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OCWC Newsletter January 2010

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OCWC Newsletter January 2010

OCWC Newsletter January 2010


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New Newsletter for the New Year!
The OpenCourseWare Consortium is launching a new format for our newsletters to give more information on events and issues of interest to the OCW community. Each month we will send out “Events and Updates”, which will list OCW-related events and short updates on issues or projects. Each quarter we’ll put together an in-depth newsletter focused on a single issue.

If you have an update to share, or your institution is sponsoring an event that would be of interest to Consortium members, please send a 2-4 sentence description and link to: newsletter@ocwconsortium.org. We also welcome your suggestions of themes for the quarterly newsletters.

We will continue to translate both the monthly updates and quarterly newsletters into multiple languages. If you are able to help us with translations into additional languages, please let us know!

OCWC Website Survey
We are in the process of redesigning the OCWC website, and we need your input! Please let us know about your experiences with the website and what you would like to see for the future. Click on the survey links below. It is our goal to make a website that best serves our members and users. The survey will take about five minutes to complete. The links will be open until January 31st.

Chinese http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/69HTW6W
English http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BGH3WMZ
Korean http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8FW2BGP
Spanish http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Z8LGMGV

OCWC Global 2010
Call for Proposals for the OCW Consortium’s annual conference is now open! This year’s theme is Educational Policy and OpenCourseWare. We are accepting proposals in English, Spanish, Chinese and Vietnamese, and we will provide translators for presentations made in these languages. Registration for OCWC Global will begin February 1, 2010. Please visit our conference site at http://conference.ocwconsortium.org

Monthly OCWC Webinar
Our next webinar is “Using Moodle for OpenCourseWare” with Jenny Gray. It will be held on February 4th at 10AM EST. Jenny is the lead technical developer of the OpenLearn project at Open University, UK. She is an expert on Moodle customization and will be sharing her experiences and insights. There is no need to register. Just click here and join the webinar. Videos of the monthly webinars are available on http://www.youtube.com/ocwconsortium.

Upcoming Events
* Workshop on Open Educational Resources in South Africa, and the launch of the University of Cape Town’s OpenContent Directory on Friday, 12 February, 2010, sponsored by the University of the Western Cape, the University of Cape Town and the OpenCourseWare Consortium. For more information, please contact igorlesko@ocwconsortium.org
* The Fifth International Conference of MIT Learning International Networks Consortium (LINC), May 23-26, 2010, University Leadership: Bringing Technology-Enabled Education to Learners of All Ages. http://linc.mit.edu/linc2010/

New Members

Institutional members:
AGH University of Science and Technology (Poland)
Gunadarma University (Indonesia)
Hallym University (Korea)
Pontificia Univresidad Catolica De Valparaiso (Chile)
Silla University (Korea)
South East European University (Macedonia)
Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina (Brazil)
Universitat de Lleida (Spain)

Affiliate members:
International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research (U.S.A)
Russian OCW (Russia)
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (U.S.A.)

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BOLETÍN OCWC ENERO 2010

Boletín para el año nuevo!

El OpenCourseWareConsortium está lanzando un nuevo formato para nuestros boletines mensuales con el objetivo de brindar mayor información sobre eventos y temas de interés para la comunidad OCWC. Enviaremos mensualmente un nuevo apartado de “Eventos y actualizaciones” en el que se mencionarán los eventos y actualizaciones con relación a temas y proyectos del OCWC. Cada trimestre publicaremos un boletín a fondo referente a un tema en específico.

Si cuenta con alguna actualización que quisiera compartirnos, o su institución está patrocinando un evento que puede ser de interés para los miembros del Conosrcio, por favor envíe una breve (2-4 oraciones) descripción del evento a: newsletter@ocwconsortium.org; también agradeceremos las sugerencias de temas para las publicaciones trimestrales.

Seguiremos traduciendo tanto las actualizaciones mensuales como los boletines trimestrales en diversos idiomas. Si usted es capaz de ayudarnos con las traducciones de otros idiomas, por favor háganoslo saber!

