OCW shares honor with LinkedIn, TEDTalks, National Geographic, The Onion, Mayo Clinic and others CAMBRIDGE, MA, August 25, 2010 –TIME Magazine has named MIT OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.mit.edu) one of the 50 Best Websites of 2010. Selected by the editors of TIME.com, MIT OpenCourseWare shares the honor with such notable and well-known websites as LinkedIn, Etsy, The […]

Reuven Carlyle,  Representative from Seattle to the Washington State Legislature, has written an engaging blog on the importance of Open Educational Resources.  Standing for re-election in a few months, he is calling on both veteran legislators and new candidates to outline their policy plans.  Mr. Carlyle begins the outline of his own policy priorities with the importance […]

The idea of open teaching — opening access to the course materials and interaction to anyone, not just the enrolled students — seems foreign and a bit wacky to many professors and lecturers. More students sound like more work, less opportunity to engage with each individual student, and the practicalities of facilitating a diverse group […]

The US Department of Education has issued a notice of the Secretary’s priorities for discretionary grants, which mentions OER as a priority. The summary states: “The Secretary of Education proposes priorities that the Department of Education (Department) may use for any appropriate discretionary grant program in fiscal year (FY) 2011 and future years. We take […]

The OCW Consortium Webinar in August is on «Using Creative Commons for Open Educational Resources». If you are interested in finding out which Creative Commons license to use for different situations, please join us on August 5 at 10 A.M. EDT. Lila Bailey, Counsel of Creative Commons will give a talk, and a Q&A session […]