by Michelle Rutledge: The Monterey Institute of Technology and Education has launched HippoCampus, a website designed to supplement learning for high school and college students in order to assist with credit recovery and home schooling, as well as AP and general ed use. HippoCampus is an open education resource and is available free of charge to all users.

"Our mission is to increase access to quality education for everyone. HippoCampus is a big step toward achieving that goal. Individuals i more...

WorldChanging.com Mara Hvistendahl: As China goes back to school this September, the nation's university system bears examination. Expanding at a dizzying rate, the system is rife with problems, chief among them an application process that deepens class divisions. Urban applicants, who tend to be wealthier and have more access to educational resources, are given special consideration in gaining admission to competitive Beijing and Shanghai universities. At the same time, China's growing student more...

Award Is Largest Private Gift in UC Berkeley History.

MENLO PARK, Calif. – The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has awarded a $113 million grant to the University of California, Berkeley—the largest private gift in the university’s history. The gift, which will create 100 endowed chairs for professors, will help ensure that California’s preeminent public university remains competitive with the best private universities.

The grant will be given over the next seven years and will more...

FOOTHILL COLLEGE, Los Altos Hills, CA--Content for eight courses is now available online for free through the Sofia open content initiative, thanks to the joint contributions of faculty, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Foothill-De Anza Community College District, and can now be accessed at the Course Gallery. Learn more... You may also see an overview of pilot.

Date: 09 August 2007

COL seeks submissions for 2007-2008 Excellence in Distance Education Awards to be presented at the 5th Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning. Closes 31 October 2007.

These awards, which will be presented at the Fifth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning in London from 13-17 July 2008, recognise excellence in four categories: the overall institutional level, the development of learning materials, a lifetime's work as an educator and student accomplishment.

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Help Curriki identify the most promising resources in our database and guide others along the path to excellence. Curriki seeks part-time paid Lead Reviewers to coordinate efforts in the the major subject areas (Math, Science, Language Arts, and Social Studies) as well as a large number of volunteer reviewers in all subject areas.

A new University program launched this week will make recordings of lectures and presentations available to the general public through Apple Computer’s popular iTunes software.

Yale’s portion of iTunes U — an interactive multimedia initiative meant to make classroom materials more accessible to students at schools across the country — features talks by prominent faculty on subjects ranging from the humanities and religion to law and the environment. The new program comes a year after more...

OCW is looking for new partners to help make available OCW materials in regions with limited or prohibitively costly internet access. Do you know an educational organization that could be a partner? Then please contact OCW for more information: mailto:ocw-mail@mit.edu.

Thursday, 16 August 2007 / Press Release: Otago Polytech.

Vancouver-based Commonwealth of Learning (CoL) representative Wayne MacKintosh, an expert in the field of open and distance learning, visits Dunedin this week to meet with the growing number of Otago Polytechnic staff members developing education resources on the CoL’s WikiEducator initiative.

While WikiEducator is likely to be unfamiliar to most as yet, the website which is loosely related to the world’s largest, most extensive more...

Source: UNESCO
Published Monday, 3 September, 2007 - 08:50

The Hewlett Foundation, ccLearn (Creative Commons' educational division) and Google are working together to build an open education web-scale search, part of a larger effort to offer web users simple, overarching mechanisms for discovering open educational resources (OERs).

This tool aims to direct search engine traffic to the incredible diversity of OER repositories and communities. While such a tool would not replace the more s more...