So — blogging will resume here soon, we’ve been pretty sunk in the conference but when we get back we will summarize and reflect. In the meantime, please check our conference twitter feed and the OCWC Conference wiki to get your remote fix. Some video is at our Google Video account, and a number of […]

The University of Alicante has annouced they will reach a target of having 83 courses released as OpenCourseWare by the end of this year. A selection of the courses that will be adding: TRADUCCIÓN JURÍDICA — Legal translation CORROSIÓN — Corrosion GÉNERO, DESIGUALDAD Y EXCLUSIÓN — Gender, inequality and exclusion LITERATURA Y CULTURA EN EL […]

From the MIT News Office: Cecilia d’Oliveira ’77, SM ’79 has been named executive director of MIT OpenCourseWare, having led the groundbreaking organization on an interim basis for the past year, Provost L. Rafael Reif announced this week. There’s a decent size article about Cecilia’s extensive background at MIT’s news site. I can sum it […]

From the Creative Commons site: Emulating MIT and a host of other OCW institutions, the Stanford School of Engineering has jumped on the OER bandwagon by releasing ten of its courses online in multiple formats. The pilot open courseware portal, known as Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE), is Stanford’s first move towards offering full-length course videos […]

Very nice article by Noam Cohen in Sunday’s NYT about Connexions, an OCWC affiliate member and leader in the open textbook movement. Cohen starts with an account of R. Preston McAfee’s decision to allow free downloads of his economics textbook (or low-cost print-on-demand from Lulu and Flat World Knowledge) rather than with a traditional publishing […]