Candace Thille from Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative, spoke about a
research network that CM and the Open University UK are starting in
order to find better ways to analyse effectiveness of open educational
resources. Besides the much needed focus on rigorous analysis of the
benefits of open education on the individual learner (something that
only very few institutions other [...]
I just saw a great presentation by Haishuo Lee who works at a technical University of Taiwan. He presented a model that I think holds a lot of promise for UWC and other Universities in Africa as well.
The University created video lectures for three of its foundational courses (in this case Calculus I and II [...]
Today I received an email from the wonderful Delia Browne, who is chasing all open education track participants at the iSummit 08 (in Sapporo) for feedback on the event. Thorough review and feedback of workshops is something that doesn’t happen often enough — everyone is too busy to get on with the next one — [...]
Walking towards the conference venue on this last day of the open education track at the iSummit 08 I found myself humming along to the melody of Mark Morrison’s “Return of the Mack” – how fitting I thought – since this was truly the Return of the Track (the Open Education Track).
Last year Gunner and [...]
At the Open Courseware Consortium (OCWC) meeting in Dalian (China) the OCWC elected its first Board of Directors, concluded the ratification process for the by-laws by the membership, and announced its registration as a non-profit organisation in the State of Massachusetts. It’s no coincidence, that Massachusetts was chosen, since the MIT has been generous host, [...]
Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams from UCT’s Opening Scholarship project and I ran a short OER Workshop for participants of the ICEL 2008 conference yesterday. We split the workshop into a shorter seminar/presentation and a longer hands-on practical session and ended up having a lot of fun with participants from the Cape Town universities as well as from [...]
I spent the last three days at the Open Courseware Consortium meeting hosted by the China Open Educational Resources network in Dalian, frantically running from meeting to meeting, promoting the Cape Town Open Education Declaration, doing a presentation on how OCW can be extended through accreditation, and participating in the OCWC board sessions.
The Open [...]
This is a joint initiative by some of the UNU institutes. For the UNU MERIT courses on innovation and development we linked lecture recordings with slides via slideshare, and also posted some papers written by PhD students who were taking the course last year.
Feedback would be great!
United Nations University
Public Announcement
4 February 2008
MR/E03/08
United Nations University Launches [...]
