfeeds.opml The entries in the OPML […]

This January, the OpenCourseWare Consortium is undergoing an organizational effectiveness review, and we need your input. We’re looking for ways to further develop an organization that best serves the needs of current and potential members while most effectively furthering the mission of the Consortium—to improve education and empower people worldwide through OpenCourseWare. We’ve created four […]