From the Bangkok Post: The world’s largest literacy project has been launched starting from Thailand doubling the size of the Thai language Internet almost overnight with a focus to expand to other countries in Asia using an advanced form of machine translation to translate freely available content into local language. AsiaOnline has launched a portal, […]

Wired Campus covers the use of widgets to share courseware: Mark C. Marino, a lecturer in the writing program at the University of Southern California, has turned his Web page for a writing course he’s teaching into a series of modular “widgets” that others can easily drop into their own Web pages. Mr. Marino says […]

Last January, the University of Basque Country (also known as UPV/EHU) joined the Consortium, and they began to solicit OCW course proposals from faculty shortly after. They have already received 82 applications. They’ve now announced their targets for next year. Twenty-three courses will be published by this December, followed by an additional twenty-two courses in […]

I’m convinced many people steer away from OpenCourseWare because they believe it is more complex and restrictive than it truly is. OpenCourseWare, as defined by the Consortium, has a fairly broad definition. On our membership application we define it as: Free and open digital publication of high quality university-level educational materials — often including syllabi, […]

Possibly of interest to some of our members — the State of Virginia has issued a Request for Collaboration on a “Flexbook”: Secretary of Technology Aneesh Chopra and Secretary of Education Tom Morris today announced the release of a Request for Collaboration (RFC) to career and technical centers, school divisions, and institutions of higher education […]