As you may be aware the Consortium just announced the inaugural winners of the individual Awards for OpenCourseWare Excellence (ACE). The individual recipients were selected by the board of directors at the January meeting. The award program also includes awards for sites and courses, which are selected by an awards committee, which is beginning the […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., (March 10, 2011) — The OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCW Consortium) has announced the inaugural winners of the individual categories for the Awards for OpenCourseWare Excellence (ACE Awards). Managing Director at Portal Universia, S.A, Pedro Aranzadi Elejabeitia is the recipient of the OpenCourseWare Consortium’s Leadership ACE Awards for his efforts in organizing Spanish and Latin […]

One of the items of business for the Consortium board at our recent January meeting was to propose the dues level for 2012. As you may know, membership dues were introduced as an element of Consortium sustainability in 2010. Dues levels were set a level we hoped would not discourage new or existing members from […]

As a lead up to the OCW Consortium meeting in May, the Consortium is tweeting out events and user comments from 10 years of OCW over the next 9 weeks. Follow the fun here here. These tweets are based on my notes and contributions from others across the Consortium and include the events found on […]

Additional content to be added to MIT OpenCourseWare’s Highlights for High School site CAMBRIDGE, MA — The Dow Chemical Company announced today the establishment of the MIT-Dow Outreach Fund designed to develop and support the science and engineering careers of underrepresented minorities and women. The fund, a five-year, $2 million commitment from The Dow Chemical […]