The Peer-to-Peer University is hurtling towards a launch in 2009. I say hurtling, because just four weeks ago this was still an idea. An idea with some great backers, and an idea which got traction at iSummit 2008, but an idea nonetheless. The feedback from the Logan OCWC conference session seems to have convinced the […]

The Higher Education Funding Council for England has announced a new initiative that could jumpstart wider OCW production in England: HEFCE has announced an initial £5.7 million of funding for pilot projects that will open up existing high-quality education resources from higher education institutions to the world. The Higher Education Academy and Joint Information Systems […]

OCWC Board Member Philipp Schmidt appears in yesterday’s Wired Campus column, regarding his double-speed lecture observation: The latest academic to note the trend is Jan Philipp Schmidt, manager of the Free Courseware Project at the University of the Western Cape, in South Africa. “At the University of Taiwan, students watch calculus lectures between 1.6 and […]

I’m not sure who Kevin Donovan is, but I just read this Georgetown student’s recent proposal that Georgetown produce OpenCourseWare, and it’s a great example of not only how to make the case as a student, but of how to make the OCW case in general. He starts by directly citing a founding principle of […]

Today is Open Access Day — the First Annual Open Access Day, to be exact. As far as I can tell, no parades or fireworks are scheduled, and there’s no special feast to be had, although Canadians are welcome to make a sandwich from leftovers from their recent Thanksgiving. What there is is a challenge […]