Please join the Community College Consortium (CCCOER) at the Open Education Consortium for a free webinar on how to share and remix open educational resources and open textbooks. Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 Time: 2 pm Eastern / 11 am Pacific Description:  When we create, copy, or otherwise use instructional materials, copyright law is somehow present, whether or not […]

NEW INITIATIVES TO ADVANCE EDUCATIONAL EQUALITY AND OPPORTUNITY AROUND THE WORLD Open education drives innovation in global higher education   LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA and NEWTON, MA – The OpenCourseWare Consortium today announced its new name: The Open Education Consortium.  The new name embraces trends in higher education globally towards open sharing and scaling access to education through […]

The Consortium is pleased to announce addition of eight new members. New Institutional Members Université de Nantes, France Virginia Community College System, USA Tidewater Community College, USA Delaware County Community College, USA Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia New Organizational Members Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN), Netherlands Lektorium LLC., Russia More information […]

April 14, 2014 – The OpenCourseWare Consortium announces the 2014 winners of Project Awards for OpenCourseWare Excellence (ACE). Project awards is a new category aiming to recognize efforts that support the production, use and/or promotion of OCW/OER in ways other than the creation and use of material resources. The ACE Awards committee, populated by educators […]

April 14, 2014 – The OpenCourseWare Consortium announces the 2014 winners of Site and Course Awards for OpenCourseWare Excellence (ACE) in three categories: 1) Outstanding Site, 2) Outstanding Course and 3) Open MOOC. The ACE Awards committee, populated by educators and open education advocates from around the world, reviews and selects winners. Sites and courses […]