The OpenCourseWare Consortium board elections were held in April, and we are pleased to welcome four institutional representatives and two organizational representatives to the OCWC board of directors. They are an accomplished and dedicated group who will drive open education forward to a new dimension. We also bid farewell and extend sincere gratitude to the […]

Drop the ‘e’ get on with the learning – by Emily Puckett Rodgers, Open.Michigan, University of Michigan This year’s OpenCourseWare Consortium meeting was (by necessity, since it was at Queens College in Cambridge) smaller, but more energized. Much of the friendly criticism I had for last year’s meeting was addressed with shorter sessions, more opportunity […]

(reposted from Timothy Voller http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/32443) In March, Creative Commons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Open Society Institute launched the Why Open Education Matters Video Competition. The goal of the competition is to raise awareness of Open Educational Resources (OER) and solicit short, creative videos that help explain what Open Educational Resources are and […]

Please join us May 1st, 1:00 pm EST for the CCCOER Webinar “Finding and Selecting  High Quality Open Educational Resources”.   Hear from a community college librarian, the director of a statewide open textbook project, and an open textbook publisher on best approaches for finding and selecting high-quality, accessible open textbooks and open educational resources to […]

I had the pleasure of attending a day of presentations and activities at the Open University, UK last Thursday as the closing of the annual Open Couseware Consortium Global Meeting in England.   Open University was founded over 40 years ago to provide open access to  higher education for those who wanted to earn a degree […]