The OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCW Consortium) Board of Directors has elected Anka Mulder as its new President. The announcement was made at the Consortium’s global conference, which included representatives from the more than 250 universities and associated organizations worldwide committed to advancing opencourseware (OCW). Mulder currently serves as the director of education and student affairs at […]

CourseWare Awards Announced at Annual Global Conference The OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCW Consortium) recently announced the inaugural winners of the Awards for OpenCourseWare Excellence (ACE) in the Courseware category at the 2011 global conference in Cambridge, Mass. on May 5. The awards category recognized outstanding course materials in “video and multimedia” and “text and illustrations.” “The […]

MIT OpenCourseWare has posted an opening for our publication director position. Our publication director heads up the 15-20 person team that works directly with MIT faculty to publish their materials on our site; the publication director also serves on our senior management team, providing strategic direction to the program; and leads innovative efforts such as […]

The three days of OCWC Global 2011 held in Cambridge, Massachusetts were filled with great diversity, excitement and inspiration. The conference was built around the theme of the past, present and future of OCW in celebration of 10 years of OCW. Pre-conference workshops drew much interest to important issues in OCW. Workshops were held on […]

Authors: Kathleen Ludewig Omollo (University of Michigan) and Monica Mawoyo (OER Africa) One of the often touted benefits of open educational resources (OER) is that the associated Creative Commons licenses allow anyone worldwide to view, copy, adapt, and redistribute them. This does not, however, mean that an OER developed at one institution can simply be […]