OCW Consortium Newsletter_March 2012 by OpenCourseWare Consortium

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5-10 March 2012 marked the first annual Open Education Week, celebrated both online and in live events around the world. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s objective was to raise awareness of the open education movement and to give people a feel for the depth and breadth of open education projects around the world. Over 100 institutions and organizations contributed videos, documents and project tours, and over 100 webinars and live/webcast events took place throughout the week. If you missed any of the activities during Open

Education Week (OEW), make sure to read the OEW Frequently Asked Questions section for an update on where to find relevant information and resources. We would like your input into the planning of next yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s OEW event. Please take a few minutes to give us your feedback at: (http://www.openeducationwee k.org/give-us-feedback/) or send us an email with your suggestions to openeducationwk@gmail.com For interesting projects and upcoming events happening

Inside this Issue: 2 Open Education Week 4 Community Updates 6 Consortium News and Updates

March Newsletter 2012

around world, make sure to read our Community Updates. Finally, with less than 3 weeks to go before our annual conference, make sure to visit our conference website for latest updates: http://conferences.ocwconsortiu m.org/index.php/2012/uk We look forward to welcoming you in Cambridge, UK. Mary Lou Forward

Open Education Week Participation in Open Education Week (OEW) During Open Education Week (March 5-10, 2012), nearly 13,000 people participated in OEW events with 45% coming from the Americas, followed by 33% from Europe, 17% from Asia, 2.6% from Africa and 1.4% from Oceania.

(http://www.youtube.com/play list?list=PL35D8E301FDFA73 43). 2. Where can I find presentation slides from webinars? Some of the presentation slides are already available on Slideshare (http://www.slideshare.net/op eneducationweek/favorites). 3. Where can I find videos from OEW webinars?

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Source: Google Analytics, Open Education Week website (March 5-10, 2012)

Visitors represented more than 140 countries with the highest numbers coming from the United States, Germany, Spain, India, United Kingdom, China, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and Greece respectively. Contributions to OEW During this first OEW, more than 100 institutions and organizations participated, collectively contributing nearly 100 videos about open education projects and more than 100 webinars and live events around the world.

Frequently Asked Questions about OEW events 1. Where can I find videos showcasing open education projects? The videos are available on the OEW website (http://www.openeducationw eek.org/category/projects/) as well as on the OEW dedicated YouTube channel:

Archived videos of webinars that took place during OEW will be available on the OEW website in the upcoming weeks under the respective webinar listing here: http://www.openeducationwe ek.org/webinars/. 4. Where can I find records of discussions that took places during OEW on twitter? Log into your twitter account and search for the following #tag (#openeducationwk) 5. Where can I find information about live events that took place around the world during OEW? Organizers of live events during OEW are now preparing reports about the events. More information will be made available on their respective websites/blogs in the upcoming weeks.

Once the information becomes available, we will alert you in upcoming issues of newsletter. Below is information about some of the live events that took place during OEW. Open Education Week and Live Events Live OEW Event in the Netherlands Delft University of Technology, SURF and Open Universiteit in the Netherlands organized an event for policy makers within Higher Education in Europe.

Live OEW Event in the United Kingdom On March 8, 2012, the Support Centre for Open Resources in Education (SCORE) in association with the Higher Education Academy and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) organized a workshop on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sustaining OER Activityâ&#x20AC;?. The aim of the workshop was to consider how OER and OEP are impacting on Higher Education, why this is beneficial to learners, lecturers and institutions and what can be done to build on the movement. Recordings from the event are available here: http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadi a/preview.php?whichevent=18 93&s=31&ran=1531460653&st ate=1 Live OEW Event in South Africa

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You will find recordings, videos, photos and a full report from the event here: (http://www.opencourseware.e u/OpenEducationEvent2012).

The University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa organized an afternoon-long Western Cape-based panel discussion on Tuesday 6 March involving speakers from UCT, the University of the Western Cape and Stellenbosch University.

UCT also organized various workshops on issues pertaining to open education during the week.

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More information about the events at UCT can be found via the links below: Video of UCT VC Dr Max Price talking about openness http://www.youtube.com/watc h?feature=player_embedded &v=6S-4G5VjhD4 Finding Open Stuff Workshops - http://educationcopyright.org/finding-openstuff-workshops/ Exploring Open in Higher Education Presentation http://www.slideshare.net/laur a_Cz/open-everythingexploring-open-in-highereducation Eve Gray blogpost on open ed event - http://www.grayarea.co.za/2012/03/14/openeverything-open-educationweek-at-uct-blurs-theboundaries/ Flickr Album http://www.flickr.com/photos/ openuct/sets/721576295455 13615/

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Community Updates Survey on OCW/OER please respond As part of the “OpenCourseWare (OCW) in the European Higher Education context” project we are requesting that you share your experiences with using OER/OCW.

