TU Delft will host the OCW Consortium Board of Directors meeting on October 7th and 8th. The meeting will be followed by an OCW Seminar in which Mary Lou Forward, Executive Director of the Consortium will present as the key note speaker. All the experiences and expertise from TU Delft’s much renowned OCW project will be shared for anyone interested in starting an OCW project in this seminar. The following is the information you can find on the website of TU Delft OCW.
• What? OCW Seminar
• When? Friday October 9th 2009
• Why should I participate? View the Program overview
• Where? Aula Congres Centre, Mekelweg 5, 2628 CD Delft
• Cost? It’s free
• I want to participate. Sign up
For more information, visit http://ocw.tudelft.nl/ocw-seminar or email ocw@tudelft.nl. Don’t miss the opportunity to hear about successfully launching an OCW project and to network with many who are interested in the movement.
Monthly Archive for September, 2009
Registration is now open for “Publishing Open Course Curricula: What It’s All About and Why It Matters”. Eileen McMahon of the University of Massachusetts - Boston and Robbin Smith of Tufts University are the organizers to this event. Please do spread the word around, everyone!
DATE: October 22, 2009
TIME: 9:00 - 3:00 (Coffee and Registration start at 8:00)
PRICE: NERCOMP Members: $125, Non-Members: $250 Your fee includes unlimited am and pm break service and lunch.
LOCATION: Four Points Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center Norwood, MA.
DESCRIPTION:
What began as a faculty-led response at MIT to the emerging eLearning industry in 2002, has grown into a world-wide movement with hundreds of universities sharing course curricula on open websites and an approach to sharing course curricula which is being encouraged by the White House. At this meeting you will learn how the opencourseware movement got started, how it has evolved since, why it has world-wide appeal, and why the current administration is supporting this movement. You will also discover best practices for third party content, licensing considerations, how to publish courses with rich media, why faculty are contributing as well as the challenges and benefits of publishing open course curricula from experienced experts. The meeting will close with an opportunity to join one of several moderated round tables discussions focusing on key topic raised during the presentations.
For a full schedule and registration information, please click here.
The September OCWC webinar is on collaborating with students to generate OCW materials. Many appreciate and value OCW material because it is a production of those who possess the highest form of knowledge in their own respective fields. There are many world renowned scholars who have opened their courses to the public, and they are an inspiration for numerous reasons. While acknowledging their contribution, we must pay close attention to the student collaboration initiative. Students also have good knowledge of their discipline, and for them to collaborate with faculty to produce OCW material gives them a stake in their own learning, and this is significant for various reasons. Instructional specialists stress that a student making a course portfolio via frequent communication with a faculty member enhances learning on the student’s part. OCW project managers stress the cost efficiency involved in producing OCW contents. For my money, it is a great investment for the future. It is always a great investment when we encourage our students to partake in a meaningful activity, think about intellectual property in digital contents, and just get them ready to lead the initiative on OpenCourseWare. Who knows? In a couple years, one of these students could become a faculty member who takes the lead in opening up education.
This month’s speaker is Garin Fons from the University of Michigan. UM’s dScribe team collaborates with graduate students to produce contents for their Open Michigan project. An active member of OCWC, the dScribe team has offered to open OERca, its platform for collaboration to the OCWC community. Come to the webinar to hear about the processes and the system of dScribe. The webinar is on September 3rd at 10AM EDST(GMT-5). You may sign up by emailing meena@ocwconsortium.org.
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