MIT OpenCourseWare, OpenStudy, Codecademy, and Peer 2 Peer University join to offer “mechanical” MOOC CAMBRIDGE, MA, August 21, 2012 — In the past year, schools including Stanford, MIT and Harvard–and spinoffs including Coursera and Udacity–have begun offering massive open online courses (MOOCs) where students numbering in the hundreds of thousands are taught by one or […]

Title: Public Consultation on “Opening up Education – a proposal for a European Initiative to enhance education and skills development through new technologies” Policy fields Education Target groups All stakeholders affected by education and training policies and systems, including school education, vocational education and training, higher education and adult education. Contributions are expected from public […]

A new series of videos to be published this fall follows 14 MIT freshmen through their introduction to hands-on science. CAMBRIDGE, MA, August 14, 2012 — Each year, groups of MIT freshmen are introduced to MIT’s laboratory environment through a four-week January course called 5.301 Introductory Lab Techniques. In January 2012, a film crew followed […]

Twenty six African Universities agree with the African Virtual University’s plans to collaboratively develop and deliver educational programs and release all materials as OER. Nairobi, 19 July, 2012. Vice Chancellors from twenty six African Universities have endorsed the collaboration framework for implementation of the African Virtual University Multinational Project II. This was at the conclusion […]

Gerry Hanley, MERLOT Executive director, announced the launching of MERLOT’s OER and Accessibility Teaching Commons at the Sloan-C Emerging Technology for Online Learning conference held two weeks ago in Las Vegas.  Co-presenting with Mark Riccobono, National Federation for the Blind and Una Daly, Community College Outreach Manager at OCW Consortium, he described the new site […]