For those of you who are not aware, the next OpenCourseWare Consortium conference will be held in Dalian, China from April 24-27, 2008. You can find out more information about the conference here. Conference attendance is open — so we hope some of you will be able to join us!

Photo by mandj98 (CC BY:) Who could have ever guessed that physics would play such a large role in drawing people toward open education resources? From the recent news story showcasing MIT Professor Walter Lewin and his highly entertaining Classical Physics video lectures to the featured Astrophysics course of Yale professor Charles Bailyn we can […]

In his latest Common Space post, Open vs. open vs. etc, telecentre.org Director Mark Surman mulls over a question that those of us involved in OCW projects might have some interest in: “why are so many people attracted to the word ‘open’?” A 30-minute thought experiment led Mark to create a chart comparing four common […]

Students from the School of Information at the University of Michigan have been learning about the OCW publishing process and are working on piloting a course themselves. These digital scribes–“dScribes”– have chosen an interesting course they are currently enrolled in and are beginning to navigate the ins and outs of the OCW workflow. The students […]

It’s been reported numerous places that United Nations University has ramped up their OpenCourseWare project. An interesting aspect of the UNU OCW initiative has been the release of course materials under the Creative Commons Attribution license. The majority of other OCW projects have chosen to publish their materials under a version of the CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike […]