Entrepreneurship course list supported by a grant from the NASDAQ OMX Foundation. CAMBRIDGE, MA, April 23, 2012 — MIT OpenCourseWare has released a new cross-disciplinary course list presenting the core academic materials—including syllabi, lecture notes, assignments and exams—from 66 MIT entrepreneurship courses. The courses are organized into lists that cover core and supplemental entrepreneurship concepts […]

Courses selected from among the 17,000 courses now shared openly by universities worldwide. CAMBRIDGE, UK, April 16, 2012 — The OpenCourseWare Consortium has announced the 2012 winners of course Awards for OpenCourseWare Excellence (ACE). The following five courses were selected in the text and still image category: Vulnerability to Environmental Change by Gina Ziervogel, University […]

Creative Commons has opened a public comment period for the first draft of CC 4.0 licenses. Guidelines for license development include: Producing a 4.0 suite that addresses pressing challenges of important adopters, including those in countries where localized version of CC licenses have not existed, and never may, for any number of reasons; Maximizing interoperability, […]

Course awards to be announced at the annual Meeting of the OpenCourseWare Consortium on April 16. CAMBRIDGE, MA, March 29, 2012 — The OpenCourseWare Consortium has announced the 2012 winners of site Awards for OpenCourseWare Excellence (ACE). The 2012 Outstanding New Site Award for OpenCourseWare Excellence, awarded to a site launched in the previous calendar […]

The open community shares a need for more information to help us with our work. We know, for example, there are many policies supporting open education at institutions and governments throughout the world. Many of us know some of these policies, but it would be extremely helpful if we had a single database of open […]