Well, this is my first article. Let me give you my “official introduction first” Lucifer (Luc) Chu graduated from Taiwan’s National Central University in 1998 with a BS in electrical engineering. He is the founder of OOPS(Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System). He spends half of his time in Taiwan and half flying around the world to […]

So this week I have been mostly ranting about creativity (or lack of). I’ve been inspired by a few things recently such as the We are what we do approach to friendly, guilt-inducing, but essentially practical advice marketing around environmental awareness – their key message is small actions, lots of people, big change. Then there […]

I’ve just been in a Google webinar and discovered there is a newly launched benchmarking service, discussed on the Google Analytics blog. If you share your data anonymously, you’ll be able to benchmark it against other industry verticals. Being able to set targets for OpenLearn was difficult when we started out. We had some great […]

Here’s the latest presentation created by the University of Michigan OER team. Last week, I presented this slideshow in two sections of a UM undergraduate Sociology class. The goal was to explain the not only the history of open educational resources initiatives, but also to discuss the student-centric publication model we’re proposing for the University […]

By Lisa Petrides, featured in Inside Higher Ed The concept of aggregating, sharing, and collaboratively enriching free educational materials over the Internet has been emerging over the past several years. The movement has been led by faculty members and content specialists who believe that making lesson plans, training modules and full courses freely available can […]