The Open Education Consortium is honored to present Individual Winners of Open Education Awards for Excellence 2018. The awards are presented by the Open Education Consortium Board of Directors to individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to advance openness in education. These awards recognize career achievements in two categories, Leadership & Educator. LEADERSHIP AWARD This year’s […]
OEC announces the 2018 INDIVIDUAL Open Education Award Winners
OEC Announces New Executive Director
The Open Education Consortium (OEC) is thrilled to announce our new Executive Director, Paul Stacey. Paul joins OEC after five years as Associate Director of Global Learning for Creative Commons where he helped creators, faculty, students, librarians and the public generate a global public commons of knowledge and culture. Paul has extensive experience leading Open Educational Resource initiatives […]
OEC is Named as one of the Top 10 Open Course Education Websites of 2018
For the second year in a row, Homeschool Base named Open Education Consortium (OEC) as one of the Top 10 Open Course Education Websites of 2018. Homeschool Base celebrates each new year by presenting accolades to the best educational websites, apps, and resources. Home educators, teachers, and parents alike have voiced their appreciation for […]
CCCOER Celebrates 10th Anniversary
The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) celebrates ten years of promoting awareness of and driving the adoption of open educational policies, practices, and resources. Founded in 2007 at the Foothill-De Anza College District by Chancellor Dr. Martha Kanter, who later served as Undersecretary of Education for President Obama, on the […]
Machine Translation for Open Education
Dear Open Education Community, Knowledge 4 All Foundation together with the UNESCO Chair in OER in Slovenia is testing a new machine translation service specifically tailored for educational texts from EN to 11 languages (9 European and 2 BRIC). Now we need to test its performance, as we plan to offer it to the public […]