Posts Tagged ‘Open Course Ware’

Groups Team Up to Turn Free Online Courses Into Cheap College Credit

The Saylor Foundation has been building an online catalog of free, self-paced college courses since 2010. But students who completed… More »

Harvard and MIT Put $60-Million Into New Platform for Free Online Courses

The group of elite universities offering free online courses just got bigger. Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology… More »

MITx: What the students think

What’s it like taking a course with 120,000 other students? That is one of the questions raised this spring by… More »

Download Special Edition– Opening Learning Horizons: Discovering the Potential of Co-Creation, Games and Open Learning

eLearning Papers is an initiative of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Education and Culture. Its aim is to promote the… More »

Disruptive innovation — in education

For Anant Agarwal, MITx, the Institute’s new online-learning initiative, isn’t just a means of democratizing education. It’s a way to… More »

The MITx Factor

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology ended 2011 with a grand announcement: It would broadcast massive, open online courses — equal… More »

Groups expand access to open educational resources

As educators push for more and better access to open educational resources (OER), or content that is available free of… More »

Panel Ponders Future of Open-Education Resources

Washington – Open-education efforts like the free lecture materials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and producing free online textbooks… More »

Massive Courses, Sans Stanford

For students looking to learn skills and land jobs, might the good word of a highly regarded instructor count as… More »

Canadian Faculty Union Warns That Student Postings of Lectures Could Violate Copyright Law

The faculty union at the University of Manitoba, in Canada, sent an e-mail message to its members this month alerting… More »