There was a decent article recently in BusinessWeek about CC efforts, notable for a couple reasons: first, it’s a good introduction to the transition that Creative Commons is undergoing as Lessig focusses elsewhere and Ito takes over (Ito sees his job as turning Creative Commons into a “global mass market brand”), and second the Consortium […]

Peru’s National University of Engineering has become the first university in Peru to make its courses available as OpenCourseWare. This project is a collaboration between the National University of Engineering and Universia. The project currently has nine courses up in the areas of economics and engineering. Read Universia press release in original Spanish, or Google […]

OK, I’ll admit it’s a mouthful. But it was between that and the overly clinical OCWC_908, which sounded sort of like a vitamin supplement. For those just joining us: in the comments of our last post, Stian pushed us to get together a tag for any writing people wanted to do regarding the OCWC conference. […]

Great post today from OCWC board member Phillip Schmidt on the iSummit event he attended — what went well, what might have gone better. As a communications guy getting ready for our own conference in September, this graf, on how best to share the conference with the larger community, was particularly thought-provoking to me: The […]

It is with mixed emotion that I share that the OCW Consortium’s executive director of the past three years, John Dehlin, is taking the next step in his personal development and beginning prerequisite work for a PhD program. In order to concentrate on this study, John is stepping down as executive director. John has spoken […]