Check out The Web Difference, the class blog for John Palfrey and David Weinberger’s fantastic class at Harvard Law. The site is an interesting take on dynamic open education–the instructors utilize lots of open content and encourage students to participate in class discussions publicly via the blog. This is not entirely new–Wiley‘s been doing this […]

Thomas Friedman, author and columnist for the New York Times, gave the keynote presentation at MIT’s recent event in celebration of reaching 1800 published OCW courses. The speech was insightful and timely, but also very well-delivered. Its up on YouTube for your enjoyment. I highly recommend it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcE2ufqtzyk&feature=user

An interesting OCW-related article.

Check out MIT’s slick new site for OCW video!!! Kudos to MIT.

The quest for sustainability in open courseware Created by Paul Trafford (University of Oxford) on July 15, 2007 I’ve been reflecting recently on the subject of open courseware and, more specifically, OpenCourseWare following the keynote for the Sakai conference in Amsterdam delivered confidently and enthusiastically by Hal Abelson (a podcast is available). In this post […]