Tag Archive for 'ocw'

OCWC Newsletter January 2010

Published
by
Meena Hwang
on January 24, 2010
in ocwc and opencourseware
. 0 Comments

OCWC Newsletter January 2010

OCWC Newsletter January 2010


* Scroll down for translations

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.)

=====================================================================

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.)

==================================================

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.)

Barcamp Loja 2009

Published
by
Meena Hwang
on December 1, 2009
in conferences
. 1 Comment

Barcamp Loja 2009 was held on the 28th of November at the Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loxa in Ecuador. The conference was built around the theme of technology and its impact on society, education, and business. Tom Caswell, the Strategic Outreach Manager of the OpenCourseWare Consortium spoke about OER and OCW. You can view the presentation with simultaneous Spanish interpretation below.

Edmundo Tovar from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid also represented the Consoritum and spoke about OCW at this event. Edmundo serves as a Board member of the OpenCourseWare Consortium and is intimately involved with activities at Universia, a consortium of Spanish speaking universities in OCW. And of course, the presentationis in fluent Spanish.

Thank you, Tom and Edmundo for the wonderful presentations!

OCWC Newsletter November 2009

Published
by
Meena Hwang
on November 24, 2009
in opencourseware
. 1 Comment

OCWC Global 2010: Educational Policy and OCW
The 2010 Annual OCWC Global Meeting will take place in Hanoi, Vietnam. Vietnam OCW has presented itself as a unique government-run initiative and is having a great impact on education in Vietnam. The conference website will be ready in early December at http://conference.ocwconsortium.org. Discussions at the conference will be built around the theme of Educational Policy and OCW. Details on participation and presentation proposals will be provided on the conference website.

More Collaboration, bigger impact
We are all about openness and sharing, and what better way is there than to collaborate with more people? Mary Lou Forward, the Executive Director of OCWC met with Jay Yoon, the project lead for Creative Commons Korea on November 7th to discuss how each party can collaborate further and contribute to opening up education. University students were also invited to the discussion; it was a chance for them to learn about what they can do to share knowledge. OCWC is already involved with bringing Creative Commons into Vietnam, and this type of collaboration promises to open doors for more activities and impact at different levels.

OCWC November Webinar
The University of California, Irvine has implemented a “hub-and-spoke” system of OCW distribution. Search engine optimization is partially accomplished through a network of Web sites that link back to the original OCW course hosted at UC Irvine. In this webinar, Larry Cooperman, Director of UC Irvine’s OpenCourseWare project will describe this architecture and some surprising results in terms of visibility. The webinar will also briefly review UC Irvine’s model for OCW sustainability.

The webinar will be held on December 3rd at 10AM EST. If you are interested in participating, please email your name and affiliation to feeback@ocwconsortium.org, and you will be given instruction on how to participate. The webinar is open to anyone interested in OpenCourseWare.

Bits and Pieces
Membership status re-declaration
A couple weeks ago, the main contact for each institution received an email asking to re-declare the status of the membership. If you have not done so yet, please go to http://www.ocwconsortium.org/categoryselect.
The 1st Asia Regional OCW Conference
From the 4th to 7th was the first Asia OCW conference. It was held at Korea University in Seoul, Korea. Speakers from Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, China, the United States and Korea spoke about current issues in OCW.
Translations of the newsletter
The November issue of the OCWC Newsletter was translated by members of the community who volunteered their valuable time: ZhuJia Cheng, Sunhee Hwang, Nguyen Que, Damian Martin Ferreira, and Ilya Gelfenbeyn. Thank you!

Upcoming Webinars

Published
by
Meena Hwang
on November 23, 2009
in opencourseware
. 1 Comment

The next OCWC webinar will be held on December 3rd at 10AM EST. We have Larry Cooperman, Director of the University of California, Irvine OpenCourseWare project, giving a talk on how to increase visibility of an OCW project. The UC Irvine has implemented a “hub-and-spoke” system of OCW distribution. Search engine optimization is partially accomplished through a network of Web sites that link back to the original OCW course hosted at UC Irvine. In this webinar, Larry Cooperman, Director of UC Irvine’s OpenCourseWare project will describe this architecture and some surprising results in terms of visibility. The webinar will also briefly review UC Irvine’s model for OCW sustainability.

