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Open Educational Resources Newsletter
Winter 2007
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This is the second issue of the OER Newsletter. Over the past months we have traveled to Beijing, Hanoi and Delhi. In each place we found significant energy about the potential for Open Educational Resources. In this issue we provide some recent news about OER and describe our October 2006 grantee awards. | |
Hewlett Grantees Honored as Tech Award Laureates |
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The Tech Museum Awards announced two Hewlett Foundation OER grantees as 2006 Tech Award Laureates -- Internet Archive and Rice University Connexions. Internet Archive was the overall winner in the Education category for harnessing technology to save digital knowledge now and for future generations. Last year MIT OCW was the winner of the overall education award. Previously our grantee Equal Access was the winner. This makes four total Hewlett grantee winners of the Laureate Awards in the Education categories over the past years. Read More... |
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OER Commons: Bringing open learning to everyone | | |
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Just released in beta, OER Commons is a content aggregation network for the use and reuse of Open Educational Resources, produced by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), and supported by the Hewlett Foundation.
With metadata and pointers gathered from OER items worldwide, the site builds a knowledge base across institutions with features including: user tagging, rating, reviewing, and annotating OER, as well as providing forums for discussion and exploration on emerging topics related to OER issues. Read More... |
China Hosts 2006 CORE Conference |
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The Open Education Conference 2006, sponsored and organized by CORE, MIT OCW, and the Hewlett Foundation, was held on 6-8 September 2006 in Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
One hundred participants attended the conference and 24 speakers gave presentations on their OER initiatives, including 9 speakers from US, one from Japan, and 14 from CORE's Lead and Member Universities in China.
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Conference Explores Open Content and Public Broadcasting
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The WGBH Educational Foundation hosted a conference on “Open Content and Public Broadcasting” in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 19-21 September 2006.
With support from the Hewlett Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, WGBH brought together over 100 participants to explore issues related to producing and distributing open access content across multiple public broadcasting platforms. Read More...
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