We are now taking registrations for the Connexions/OCWC Regional Meeting. Here’s what it is — a two day conference, the first day focusing on collaboration in the Connexions community and related initiatives such as OER Health, and the second day focusing on collaboration in the Americas in the OCW community. It’s an extraordinary opportunity to […]

As you may be aware, the Consortium will be conducting a search in the next six to eight months for a new executive director.  I am chairing the search committee and am pleased to be joined by two other members of our board of directors, Yoshimi Fukuhara of Keio University/JOCW and Anka Mulder of […]

I usually don’t cover top ten lists of courses — there’s an awful lot of them, and if I started to cover them all, I’d really have time to do nothing else. But Education Portal is a very popular site that’s spent an awful lot of time promoting OCW, in lists such as the 7 […]

We’re very excited to announce that University of Alaska Fairbanks has joined the OCWC. From Chris Lott, a technologist on the project, via his blog Ruminate: Having finally negotiated the administrative paperwork necessary to proceed, the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) has officially begun its open education initiative– uLearn– by becoming a member of the […]

This is really pretty neat, although the focus is very narrow: In an effort to jump-start the creation of freely available, easily understood classroom lessons and textbooks about parallel computing, Rice is co-sponsoring a contest with $500 cash prizes for the five best lessons submitted to the open-education site Connexions. The contest – the 2008-’09 […]