The focus of the project is the creation of preconditions for a strong European OCW framework. A stronger framework, we believe, will mean closer cooperation between European institutes, which may result in mutual use of materials, which will enhance quality and increase the use of online courses. We believe this will facilitate virtual student mobility and lead to an increase in real student mobility. Additionally, an improved European/OCW network will improve conditions for Lifelong Learners, an important user group of OCW/OER. This project is carried out with the support of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union.

Please take a few moments to complete this brief survey. All the information that you provide will be confidential and only used for research purposes. Your anonymity will be assured at all times. To complete our survey, click on the link below: https://docs.google.com/spreads heet/viewform?formkey=dFlyNkt LSUJNdlZoSl9nUnAzWVhmaU E6MQ

We would appreciate your response by April 3rd, 2012. We thank you for taking the time to complete this survey. Kindest regards. Edmundo Tovar edmundo@opencourseware.eu Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) Executive Director UPM OCW Office Member, Board of Directors OCW Consortium For more information about the project: "OpenCourseWare in the European HE context: How to make use of its full potential for virtual mobility" please visit: http://www.opencourseware.eu/

OER Policy Registry Greetings Open Colleagues, The open community shares a need for more information to help us with our work. We know, for example, there are many policies supporting open education at institutions and governments throughout the world. Many of us know some of these policies, but it would be extremely helpful if we had a single database of open education policies, from around the world, that the entire community could access and update. To meet this goal, Creative Commons (CC) has received a small grant to create an “OER Policy Registry.” The Open Education Resources (OER) Policy Registry will be a place for policy makers and open advocates to easily share and update OER legislation, OER institutional policies and supporting OER policy resources. We have begun to enter OER policies into the registry, but we need your help to make it a truly useful global resource. The open movement is reaching a stage where we've had some real, concrete OER policy victories and there is the potential to achieve many more. Sharing our collective knowledge of existing OER policies, in the same way we believe in sharing educational

resources, will help advocates and policymakers worldwide be more successful. Will you please: 1. Contribute any OER policies you know about on this form: https://docs.google.com/spre adsheet/viewform?formkey= dE5GSHVONzBBX1lMa1dS ZWR1UmtPOFE6MQ We are collecting both legislative AND institutional (non-legislative) OER policies from around the world. Your form submissions will be added to this draft list of OER policies.

Beginning on May 1, the OER Policy Registry will move to the Creative Commons (CC) Wiki. Anyone will be able to edit the OER Policy Registry on the CC Wiki, and all wiki text will be licensed under CC BY. We're starting with a google form because (a) it's easy and (b) wikis require you to create an account before editing, and that may be a barrier to participation.

2. Review the draft list of OER policies: https://docs.google.com/a/cr eativecommons.org/spreads heet/ccc?key=0Aqx2YcmBjq vbdE5GSHVONzBBX1lMa1 dSZWR1UmtPOFE#gid=0

CC is in contact with other projects that started to collect similar information, including UNESCO, CoL, the Florida Distance Learning Consortium, EU OCW and a project in New Zealand. We will add OER policy data they gather as it becomes available. If anyone knows of other efforts to gather OER policies, please send them to Anna Daniel: anna@creativecommons.org and we will reach out to them too.

If any entries need to be fixed, please email us at oer@creativecommons.org

If you have any suggestions or feedback on the content and/or framework, please let us know.

3. Forward this message to your colleagues, to your lists, blogs, and other channels, to ensure that we get as much input as possible. As the OER movement is global, it is critical that we capture OER policies from around the world.

Warmest regards and thank you!

Everyone can add OER policies to the google form for the next month.

PS: CC Blog post: http://creativecommons.org/web log/entry/32072 Cable Green, PhD Director of Global Learning Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org

Registration is Open for UNESCO World Open Educational Resources Congress In full partnership with the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and through the generous support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, UNESCO is organizing the 2012 World OER Congress, which will take place on 20 – 22 June 2012 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. The aims of the Congress are to: 1. Release the 2012 Paris Declaration. 2. Showcase the world’s best practices in OER policies, initiatives, and experts. 3. Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 2002 UNESCO Forum that coined the term OER. For more information and online registration click here (http://www.unesco.org/new/e n/communication-andinformation/events/calendarof-events/eventswebsites/world-openeducational-resourcescongress/). Why Open Matters video competition Creative Commons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Open Society Institute announce the launch of the Why Open Education Matters Video Competition.

