Update (12/08/2008): The survey deadline has been extended to December 14th. Just noticed this from Creative Commons — due to a recent high profile use of the CC-BY license Creative Commons is looking to better understand how people define noncommercial use. They’ve put up a lengthy survey, the first part of which defines the type […]

We’d like to welcome the following institutional members, whose applications were officially approved in the last month, to the Consortium: Fundação Getulio Vargas / FGV Online (Brazil) Universidad de Chile (Chile) The Open University of Israel (Israel) Open Institute of Law (Russia) Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain) Universidad Internacional de Andalucía (Spain) Universidad de […]

We’ve decided to extend the deadline for our Call for Papers for the Houston OCWC/Connexions conference to Monday, November 24. Paper proposals only need to be a paragraph or two, and should be on some aspect of OCW. The focus this year is on collaboration, but if you have an idea that is not strictly […]

There’s been a bit of ennui about institutional approaches to open content in the blogosphere lately, so it was interesting to see this preliminary data regarding OCW production come in last Thursday. The data set generating this graph is not completely clean yet, but it’s pretty close. The graph represents the number of courses published […]

We’ve been pretty busy here recently — or rather, we’re always busy, but recently we’ve been so in a way that has got in the way of blog posting. So it seems as good a time as any to remind everyone that even when this space is dead, the ocwnews twitter feed is hopping. The […]