On the 16th and 17th of April 2007, the third EduMedia conference of Salzburg Research took place at St. Virgil in Salzburg, Austria. This year the conference dealt with "Open Educational Practices and Resources for Lifelong Learning". How does self-directed, lifelong learning benefits from open training materials on the Internet, from open source based learning-software and from common good licences?

Cet article publié par a-brest en septembre 2006 s'intéresse à l'ouvrage de stiglitz. "Un autre monde" est un réquisitoire contre une mondialisation déséquilibrée. L'article partage un interview avec l'auteur publié par Libération sur le thème des droits d'auteur, de la proriété intellectuelle et du savoir en libre accès.

Abstracts of the presentations on Open Data at XTech 2007 (Paris, May 15-18, 2007) are now online.

International Conference on Opencourseware 2006 in Kyoto:
The mission of the OCW Consortium was to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Japan OCW Alliance and Kyoto University, who has hosted the upcoming OpenCourseWare Consortium Spring 2006 meeting, have announced dates for the meeting, which was held April 20 and 21, 2006, in Kyoto, Japan.
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All 1,800 of Massachusetts Institute of Technology courses will be available online for free, as the project that began in fall 2003 nears completion this year.

The online project, officially Massachusetts Institute of Technology OpenCourseWare, is an online tool that displays all lecture notes, previous exams and study materials offered to MIT students for anyone to access, unlike Vanderbilt's Online Access to Knowledge, which is restricted to Vanderbilt students.

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OLCOS, the Open eLearning Content Observatory Services project (1/2006-12/2007) is funded under the European Union’s eLearning Programme and aims at building an (online) information and observation centre for promoting the concept, production and usage of open educational resources, in particular, open digital educational content (ODEC) in Europe. The project consortium consists of six institutions from five European countries (see Consortium) and is co-ordinated by Salzburg Research.

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This paper titled "Cultural Responses to Open Licences and the Accessibility and Usability of Open Educational Resources" was written by Richard McCracken from the Open University. It addresses some of the licensing issues raised by creating and licensing Open Educational Resources.

This article published in April 2007 by the Washington Times introduces the Open Education movement: "I have always wondered about going to an Ivy League school. My brother, who attended Cornell, told me that up to the first day of Law School, fellow students were packing and leaving for Harvard upon receiving late acceptance notices to that school. Apparently, the name Harvard is just that important.
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Do you want to benefit from the Yale A2K (Access to Knowledge) latest Conference? Then please visit its dedicated wiki offering detailed information about panels, outputs, or presentations. Practitioners will find a lot of interesting information about the "Open Access" to knowledge movement.

Published by Cathy May 2nd, 2007 in OER. Sorry for the lull - getting back on track. Writing from the OCW Consortium meeting in Santander and amazed at the number of new groups sitting here with over 100 participants. Universities from Venezuela, Iran, Korea, Vietnam, Cambridge U., Arizona State, Tulane U, Turkey, Finland are all around the table. Seems like the uptake is at a new level and the challenges equally as strong. The clear gap is the dearth of institutions from the developing world. more...