OpenEd & OER
Why some universities vote against MOOCs
UPDATE: May 7, 2013: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad MOOC? | Faculty Backlash Grows San Jose State University has been at the front line of experimenting with MOOC models in its search for[…]
Brussels Welcomed Launch of First Pan-European MOOCs Initiative
Partners in 11 countries have joined forces to launch the first pan-European ‘MOOCs’ (Massive Open Online Courses) initiative, with the support of the European Commission. Around 40 courses, covering a wide variety of subjects, will[…]
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Beta Launched
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is an ambitious project with the aim to bring together and make freely available to the world the incredibly rich resources from America’s libraries, archives and museums. The[…]
American Colleges Face a New Shake-Up: Competency-Based System
The President’s State of the Union address on Feb.12, 2013 made a strong call for workforce tailored higher education reform in the areas of cost and access. This reform would imply extensive changes to the[…]
MOOC plot thickens: Three’s Company
Stanford University is teaming up with edX to work together to develop edX’s software platform, which will soon be freely available to developers across the world (a key part of its software is already freely[…]
Contest “The MOOC Production Fellowship”
For faculty who might be inspired by opportunities offered by MOOCs but do not have resources to try their ideas out: Essen and Berlin, Germany, 11 March 2013 – Stifterverband (www.stifterverband.info), one of Germany’s leading[…]
Launching our MOOCs Observatory
Like many of our readers, we have been following the phenomenon of Massive Open Online Courses since 2008, when it was in its incipient phase and did not have this buzz and fame around its[…]
Academic publishing in search of new viable models
Impacted by financial crisis of the university system in general and by downturn in academic publishing in particular, academic presses are forced to look for new economic models that would not depend on the number[…]
MERLOT-JOLT Special Issue: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
MERLOT has approved the Call for Papers for the JOLT (Journal of Online Learning and Teaching) special issue on MOOCs. Call for Papers – Special Issue Proposal Submission Deadline: November 15, 2012 Full Paper Submission[…]
Education Portal People’s Choice Awards: the Best in Free Online Education
Information via: education-portal.com Education Portal has announced the nominees for its education and e-learning 2012 People’s Choice Awards. All of the nominees, divided in ten diferent categories, are well-known for offering free educational resources online, making[…]