Dear Open Education Community We are pleased to announce that Open Education Week 2016 will take place from March 7 to 11, 2016. Open Education Week (OEW) is an annual celebration of the global Open Education Movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. Initiated in 2012, OEW has since evolved into a truly global event attracting […]
Save the Date: Open Education Week 2016
Tufts University’s Biology of Water and Health MOOC Continues …
Due to the success of Tufts University’s first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), “The Biology of Water and Health – Part 1,” offered in partnership with the Open Education Consortium and edX, Tufts will be offering two exciting online learning opportunities this summer and fall: For all those who missed it the first time around, […]
Open Education Consortium project is marquee story in new book on social learning
Boston Children’s Hospital project OPENPediatrics is the lead story in “The New Social Learning” In updating their book The New Social Learning, authors Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner devote the first four pages of chapter one (http://bit.ly/1FOtAuT) to an innovative program from OEC member Boston Children’s Hospital that provides free and open-access education to […]
Reliving the OE Global 2015 moments (through blog posts and more)
Sometimes, when you are right in the middle of something, it is difficult to enjoy the scene, nor does it allow you to see the big picture. The Open Education Week in March and the Open Education Global Conference 2015 in April kept us at the Consortium quite occupied earlier in the year. Now, we […]
Open Education Week: Please give us feedback about preferred dates!
Dear Open Education Community Thanks to you, Open Education Week is getting more attention, with a wider range of events. At the same time, we’ve heard from many of you that early March is a difficult time to hold Open Education Week. We would like to get your input on the best time to hold Open […]