Recently the OCWC Board of Directors met in Cambridge, MA for our 2nd board meeting (photo below - courtesy of Philipp Schmidt).
More on the outcome soon!!!
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OCW Community,
I am VERY pleased to announce the opening of a new full time position within the OCWC — the OCWC Director of Marketing and Outreach (listed below). If any of you are interested in this position — or know of a strong candidate — please contact me immediately. We are looking to fill this position within the next 4 weeks.
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The OCWC Director of Marketing and Outreach, in close consultation with the OCWC Director and the OCWC Board of Directors, is generally responsible for the oversight and execution of marketing, public relations and outreach activities within the Consortium. The principal responsibilities of the OpenCourseWare Consortium Director of Marketing and Outreach are: Continue reading ‘OCWC Now Hiring: Director of Marketing and Outreach’
For those interested, CMU is offering some summer workshops on their OLI approach to OCW.
Check it out if you are interested.
OCWC Members,
As part of the OCWC incorporation process — it is important that we now formalize the various OCWC working committees, and begin to staff them with volunteers. Committee work (I might mention) is the only material cost of OCWC membership at this point — so we are hopeful that many of you will be willing/able to volunteer some of your time and talents to help make the OCWC successful. Continue reading ‘Seeking OCWC Committee Volunteers’
Anyone familiar in some small part with what has been happening with the University of Michigan’s Open Educational Resources initiative will already know we have had a number of great developments over the last few months. We’ve had student dScribes from the School of Information participate in a pilot program to help gather, vet, and clear content for publication and we’ve made significant progress on the development of the software tools we’ll use to manage the process of clearing course content.
But what we’re most excited about now is the emergence of what we’re calling … Open.Michigan
Open.Michigan is more than an Open educational Resources site. It represents the diverse collection of Open initiatives on campus - from open access publishing and open archives to open source software and open standards. The site provides greater visibility to the various projects and attempts to expand the dialogue between campus participants and external collaborators.
We also hope to build upon the Open Community’s strong participatory culture, inviting people to explore the Open.Michigan website, subscribing, authoring, and commenting on our blog, taking a look at our wiki, and following updates on our Twitter (open_michgan) and joining our new facebook group, Open.Michigan.
We’re excited about this transition and look forward to your feedback and participation as Open.Michigan continues to evolve and expand.
We got some worthwhile work done during the technology track of the OCWC conference in Dalian, China.
- We tested site metrics tools for OCWC use, including Google Analytics. This is still in the testing phase.
- We wrote a technology survey to establish a technical contact for each institution and to find out what types of software members are using to create and publish OCW content. This is almost done, and Clay has agrrd to send it out (I think).
- We wrote a Google Doc that compares eduCommons, core Moodle, and OU-UK Moodle. This is intended to help better inform OCW software decisions by newcomers.
More info and notes are available here: http://wiki.ocwconsortium.org/index.php?title=Software
This is a few years old, but worth linking to. It’s basically a case study of the production of OpenCourseWare — written by the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Also, here’s a link to Johns Hopkins’ OCW site. It’s one of our finest.
For OCW fans and institutions out there, enjoy!
I had a wonderful visit to Capilano College last week in Vancouver, Canada. Last week they launched their new OCW site — which is wonderful (you can read about it here and here). For a quick glance, check out this Archaeology course — which is really cool.
Let us extend a big, hearty congratulations to Cap College OCW!
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