Still catching up with some conference video. Below, Jacques Raynauld talks about OpenSyllabus, a web-based syllabus builder which plays nicely with Sakai and other LMS tools and can also be used as a stand-alone product. The initial audience for this will likely be Sakai users who want a little more initial structure in course construction. […]

I’m probably the last person to this party, but I just read David Wiley’s 2005-2012: The OpenCourseWars (including the deleted scenes) and it’s one of the best things I’ve read in a long time, not just on opencourseware but on open ed in general. It’s not just the format (it’s written as a history written […]

Friends, Romans, Twits: So you knew it was coming, right? We’ve put together an ocwnews twitter feed. And yes, I’ll admit, a good part of the feed will be post notifications of stuff we put here. But the plan is to go further than that, and also use it to highlight stories on the web […]

Very neat news from Jared Stein last night: Tonight I release the first all-new version of the OpenShare modification for Moodle 1.9, which I demonstrated last week at OpenEd 2008. You may cut to the chase or simply download the OpenShare mod now. Go to Jared’s blog for more info, but here’s a preview of […]

I don’t know if it’s just due to the recent conference, but there’s been a huge uptick in discussion about OCW in the past couple days, and in an attempt to keep up with it I’m providing these quick hits: First, there were a bunch of excellent posts about conference sessions. Ken Udas on why […]