Continuing our theme of not having a theme (the news cycle sometimes suffers from great dialogue but poor plot), please find below a smattering of the news of roughly-last-week! As always, if we’ve missed something, let us know! But first, some Shameless Self-Promotion… The Open Education Conference starts tomorrow, October 16, in Vancouver, BC, and runs through Thursday. The Saylor […]
Tag: Open Education Week
Introducing Saylor Foundation OER to Community Colleges
In celebration of Open Education Week, the Saylor Foundation joined forces with College Open Textbooks to provide a webinar entitled “Introducing Saylor Foundation OER to Community Colleges.” While the webinar took place on Tuesday, March 6th, an archived version of the presentation has been made available. If you’re interested in learning more about how Community […]
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Creative Commons and Community Colleges: 2012 Innovations Conference
Yesterday, I travelled to Philadelphia to take part in the opening day of the Innovations 2012 conference. This conference, a yearly event organized by the League for Innovation in the Community College, is a “premier event for community college professionals dedicated to improving organizational and individual teaching and learning.” This year, the event is organized […]
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Open Education Week: Kicking off on Sunday!
Back in November, I blogged about the first annual Open Education awareness week, set to run from March 5 – 10, 2012. I feel as though I’ve blinked my eyes, and it is upon us already! That’s right, Open Education Week is next week, kicking off on Sunday with a reception at the 2012 Innovations […]
Annual Open Education Awareness Week Announced!
Open Education will no longer be a foreign term to the masses, thanks to the new annual Open Education Week announced at the 2011 Open Education Conference by Mary Lou Forward, Executive Director of the OpenCourseWare (OCW) Consortium. Here’s what Mary Lou had to say about the new event: “The vision of the OER movement […]
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