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It’s great to see open education getting press. (More will be coming next week!) At the recent MIT OCW Milestone Event the movement got a lot of praise from Tom Friedman of Flat World fame. Catch the video of Friedman’s keynote talk on OCW over at YouTube.
Many iterating toward openness readers know about COSL’s Microlibrary project. The Microlibrary has received funding from the AT&T Foundation, the Qwest Foundation, and the OpenContent Foundation, but we hit a new milestone this past week when we received a donation from a business (not a foundation) reaching out to the community. ThePlanCollection.com is a local … Read more
COSL’s Seth Gurrell is blogging our new OER Handbook project. The project goal is to provide a free online resource (and low-cost printed resource for offline use) that provides an introduction to the OER world and helps people learn how to participate. We’ll be starting with materials from Wikieducator, OLCOS, our recent OER Interoperability meeting, … Read more