Open education site noted for providing exceptional online materials. Cambridge, MA, July 29, 2010 – The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announced today MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) has been named as a recipient of the Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE). MIT OpenCourseWare is Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s groundbreaking effort to […]

(from Mary Lou Forward) This week marks the end of my first year as Executive Director of the OCW Consortium.  This past year’s staff efforts could be characterized as building and connecting. We’ve added staff from around the world to focus on the needs of our members, promote openness in education with new audiences, and […]

(Posted by Steve Carson) As we prepare for next year’s OCWC Global Meeting in Cambridge, MA (May 4-6, 2011), where we will celebrate 10 years of OCW, one thing we’d like to build is a comprehensive timeline of OCW-related events—site launches, organizational milestones, traffic levels, etc—representing all of the many global contributors to the movement.  […]

The schedule for the OCW Consortium upcoming monthly webinar series is as follows: “Automated Video Transcription” by Mitja Jermol from Videolectures.net. July 1, 10AM EDT (UTC/GMT -4 hours). Mitja will talk about the new automated video transcription technology which will enable OCW videos to be more searchable, easier to be translated, and more effective in […]

Open.Michigan just posted a new position for an Open Education Coordinator. This position would engage the University of Michigan (U-M) campus and its peer institutions on open education and cultivate a robust community of practitioners in this area, from content producers to instructors to librarians to researchers and beyond. This individual would build a network […]