In the Open Education Week of this year the US Department of Education announced the Why Open Education Matters. Now you can vote for your favourite video. The video's are great to watch and it is difficult to select the best. The contest has a Public… more »
Tag: "oer"
Last friday during the 20120 World OER Congress at UNESCO HQ in Paris the 2012 Paris OER Declaration is approved. This declaration is the result of a process of couple of months with regional and online meetings and the final discussion at the Congress.… more »
The OERtest project is organising a workshop about how to give credit for learning with Open Educational Resources. The workshop is during the EDEN conference in Portugal, but you can also joining the workshop online:
Join us for the workshop 8th June… more »
From 20th to 22nd of June UNESCO is organising a World Congress on Open Education Resources.
The goal of the 2012 World OER Congress is to invite Governments to view and discuss the merits of open educational resources and to adopt a Declaration that c… more »
The Dutch Special Interest Group Open Educational Resources has written a trend report about Open Educational Resources. The original report was written in Dutch, but is now translate to English.
The authors of the report are:
Martijn Arnoldus – Cre… more »
Yesterday I organised the European Open Education Week Event in Delft. We had an interesting line-up of speakers: Dutch State Secretary for Education Halbe Zijlstra, President of the OpenCourseWare Consortium Anka Mulder, UNESCO Chair for OER Fred… more »
Aan het begin van de Open Education Week is het Trendrapport Open Education Resources (OER) gepubliceerd. Dit rapport is geschreven door de Special Interest Group Open Educational Resouces (SIG OER).
In dit rapport wordt een goed overzicht gegeven van… more »
The OpenCourseWare Consortium is organising the first annual Open Education Week from March 5 – 10, 2012. Open Education Week is a global event, raising awareness about the benefits of free and open sharing in education, especially Open Educational Reso… more »
Last night I was invited by the European Internet Foundation to speak at a Diner Debat about OpenData. There were 3 speakers:
Marcus Dapp, IT strategist for the city government of Munich and board member OKF Germany at Open Knowledge Foundation.
Ric… more »
Yesterday Sebastian Thrun announced that he is starting a new Open Education platform Udacity.com. Last year he was the initiator for the succesful open classes on Artifical Intellegence with more than 150.000 students.
The first course they will launc… more »