The OpenCourseWare Consortium is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the second annual Awards for OpenCourseWare Excellence (ACE). The OCW ACE’s will be presented at the next global OpenCourseWare Consortium meeting in Cambridge, U.K., April 16-18, 2012. The Awards or OpenCourseWare Excellence recognize outstanding individual contributions to the OCW/OER movement, exemplary OCW member […]

Efforts to expand access to education and knowledge to be featured in global events CAMBRIDGE, Mass., (October 25, 2011) – 5-10 March 2012 has been declared the first annual Open Education Week. A global event, Open Education Week seeks to raise awareness about the benefits of free and open sharing in education, especially Open Educational […]

The OpenCourseWare Consortium and the Support Centre for Open Resources in Education (SCORE) of The Open University, UK, invite session proposals for their combined 2012 global conference, Innovation and Impact: Openly collaborating to enhance education. The OpenCourseWare Consortium (http://www.oeconsortium.org/) is a worldwide community of universities and organizations committed to open sharing in post-secondary education by […]

The US Department of Labor announced recipients of nearly five hundred million dollars in grant money under the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) program. All grant recipients have committed to releasing materials produced under Creative Commons Attribution licenses, enlarging the pool of career training OER. The press release, including the list […]

The OPAL Awards for quality and innovation through open educational practices recognize outstanding achievements in OER policy, promotion and use which have resulted in the improvement of quality and innovation in educational organizations. Submissions are invited in three categories; bodies which influence policy, institutions and learning contexts. The OPAL Awards are developed by the Open […]