Blogging the OpenCourseWare (and OER) Movements
Thomas Friedman, author and columnist for the New York Times, gave the keynote presentation at MIT’s recent event in celebration of reaching 1800 published OCW courses. The speech was insightful and timely, but also very well-delivered.
Its up on YouTube for your enjoyment. I highly recommend it.
Check out MIT’s slick new site for OCW video!!!
Kudos to MIT.
At the conference yesterday, Youtube discussed a new category for “Howto and DIY (Do it yourself)”, that in their minds, might be a good place for OCW and OER-related materials to reside.
Here’s just one example in this nascent category. Let me know if you can find better examples.
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hare my presentation from the “Video, Education and Open Content” Conference generously hosted by the Columbia University, and sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett foundation OER initiative.
This has been a fun conference, and thanks to all of those who inspired my presentation. 
Case Western University seems to be really pushing the envelope for open video with a project called Case TV.
Check it out, and give them some positive feedback if you like what they’re doing.
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