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Nov. 9: OpenEd16 CCCOER College Highlights Webinar

There are so many great presentations and so little time at the Open Education Conference so our November webinar is an opportunity to hear highlights from a variety of community college OER projects presented.  Each college will share their unique story of promoting the adoption of open educational resources and the benefits and challenges for students and faculty. The […]

Slovenia will host and organize the 2nd World OER Congress

Open Educational Resources (OER) have a central role to play in Education 2030 in the framework of Sustainable Development Goal 4 which calls for the international community to “Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all with its key pillars of access, equity and inclusion.” Together with UNESCO, Slovenia is […]

Open Education Developments in the Netherlands

The Netherlands has a new UNESCO Chair in Open Educational Resources (OER). The Dutch Ministry of Education continues to focus on and support open and online education. The Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) will celebrate 10-year anniversary of OpenCourseWare at their institution in 2017 and will be launching new projects. Robert Schuwer appointed UNESCO […]

OpenStax Comes to Poland

Open textbooks developed by Rice University have been a great success throughout the United States. OpenStax textbooks are currently used in more than 1000 university courses in the country. Although textbook prices are not as much an educational obstacle in Poland as they are in the U.S., easy access to these textbooks can be challenging […]

The OER World Map; New Features

The OER World Map project was initiated in 2015 in order to provide the “most complete and comprehensible picture of the global Open Educational Resources movement”. With the launch of version 1.1 of the platform, the OER World Map is now a “Social Education Management Information System which […] combines elements of a social networking […]