OpeningupSlovenia – Nationwide research environment in open education, Slovenia as a model state Author: Davor Orlic: Chief Operating Officer @ Knowledge 4 All Foundation Ltd. & Project Lead @ OpeningupSlovenia Date: 30th October 2014 Licence: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The initiative OpeningupSlovenia[1] was presented in Ljubljana, Slovenia, […]

Open Education in Scotland Authors: Lorna M. Campbell, Cetis and Joe Wilson, Scottish Qualifications Authority Date: 30th October 2014 Licence: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Image is attributed to Lorna M. Campbell under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. “The use of technology in our future learning framework will […]

The OE Consortium is pleased to announce the addition of 6 new institutional members: College Du Page  National Changhua University of Education Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) Telkom University Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (Sultan Idris Education University) See the links below for more information about these members. College of Du […]

Governments are increasingly paying attention to the potential of OER to leverage improvements in reach, effectiveness and equaltiy of educaiton. Evan Ryan, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Edcaitonal and Cultural Affairs, recently posted this on the Department of State’s blog: Two weeks ago, outside the United Nations in midtown Manhattan, there were lights, cameras, […]

A UNESCO chair on Open Technologies for Open Educational Resources and Open Learning has been established at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljublijana, Slovenia.  The Institute has been a long time member of the Open Educaiton Consortium and was the host of the Consortium’s global 2014 conference, during which the Opening Up Slovenia initiative was announced. From the UNESCO […]