Carol Gering introduces a method for comparing OCW implementations (h/t Open Education News). I’m not entirely sure this is the methodology I would choose to compare courses (at the bottom of this analysis is an itemization of features, and I’m unsure how useful that is as a metric, especially if unweighted). Whatever your take on […]

Some news about MIT OpenCourseWare via The New Times in Kigali, Rwanda: Students and educators in Rwanda can now access course materials from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States (US) through its OpenCourseWare hosted online by the National University of Rwanda (NUR), The New Times has learnt. Last week, NUR officials […]

One of the benefits of the OCWC conference is one gets to see the multiple ways people around the world are accomplishing OCW. Delft’s presentation was interesting for a number of reasons. They are doing a full video implementation of OCW, synced up in a house tool to PowerPoints and the like. But they’ve done […]

We’ve known for years that if we want to move learning environments forward we need to move to loosely coupled assessment. We need to separate gradebooks and rosters from course materials and communities. Scott Leslie argued this point eloquently over a lunch I shared with him and others at OpenEd, and I’ve argued similar points […]

We have plenty of video and reporting on the conference coming soon, but this, to me, was the sort of thing the conference was about — getting people from different areas together to find common cause. In this clip, if you can hear over the ambient noise, you’ll see Brian Lamb giving a presentation on […]