As we approach the celebration of MIT OpenCourseWare’s 10th anniversary, we’d like to share our users’ stories of OCW’s impact in their own words. Record and upload a video describing your OCW story to YouTube and e-mail us at ocw-outreach@mit.edu to let us know where to find it. We’ll be selecting user videos for inclusion […]

The African Virtual University (AVU) www.avu.org launched an interactive Open Education Resources (OER) portal OER@AVU. The portal is available at http://oer.avu.org and contains quality resources developed together with 12 universities in 10 African countries. The resources are released as Open Education Resources under the Creative Commons open licence. Through the portal, the AVU will enable […]

Would you like to collect and analyze stronger data for your OCW site? Are you wondering how to aggregate information on those who are visiting your website? Do you have questions on how to effectively analyze the data? Join the OCW Consortium webinar on “Google Analytics: A look at MIT OpenCourseWare’s implementation”. Joe Martis, Production […]

The OpenCourseWare Consortium has extended the deadline to accept nominations for the inaugural Awards for OpenCourseWare Excellence (ACE). The first OCW ACEs will be presented at the May 2011 OCW Consortium Global meeting. The Awards for OCW excellence will recognize outstanding individual contributions to the OCW/OER movement, exemplary OCW member sites and excellent individual course […]

With support from the Stanton Foundation, OCW publishes free foundational course materials structured for independent study. Cambridge MA, January 12, 2011 — Today, MIT OpenCourseWare launched beta versions of five courses that represent a significant new approach to openly sharing educational resources. Dubbed “OCW Scholar” courses, these materials are designed from the start for independent […]