MOOC pairs cutting edge online assessments with legendary lectures and demonstrations by renowned MIT professor CAMBRIDGE, MA, May 30, 2013 — Much attention is given to the automated assessments that play a key role in allowing massive open online courses (MOOCs) to scale, and rightly so, as these tools permit hundreds of thousands of learners […]

In a ceremony at the OCWC Global 2013 Conference, the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) President, Tian Belawati, Rector, Universitas Terbuka, Indonesia, and the OCWC President, Anka Mulder of Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands signed a Memorandum of Understanding. Both parties undertake to explore opportunities in the following areas: Mutual promotion […]

OCW CONSORTIUM ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF 2013 COURSE AWARDS FOR OPENCOURSEWARE EXCELLENCE Awards recognize significant contributions to free and open education Cambridge, MA – The OpenCourseWare Consortium announces the course winners for the 2013 Awards in OpenCourseWare Excellence.  The award winners were recognized during a special awards ceremony at the annual OCW Consortium Conference held in […]

Leading educators from more than 40 countries will join together at the upcoming Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Learning International Networks Consortium (LINC) conference entitled, “Realizing the Dream: Education Becoming Available to All. Will the World Take Advantage?” The sixth annual conference will take place on the MIT campus from June 16-19, 2013. Global e-Learning […]

American Association of Physics Teachers offers 8 CEU’s for course participants Mechanics ReView, a new Massive Open Online Course offered by MIT on the edX platform this summer, will offer eight Continuing Education Units through a collaboration with the American Association of Physics Teachers. The credits will be available at a cost of approximately $250. […]