It’s Official

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation will be funding the OSLO Research Group’s next two projects. Synopses follow. Open Learning Support (OLS), our partnership with MIT’s OpenCourseWare initiative, will build a social infrastructure around the OCW materials, allowing informal study groups to form and enabling learners to provide and receive peer support while using the OCW materials. EduCommons is our “SourceForge for educational materials” project. We hope that EduCommons will facilitate the development and release of significant new educational materials for years to come, including derivative works based on / localizations of OCW content. ...

October 21, 2003 · David Wiley