OCWC President Steve Carson was recently a guest on Talis, a UK-based podcast, about the Consortium. The show is 27 minutes long. In the interview, Steve talks about where we came from, where we are now, and what the future may hold. You can find the podcast here.

Ok, so maybe that headline is a bit of an exaggeration, but not by much. The OpenShare mod for Moodle makes granular sharing of Moodle course resources easy, and is an easy way for Moodle using institutions to do an initial OCW implementation. Partially due to our abject begging, Jared Stein has released a screencast […]

For the OCWC Regional Meeting in Houston this February we will be focusing on questions of of how we work together. From the Call for Papers we put up today: As the OpenCourseWare movement has matured, collaboration with others, both inside and outside the movement, has been a key ingredient to its success. In many […]

Been meaning to get to this for some time: a week or so ago, Students for a Free Culture approved what they are calling the “Wheeler Declaration”, a short definition of what defines an “Open University”: An open university is one in which The research the university produces is open access. The course materials are […]

I mentioned the varieties of approaches to running open courses are coming fast and furious these days. In addition to the P2PU model, people might want to also check out the “enveloped learning” model that Leigh Blackall is hashing out at Otago. The basic idea seems to be instead of starting with a course frame […]