Education-Portal.com announced the nominees for its 2012 People’s Choice Awards, honoring the Best in Free Online Education. List of nominees: Best User Experience: •    Flat World Knowledge •    UC Irvine OCW •    American Museum of Natural History Best Video Lectures: •    TedEd •    MIT OCW •    UCLA Video Lectures Best Non-Video Open Education Resource: •   […]

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Congratulations to winners of the Why Open Education Matters video competition. The Competition was organized by Creative Commons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Open Society Foundations. First Prize Blinktower from South Africa. Second Prize Laura Rachfalski and her team from the United States Third Prize Nadia Paola Mireles Torres and her collaborators from […]

OCW honored alongside other rich online reference resources including Google Art Project and World Databank. CAMBRIDGE, MA, July 23, 2012 — MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) has been selected as one of the “Best Free Reference Web Sites” for 2012 by a division of the American Library Association (ALA). The award is part of an annual series […]

The European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU) Annual Conference 2012, hosted by the Open University of Cyprus is taking place from 27-28 September 2012 in Paphos, Cyprus. The conference is organized under EU-Presidency of Cyprus and focuses on the role of open and flexible education in European higher education systems for 2020: new models, […]