Encuesta del sitio web del OCWC

Estamos en el proceso de rediseño de la página OCWC, y sus comentarios nos serán de gran utilidad! Nos gustaría compartiera con nosotros las experiencias que ha tenido con el sitio web y qué le gustaría encontrar en ella en un futuro. Nuestra meta es hacer un sitio web que brinde mejor servicio a nuestros miembros y usuarios. La encuesta le tomará no más de cinco minutos en contestar y se mantendrá abierta hasta el 31 de enero. De clic en la liga del idioma de su preferencia para participar:

Chino http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/69HTW6W
Ingles http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BGH3WMZ
Koreano http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8FW2BGP
Español http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Z8LGMGV

OCWC Global 2010

La convocatoria de propuestas para la Conferencia Anual del OCWC se encuentra ahora abierta! El tema de este año es la Política Educativa y OpenCourseWare. Estamos aceptando propuestas en Inglés, Español, Chino y Vietnamita, y proporcionaremos traductores para el desarrollo de presentaciones en estos idiomas. El registro para participar en el OCWC Global 2010 comenzará el 01 de febrero de 2010. Por favor visite nuestro sitio de Conferencias en: http://conference.ocwconsortium.org

Webinario Mensual OCWC

Nuestro próximo webinario cubrirá el tema de “Utilización de Moodle para OpenCourseWare” con Jennifer Gray. Se llevará a cabo el 04 de febrero a las 10AM EST (tiempo del Este). Jenny es la desarrolladora técnica principal del proyecto OpenLearn en Open University, Reino Unido. Ella es una experta en la personalización de Moodle y va a compartir sus experiencias y puntos de vista. No hay necesidad de registrarse, simplemente de clic en la siguiente liga y únase al webinario. http://www.youtube.com/ocwconsortium. Los vídeos de los webinarios mensuales están disponibles en la misma liga.

Próximos Eventos

* Taller sobre Recursos Educativos Abiertos (REA) en Sudáfrica, y el lanzamiento del OpenContent de la Universidad de Cape Town. El cual tendrá verificativo el próximo viernes, 12 de febrero de 2010. Evento patrocinado por la Universidad del Western Cape, la Universidad de Cape Town y el OCWConsortium. Para mayores informes, contactar a Igor Lesko en: igorlesko@ocwconsortium.org
* La Quinta Conferencia Internacional de Aprendizaje del MIT, Learning International Networks Consortium (LINC). Se llevará a cabo del 23-26 de mayo de 2010. Universidad de Liderazgo: Llevar la educación basada en tecnología a estudiantes de todas las edades. http://linc.mit.edu/linc2010/

Nuevos Miembros

Miembros Institucionales:
AGH University of Science and Technology (Poland)
Gunadarma University (Indonesia)
Hallym University (Korea)
Pontificia Univresidad Catolica De Valparaiso (Chile)
Silla University (Korea)
South East European University (Macedonia)
Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina (Brazil)
Universitat de Lleida (Spain)

Miembros Filiales:
International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research (U.S.A)
Russian OCW (Russia)
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (U.S.A.)

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新年新气象！
开放课程协会（the OpenCourseWare Consortium）将以新的邮件样式，给协会成员递送更多相关资讯和活动介绍。每月，我们都将寄送“活动介绍和最新滚动讯息”，内容是开放课程协会相关的各种活动，以及针对具体项目或事件的最新消息。每个季度，我们还将某个事件的深度资讯整编成册。
如果您愿分享信息，或是贵方有意成为协会成员、举办活动，请稍做介绍并寄送以下电子邮件信箱newsletter@ocwconsortium.org。另外，我们欢迎各种建议，为每个季度的邮件提供内容或是主题。
我们将一如既往地翻译每个月、每个季度的邮件成多种语言。如果您愿意帮助提供其他语种翻译，请和我们联系，联系的电子邮箱是meena@ocwconsortium.org。

网站调查
目前我们正在重新设计开放课程网站的布局，同时需要您的建议！如果您有时间，不妨谈谈您对当前网站的使用感受，或是聊聊您对网站的期望。再请您点击以下链接，做个简短调查吧？！调查大约需要5分钟，我们相信您的支持能让协会网站更好地服务协会成员和其他用户。请在1月31日前完成调查，谢谢！
中文版 http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/69HTW6W
英文版 http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BGH3WMZ
韩文版 http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8FW2BGP
西班牙语版 http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Z8LGMGV

开放课程协会全球会议2010
开放课程协会年度会议开始活动征集了！今年的主题是“教育策略和开放课程”（Educational Policy and OpenCourseWare）。我们将接受中文、英文、西班牙语或越南语的活动建议，并且我们将为与会者提供这些语种的翻译。开放课程协会全球会议的注册，将在2010年2月1日开始。届时，恭请访问会议网站 http://conference.ocwconsortium.org。

每月的开放课程协会网路会议
我们的下个网路会议内容是Jenny Gray的“开放课程中Moodle工具的使用”（“Using Moodle for OpenCourseWare”）。会议将在美国东部时间2月4日上午10点（北京时间2月4日下午11点）开始。Jenny是英国开放大学（Open University, UK）的开发学习项目（OpenLearn project）中的技术开发主管。她是Moodle工具定制的专家，而且也愿意分享她的经验和观点。会议无需注册，点击会议链接，即可参与。每月的网络会议视频发布在 http://www.youtube.com/ocwconsortium。


