One of the most frequently asked questions when starting an opencourseware project concerns what platform to use. There are a variety of platforms to choose from, depending on how you gather your content to open and what the format of that content is. If your plan is eventually to encourage all faculty members to open […]

The OpenCourseWare Consortium seeks to recruit a Community College Outreach Manager for a full time, two-year contract. The Outreach Manager will play a key role in helping the Consortium realize its goal of increasing the participation of community colleges in the open education movement. The Outreach Manager will work as part of a small multi-cultural […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The OpenCourseWare Consortium has partnered  with the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) to maximize and expand the impact of opencourseware to community college students, faculty and learners worldwide. CCCOER represents an important voice in higher education, having over 200 affiliated community colleges that are interested in the benefits of […]

On the 8th of July, a workshop on “Promoting the Use and Creation OpenCourseWare in Rwanda” was held at the National Curriculum Development Center in Kigali. The Rwandan Ministry of Education, OLE Rwanda and the OpenCourseWare Consortium co-hosted the event. After opening remarks by Dr. Niwagaba Alfred, Director of Policy, Research and Planning for the […]

The two newly appointed UNESCO Chairs in OER jointly convened a meeting in New York in late June to begin formation of the OER Chairs network and discuss concrete actions of the network. Rory McGreal, Associate Vice President of Research and the UNESCO/COL OER Chair at Athabasca University in Canada, and Fred Mulder, Professor of […]