Remember the OCWC Toolkit? The OpenCourseWare Consortium’s Toolkit came about from the Discussion forum on the Consortium website in 2007. People asked questions like how to install a CMS for an OER project or what to say when talking to top administrators about starting a project. Contents were added by community members to create what became […]

The Open Education Consortium is pleased to announce the addition of the following new members: Institutional Members 1. Hanze University of Applied Sciences, (Netherlands) Hanze University of Applied Sciences (Hanze UAS), Groningen – the Netherlands, has establishments in Groningen, Assen, Leeuwarden and Amsterdam with approximately 26000 students and 3000 staff members. Hanze University of Applied Sciences, […]

Hokkaido University, Tufts University, and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), are currently running open MOOCs this month on the edX platform through the OECx partnership program.   OEC entered into a partnership with edX last April to allow its member institutions to re-use existing open courseware to develop Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).   The re-use of […]

Open College@Kaplan University (OC@KU) explains Open Portfolio: a structured learning environment, in this free, open webinar.  Please join us to get a demo of how the tool works. DATE: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 TIME: 1:00 pm EDT, 10:00 am PDT Offered through Open College at Kaplan University (OC@KU), Open Portfolio provides a single location that […]

The Open Education Consortium is pleased to again announce the winners of its annual ACE awards—which provide annual recognition to outstanding contributions in the Open Education Consortium community. These awards recognize distinctive open education sites, technological innovations, notable open courses, and exemplary leaders in Open Education worldwide. “The Consortium greatly appreciates the enormous and significant […]