即将举行的活动
南非开放教学资源（Open Educational Resources）的专题活动小组。南非开普敦大学（the University of Cape Town）开放内容目录项目（OpenContent Directory）将于2010年2月12日星期五发布。活动得到西开普大学、开普敦大学和开放课程协会的支持。如欲了解更多讯息，请联系igorlesko@ocwconsortium.org。
2010年5月23日至26日， “大学领导力：为各个年龄段的学生提供高技术含量的教育”，第五届麻省理工学院国际学习网络协会（MIT Learning International Networks Consortium (LINC)）举办。网址：http://linc.mit.edu/linc2010/

开放课程协会新成员

协会成员有：
AGH科技大学（波兰）AGH University of Science and Technology (Poland)
古纳德尔玛大学（印度尼西亚）Gunadarma University (Indonesia)
翰林大学（韩国）Hallym University (Korea)
瓦尔帕莱索天主教大学(智利)Pontificia Univresidad Catolica De Valparaiso (Chile)
新罗大学（韩国）Silla University (Korea)
东南欧洲大学（马其顿）South East European University (Macedonia)
圣卡塔琳娜南大學（巴西）Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina (Brazil)
莱里达大学（西班牙）Universitat de Lleida (Spain)

附属成员：
国际癌症治疗与研究协会（美国）International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research (U.S.A)
俄罗斯开放课程（俄罗斯）Russian OCW (Russia)
华盛顿州社区和技术学院的教育委员会(美国) Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (U.S.A.)

OCWC Webinar Jan. 2010: What, Why and How of Metadata

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The monthly OCWC Webinar this month is on metadata. Clay Whipkey, the Technical Director of OCWC, will speak about why we should care about metadata and what we should do with it. This webinar is intended for all administrators of OCW and individuals who are not too technically savvy but would like to hear about metadata in plain English. If you have an advanced technical understanding of things, you can still join in on the conversation after Clay’s presentation. Bring your expertise if you would like to talk about the whys, the whats, and the hows of metadata.

The webinar is usually held on the first Thursday of the month, but we will hold it on the second Thursday this month on the 14th. You can join the webinar at http://breezemeeting.asu.edu/ocwc. The webinar starts at 10AM EST, but the meeting room will be open from the day prior to the meeting. If you need to check your technical specifications, you can come into the meeting room before the scheduled time and check make sure that you can view the browser window properly. See you all then.

The OCWC Webinar Series

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If you are new to the community or if you are contemplating starting an OCW project within your organization and want to learn more about it, attend our Webinar! If you are an experienced OCW project manager, then participate in the discussion and share your insight with the rest of us. Each month, we have an expert in various fields of OER projects giving a 20-minute-talk. We will follow with an informal discussion on the subject. We hope that sharing the expertise and facilitating more discussion within the community will strengthen our projects and activities.
The schedule for webinars is as follows:

8/6     The New eduCommons (Tom Caswell, OCWC)
Sept.  Student generated contents in OCW (Garin Fons, University of Michigan)
Oct.    Activities of Opencast (Mara Hancock, UC Berkeley)
Nov.   Issues in Intellectual Property (Terri Bays, OCWC)

All webinars are held at 10AM (GMT-5). Please register at www.ocwconsortium.org. Please hurry as positions are limited. Hope to see you there!

eduCommons 3.2.1-RC1 Released

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We are pleased to announce the first eduCommons 3.2.1 Release Candidate, now available as a Windows download. This version contains many innovative features, including the following:

•    eduCommons can now import from IMS Common Cartridge, IMS Content Package, MIT course downloads, Blackboard IMS, WebCT Vista, WebCT 6.1/7.0, and Moodle Backups
•    eduCommons can now export to IMS Common Cartridge, IMS Content Package, and IMS Package for Moodle
•    WordPress exports for eduCommons content
•    Publish eduCommons site to static HTML
•    Additional RSS added to view most recent items
•    Support added for additional metadata in rdf/rss views as well as OAI/pmh

We would love to get feedback from the rest of the OpenCourseWare community, and we extend a special invitation to all those interested in joining in testing and localization efforts for this project. Please report bugs and other feedback directly to Tom Caswell, eduCommons Project Manager.

If you are interested in translating eduCommons into your language, please contact Tom Caswell at caswell [dot] tom [at] educommons [dot] com. A final version of eduCommons will be available soon as a production-ready release

NOTE: We just updated an issue with eduCommons installers on SourceForge. Everything should be working now. http://educommons.com/downloads/educommons/releases/3.2.1

Yes, it’s another new staff person!

