The 2012 Awards for OpenCourseWare (ACE) Committee is seeking members to help refine the program for its second year and to judge nominees for the awards to be presented at the 2012 Global OpenCourseWare Consortium Meeting April 16-18 in Cambridge, UK. The ACEs honor individuals, OCW sites and individual courses that have made significant contributions […]

The fourth Digital Media for Learning Competition has recently been announced, offering two tracks focusing on badges. The first, Badges for Lifelong Learning, offers awards ranging from US$10,000 to $80,000 to build digital badges for lifelong learning.  The competition is open to groups with “badge-friendly” content, educators, designers, developers, technologist and learning assessment strategists.  The […]

Creative Commons is seeking highly motivated and organized individuals to fill two positions: Senior Project Manager and Senior Project Analyst. Both positions are full-time with full benefits. Both positions will be key members of the team supporting Department of Labor TAACCCT grantees.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., (August 22, 2011) – A consortium of leaders in the open education movement has been awarded a grant from the European Union’s Lifelong Learning program. The consortium partners include the OpenCourseWare Consortium, Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands), Universidad Politécnica Madrid (Spain), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), Universitat de Barcelona (Spain), Université de Lyon, […]

by Peter Smith Many institutions can significantly increase their capacity to educate more learners, without increasing costs, by effectively granting them “advanced placement” towards the degree they are seeking. And research indicates that, for the learners that go through a portfolio development course that assesses their formal and experiential prior learning, the process is in […]