The January webinar will be on metadata by Clay Whipkey of the OCWC, followed by a webinar on Moodle, given by Jenny Gray of Open University, UK. The OCWC webinars are held on the first Thursday of each month. If you are interested in participating in the webinar, please email your name and affiliation to feedback@ocwconsortium.org.

Mara Hancock’s talk on Opencast

Published
by
Meena Hwang
on October 1, 2009
in opencourseware
. 3 Comments

Mara Hancock, the Director of Educational Technologies at UC Berkeley and the lead of Opencast Matterhorn project gave a talk today on the project. It can be viewed at http://rec1.dimdim.com/view/dimdim/a53ed8ca-ffe2-102c-9515-003048642bd7.  You can also go to www.youtube.com/ocwconsortium for more videos on OCWC related topics.

OCWC Webinar, Oct. 2009

OCWC Webinar, Oct. 2009

OCW Seminar at TU Delft

Published
by
Meena Hwang
on September 26, 2009
in opencourseware
. 0 Comments

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.

Workshop: “Publishing Open Course Curricula: What It Is All About and Why It Matters”

Published
by
Meena Hwang
on September 24, 2009
in opencourseware
. 1 Comment

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.

OCWC webinar: Student-generated OCW contents

Published
by
Meena Hwang
on September 1, 2009
in opencourseware
. 1 Comment

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.

Fraud is in the air

Published
by
Terri Bays
on August 21, 2009
in copyright, intellectual property, online, open and opencourseware
. 1 Comment

As both the hiring and the fall teaching cycles get underway, we’re seeing a rash of articles in the Chronicle about various forms of Academic fraud. Today’s “Strange Tales From the Trenches” by Daniel J. Ennis and Arne R. Flaten (http://bit.ly/8ms1F) follows, for example, last Saturday’s “Should You Discuss Your Work in Progress?” (http://bit.ly/fEUk5) by Gina Barreca. The latter provoked a stream of comments by academics concerned about their research ideas being stolen, and I felt compelled to add a remark about not letting our concern to protect our ideas prevent us from engaging in the types of collaboration that brought so many of us into academics in the first place.

There’s more to be said than simply urging folks not to lose their sense of sharing, however. Those who have published their ideas in OCW know that OCW publication can be a way to stake their claims to ideas or techniques long before they are ready to publish research articles. The digital versions are date-stamped by the hosting server, so, should they actually need to take a case to court, they have tangible evidence of their prior claims. This is where it’s important to remember that OCW publication does not mean relinquishing either copyright or the right to attribution.

Granted, this isn’t enough to prevent someone from pursuing your line of research and drawing more insightful conclusions than yours (ideas cannot be copyrighted). This (as both Barreca and several commentators pointed out) is part and parcel of academic life. It will, however, give you recourse in cases like those described by Ennis and Flaten, where work either simply is used without permission or citation or more egregiously is misrepresented as someone else’s creation. Having your work visible and labeled as your own allows the vigilant to find evidence of fraud when they go looking rather than harbor vague suspicions they have no way of substantiating.

On the brighter side, sharing your nascent ideas with students, with colleagues and with the wider learning community opens you to further opportunities for academic growth. Those potential thieves are also your potential cheerleaders, muses and collaborators. Keeping your ideas to yourself might keep you safe, but it will also keep you isolated.

Talis Incubator for Open Education

Published
by
Meena Hwang
on August 18, 2009
in opencourseware
. 1 Comment

If you are one of those people who believe in the power of individuals to create, participate, and contribute to bring forth change in open education, you may want to take into consideration the Talis Incubator for Open Education. This angel fund is for individuals or small groups with projects that cultivate open education, and the proposal submission deadline for the first round of awards is Dec. 31st, 2009. Grant proposals valued from between £1,000 and £15,000 are being solicited. Proposals may either be about creating OER for others to use, software tools for OER, or datasets on OER. Or you may submit a proposal for research that you will present at a conference and use the funding for expenses. Alternatively, you may submit a proposal on open standards for education. In return, Talis asks the grantee to open the results of projects as open source, which will help forward the cause. If you are a small organization or an individual with big ideas on promoting OER, check out the details at http://blogs.talis.com/education.