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Today we’re welcoming Rana Banerjee to the OCWC team. Rana will be consulting with us regarding the development of better membership support processes. Back in the old days (as long as a year or two ago) membership support was something we could handle informally, with a call or email in the course of handling other OCWC business. As the consortium has grown however, and new members come on board at an increasingly rapid pace, we have to be more deliberate in our proceedings. Rana will be helping us out with that over the next three months, in preparation for our hiring a more permanent staff person in September.

Rana comes to us from MIT OCW, where he’s worked since March, 2006 on the Highights for High School project, a resource for high school math and science which includes both MIT OCW materials modified for the high school audience as well as presenting content created by MIT
students and outreach programs. In addition to having primary responsibility for the acquisition and publication of Highlights site content, Rana has worked extensively in the area of usability, conducting interviews and focus groups of over 200 teachers, students, administrators and policy makers in order to help the site meet the needs of secondary STEM education.

Doris Rojas of the Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, Lima-Peru Appointed to OCWC Board

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The OCWC Board of Directors has recently appointed Doris Rojas of the Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, Lima-Peru to fill the vacancy left by Meena Hwang’s resignation from the Board. Doris Rojas is an Industrial Engineer with 24 years of professional experience in business consulting, working on topics such as Strategic Planning, Redesign of Processes, Informatic Projects, and Human Resources. Currently, she serves as the director of the Center for Information and Communication Technologies at the Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, where she has taught courses such as Planning and Strategic Direction, Organization Projects and Methods, Human Resources Management, and Redesign of Processes. I am pleased to report Prof. Rojas’ acceptance of this appointment, which will last until next May’s annual election, when the OCWC membership will elect a director to complete the term.

Meena Hwang resigned her position on the OCWC Board of Directors last month, subsequent to resigning fro her position at Korea University. An OCWC Director is required to be an officer, director, trustee or employee of an OCWC member organization. Directors officially resign upon ceasing to be related to the members with which they were affiliated at the time of their election.

Meena Hwang Joins OCWC Staff as Interim Director of Community Outreach

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Terri Bays
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We are very excited to have Meena Hwang join the OCWC staff as our Interim Director of Community Outreach. Having formerly initiated and orchestrated not only the Korea University Open Course Ware project, but also the Korea OCW Consortium, Meena brings considerable experience and enthusiasm to the OCWC staff. She will be directing the outreach efforts of the OCWC over the next six months, taking over from the much-missed Mike Caulfield. We are grateful to Meena for stepping in at this juncture so that our new Executive Director may settle in before running a formal search for the DCO position.

Many of you are already familiar with Meena from her work with KU OCW and KOCW. In addition to those responsibilities, Meena served on the OCWC Board of Directors from its inception in 2008 until her resignation from Korea University this past month. From her position on the OCWC staff, Meena will be able to extend many of the valuable projects she started in Korea, particularly the OCW Student Movement. I know that you will want to join me in saying how delighted we are with this opportunity to continue our collaboration with Meena.

Kaplan Higher Education Joins the OCWC

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kaplan Higher Education today announced that it has joined the OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCWC), making select Kaplan University courses and teaching materials available for free online. Through a new website, lifelong learners, students and faculty across the world can access select Kaplan University courses anywhere Internet access is available. Courses currently offered include Academic Strategies for the Business Professional, Nursing Fundamentals and Forensic Biology and Impression Evidence. Continue reading ‘Kaplan Higher Education Joins the OCWC’

Proposed Amendments to Bylaws

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Dear Colleagues,

As required in Article X of the OCWC Bylaws, last Friday I posted 30-days notice of seven measures calling for amendments to those bylaws. The certified voting representative for each OCWC Member will have the opportunity to vote by proxy on these measures between April 16, 2009 and April 21, 2009.

To download the Proposed Amendments to the OCWC Bylaws arranged on a measure-by-measure basis, please visit:

http://www.ocwconsortium.org/docman/2009-bylaws-amendments-measure-by-measure/download.html

To download the Proposed Amendments to the OCWC Bylaws in their entirety, please visit:

http://www.ocwconsortium.org/docman/2009-bylaws-amendments-entire/download.html

Please fee free to contact me at tbays@ocwconsortium.org if you have any questions about individual amendments or this process in general.

Best wishes,

Terri

A New Community Announcement List

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Clay Whipkey
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As part of the refined focus of the OCWC, we want to help enable connections and communication between members.  As a step towards that focus, we have created a new email list which will allow members to post announcements to the rest of the membership.  The list is named community [at] ocwconsortium [dot] org. Continue reading ‘A New Community Announcement List’