The Open Education Consortium and the AGH University of Science and Technology, organizers of the Open Education Global Conference 2016, invite proposals for conference sessions to take place in Kraków, Poland April 12-14. The theme of the Open Education Global Conference 2016 is Convergence Through Collaboration. The conference will feature five tracks with Convergence through Collaboration as the […]

Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for a free, open webinar on finding the most recently updated open textbooks, open courses, and open educational resources for college.  Speakers will share their open collections: how to find content, peer review processes, and strategies for encouraging faculty adoptions to improve teaching and learning and […]

The Biology of Water and Health: Sustainable Interventions from Tuft’s University in partnership with OEC and edX (OECx) premieres Tuesday, September 29th, 2015.  This is the second MOOC in the popular series on Biology of Water and Health which over six thousand learners worldwide have already engaged. Register for the Biology of Water and Health Today About the […]

Open Education Consortium member OPENPediatrics has been named as on of five finalists in the Education category, and 25 finalists overall, for the 2015 Tech Awards. The Tech Awards are given out annually by the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California, to recognize projects that address globally significant problems through innovative uses of technology. The Tech Awards […]

On August 4th, a coalition of organizations sent a letter to President Obama to call for a national policy that makes all publicly funded educational materials to use open license. This was a response to the call for ideas to strengthen the U.S. Open Government National Action Plan by the Office of Science and Technology […]