Big congratulations to the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) on the launch of their OER Portal!  The Open Education Consortium, represented by Mary Lou Forward, was pleased to join NOUN, UNESCO, over 150 delegates from Nigerian universities, Creative Commons Kenya, the African Council for Distance Education, and the National Center for Distance Learning of […]

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released a new publication entitled: Open Educational Resources: A Catalyst for Innovation  About the publication (from OECD website): Education is the key to economic, social and environmental progress, and governments around the world are looking to improve their education systems. The future of education in the 21st […]

All over the world, including India, there is an aspiration that every student should be actively engaged in their learning. Achieving this aspiration demands highly skilled teachers and quality teacher education. Enroll today for class starting on Nov 23 This course introduces teacher educators to Open Educational Resources – freely available learning materials that can be […]

Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for a free and open webinar on how OER is being used to design and offer low-cost competency-based certificates and degrees.  Competency-based degrees can offer a shorter path to a degree because students advance as soon as they master the subject matter. Students work at their […]

  Today, the OER community releases the Foundations for OER Strategy Development. This document provides a concise analysis of where the global OER movement currently stands: what the common threads are, where the greatest opportunities and challenges lie, and how we can more effectively work together as a community. Ideas for this document came from […]