Mozilla is planning a first-of-its-kind gathering of practitioners at the intersection of open education, personalized learning, and open internet technology. The inaugural Drumbeat Festival is November 3-5 in Barcelona, and we at the OpenCourseWare Consortium are thrilled to be participating and hope many of our members will join us for these essential collaborations on the […]

This article was submitted by Glen Moriarty of NIXTY. Accreditation is at the core of granting credit and/or certification. Third party accreditation bodies review colleges and universities to insure that they have adequate finances, appropriate facilities, and qualified professors. Institutional accreditation has worked fairly well for many institutions in the developed world, but is now […]

This is a post about assessment of learning – finding out what people know and learn. My main point is that there is a great opportunity to make assessment of learning more meaningful and scale, and increase the value of open educational resources. New types of assessment are enabled by tools and practices common to […]

This article was submitted by Richard Heller, of the Peoples-uni. The most common question we get in the Peoples-uni (http://peoples-uni.org), which has the use of Open Education Resources as its basis, is ‘Are you accredited?”. This may be a reasonable question, given some historic examples of low quality Internet based degrees. My original answer to […]

The first meeting to discuss the production of a guideline will take place on the 9th of September at 4PM EDT. The meeting is open to anyone who is willing to contribute to the making of the guidelines by offering expertise on the topic or constantly throwing questions that need to be answered. You can […]