The competition will award cash prizes for the best short videos that explain the use and promise of free, highquality Open Educational Resources—or “OER”—and describe the benefits and opportunities these materials create for teachers, students and schools. Video submissions are accepted until June 5, 2012 and winners will be announced July 18, 2012. More information is here: http://www.ocwconsortium.or g/en/community/blog/2012/0 3/20/why-open-mattersvideo-competition/

Call for Abstracts is Open for EADTU 25th Anniversary Conference 2012 The Open University of Cyprus will be hosting European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU's) Annual Conference in Paphos, on 27-28th September 2012, under the EU Presidency of Cyprus. The Focus of the conference is on: “The role of open and flexible education in European higher education systems for 2020: new models, new markets, new media’’.

For more information click here: http://www.eadtu.eu/activities /conference2012.html Creative Commons Summer Internship 2012 Creative Commons is once again seeking a bright, enthusiastic student to intern at its Mountain View office for ten weeks during this summer. The application deadline is April 9, 2012. For more information click here: http://creativecommons.org/ weblog/entry/32044

Consortium News and Updates Please visit our website for news links and blogs to keep up with what is happening in OER around the world. Better yet, you can like us on Facebook (OCWConsortium) or follow us on Twitter (OCW News) to be updated in real time. If you have something to share email us at: newsletter@ocwconsortium.org or feedback@ocwconsortium.org and let us know! Reminder: Registration for the OCW Consortium 2012 Global Conference With less than 3 weeks and only a few places left, there is still time to register for OCW Consortium 2012 Global Conference. The deadline for registrations is March 31, 2012. Cambridge 2012 will combine OER12 and the OCW Consortium’s Global Conferences. We will meet at the historic Queens College in Cambridge, UK, from 16-18 April 2012. Thus far, more than 200 participants from over 20 countries have registered.

The official twitter #tag for the conference is #ocwcglobal.

Directors. New Board Members will be announced during the global OpenCourseWare Consortium’s annual conference, to be held this year April 16-18 in Cambridge, UK.

For more information about the conference and online registration please click here (http://conferences.ocwconsorti um.org/index.php/2012/uk). For the full list of nominated candidates for the 2012 2012 Elections for the OCW Institutional Board of Directors Consortium Board of please click here Directors Open! (http://www.ocwconsortium.org/ en/community/election2012/201 Voting is open for 2012 2institutionalcandidates). Elections for OCWC Board of Directors. Members of the OCW For the full list of nominated Consortium will elect 4 candidates for the 2012 Institutional Representatives (2- Organizational Board of year terms) and 2 Directors please click here Organizational Representatives (http://www.ocwconsortium.org/ (1 to serve a 2-year term, 1 to en/community/election2012/201 serve a 1-year term) to the 2organizationalcandidates). OCW Consortium Board of

OCW Consortium announces 2012 winners of individual Awards for OpenCourseWare Excellence Dr. Oladele Ogunseitan, University of California, Irvine, is the recipient of this year’s Leadership ACE for his role in building the prominence of the UCI OCW site within that institution. José Vida Fernández, University Carlos III of Madrid, is the 2012 recipient of the Educator ACE in recognition of the outstanding body of content he has published through that university’s OCW site. MIT professor Shigeru Miyagawa has been awarded the President’s Award for OpenCourseWare Excellence for his leadership in developing MIT

OpenCourseWare and his pivotal role in fostering the growth of OCW in Japan and around the world. For more information about ACE and the winners of Individual Awards click here (http://www.ocwconsortium.or g/en/community/blog/2012/03/ 22/ocw-consortiumannounces-2012-winners-ofindividual-awards-foropencourseware-excellence/). Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) March webinar The March webinar organized by the CCCOER was on “Creating OER Friendly Policies at Your College”. If you missed it you can view the recording here: http://bit.ly/CCCOEROpenPoli cyWebinar

We welcome these new members to the community Institutional Members Beijing Normal University (http://www.bnu.edu.cn/), China Pasadena City College (www.pasadena.edu), United States Houston Community College District (http://www.hccs.edu/), United States Chung Hua University (http://english.chu.edu.tw/bin/h ome.php), Taiwan - Member of Regional Consortia - Taiwan OCW Consortium Organizational Members ABED - Brazilian Association for Distance Education (http://www2.abed.org.br), Brazil Crossborder Education Solutions (http://www.crossbordereducation.com/), Netherlands

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