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OpenCourseWare - putting texts and videos of educational lectures online for anyone to download, use and often build on - is a great idea.  ...

As its name suggests, a commons is an outgrowth of things held in common, like common land. This has been extended to the digital sphere wi...

One of the miracles of free software is that it always begins with one or two people saying: “hey, how hard can it be?” The miracle is that ...

Here's an interesting project: the Open Course Library . These are its goals : * design 81 high enrollment courses for face-to-face, hy...

How did I miss this amazing project ? The expansion of Free Software has brought together a continually growing global community of develope...

It was bound to happen: opencourseware is under attack : While seeking to make college more accessible, the Obama administration has launche...

Daft name, great idea : As a growing number of worldwide learners log on, free of charge, to video and podcast lectures and events at the Un...

One of the interesting applications of openness has been to education. The potential is plain: why re-invent the wheel when it comes to cre...

Opencourseware grew out of the application of open source ideas to education, so it seems appropriate that education should return the favou...

It seems a no-brainer that the United Nations University (yes, it exists ) should make available its courses for the world and her dog to us...

Given the centrality of search to the way we use the Internet, it's surprising that we're still stuck with a few file-types - essent...

This was bound to happen: YouTube is now an important teaching tool at UC Berkeley. The school announced on Wednesday that it has begun pos...

If you ever had any doubts about how amazingly wonderful the open source modelling package Blender was, take a peep at these highly impressi...

I've written about open courseware a few times, particularly the big names. But there's plenty of other good courses out there, fre...

Some nice cc'd courses from the kind people at the Open University. (Via The Inquirer .)

Great news (via Open Access News and the Guardian ): the Open University is turning a selection of its learning materials into open course...