From MIT:Â Two free courses published on MIT’s OpenCourseWare (OCW) site have each received more than one million total visits since publication. The OCW site was launched by MIT in 2002, and the two courses,

Great article by Jeffrey Brainard in the Nov. 10th Chronicle of Higher Education about collaborations which assist aspriring engineers as they make the transition between 2- and 4-year colleges. This type of collaboration strikes me as a great opportunity for OCW-providers. Brainard observes that: the road leading a two-year engineering student to be a full-fledged […]

Image via Wikipedia A simple observation, but one I’ve been bumping into all kinds of ways lately. In the traditional division of courses into Content, Interaction, and Assessment, lectures are part of that block of “interaction”. And that’s why, for example, when noodling around with how to put OCW onto a platform like WordPress, it […]

Philipp Schmidt discusses one of the takeaways from Logan that I found interesting as well — students love to watch video at increased speed when offered the option, e.g. watch an hour lecture in 45 minutes by playing it at 150% speed: One factoid from the Open Ed conference in Utah that has been banging […]

From the incomparable Jane Park at Creative Commons: Last week, a bill enabling the California Community Colleges to integrate open educational resources (OER) into its core curriculum was signed into law by Governor Schwarzenegger. AB 2261 authorizes the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges “to establish a pilot program to provide faculty and […]