Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for a free, open webinar on emerging guidelines for the design and development of open courses to enhance teaching and learning.   Open courses are designed and developed collaboratively by faculty and instructional specialists (designers, librarians, technologists) using open educational resources rather than traditional publisher materials to lower costs […]

U.S. President Barack Obama announced the government’s commitment to promote Open Education as part of the U.S. National Action Plan for the Open Government Partnership.  From the White House blog: President Obama announced that in addition to the commitments outlined in our current National Action Plan, the United States will take additional steps to make […]

The Open Education Consortium and Athabasca University, organizers of the Open Education Global Conference 2015, invite proposals for conference sessions. The Open Education Consortium is a worldwide community of universities and organizations committed to advancing positive developments through open education. Athabasca University is a leading Canadian online university with a focus on the future of education. […]

The Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC)  launched OPEN Washington On 24th July 2014 SBCTC launched Open Washington, a website that connects faculty to the nation’s finest open resources to save students money. For more information, read the press release available here. University of Cape Town, South Africa launched its new official […]

Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for a free, open webinar featuring emerging open textbook collections that support faculty adoptions of open educational resources for high impact college courses.  Speakers will share the process of finding and/or developing open textbooks for their collections, the peer review process, and strategies for encouraging […]