Open Education

TRANSFORMING EDUCATION THROUGH OPEN APPROACHES

24-26 APRIL 2018

DELFT, THE NETHERLANDS

The Open Education Global Conference is where the world meets to discuss how opening education helps us achieve universal access, equity, innovation and opportunity in education. The OE Global conference is the most internationally diverse conference devoted exclusively to open education, attracting researchers, practitioners, policy makers, educators and students from more than 35 countries to discuss and explore how Open Education advances educational practices around the world.

OE Global 2018 will take place from 24-26 April 2018 in Delft, the Netherlands, hosted by the Open Education Consortium and Delft University of Technology. The theme of OE Global 2018 is Transforming Education through Open.

Conference website: https://conference.oeconsortium.org/2018/

Good Medium post by Kristina Peters, the K-12 Open Education Fellow in the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education.

#GoOpen States

What if we could ensure that every student, no matter where they live or the income of their parents, could get access to a great book?  What if they had access to not just one book, but a library of thousands of titles – and could read them from anywhere?

We’ve taken a big step toward that vision thanks to Open eBooks, a stakeholder-driven project that the President highlighted last April, and that after months of hard work by a team of libraries, publishers, and non-profits, is launching nationwide today. For millions of America’s kids, Open eBooks can be a passport to a world of learning and opportunity – delivering over $250 million of reading material to students who need it most, and introducing them to a love of reading.

OpenEd15: The Impact of Open

November 18-20, Vancouver BC, Canada

The Call for Proposals is Open! Submit before April 17!

Over six months ago, the Open Education Challenge launched to identify the top education start-ups and provide them with the support and funding necessary to make a significant impact in the education sphere, particularly in Europe.

From over 600 applications received in February, a panel of evaluators painstakingly narrowed down the competition over two rounds of selections. Eighteen teams made it to Barcelona for the Finalists’ Workshop on July 13-15, where they pitched their projects to a European Jury chaired by Lord David Puttnam and with the participation of Xavier Prats Monné, Deputy Director-General for Education and Culture at the European Commission.

Rest at openeducationchallenge.eu/blog/announcing-winners-open-education-challenge

Keynote address delivered to the Maryland Distance Learning Association (MDLA) March 2014.

Stanford University is clearly a global leader in higher education and in the evolving MOOC revolution.  Steve Kolowich has written an interesting article entitled “With Open Platform, Stanford Seeks to Reclaim MOOC Brand” for the Chronicle of Higher Education.  The thrust of the message is that despite, or perhaps because of, the rapid successes of the proprietary Coursera, Udacity, and similar MOOC providers, Stanford is working to provide an open-source alternative through the Open edX platform.  Eventually this will be part of a virtual Stanford campus.

SEATTLE — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced the Next Generation Learning Challenges, a collaborative, multi-year initiative, which aims to help dramatically improve college readiness and college completion in the United States through the use of technology. The program will provide grants to organizations and innovators to expand promising technology tools to more students, teachers, and schools. It is led by nonprofit EDUCAUSE, which works to advance higher education through the use of information technology.

Next Generation Learning Challenges released the first of a series of RFPs today to solicit funding proposals for technology applications that can improve postsecondary education. This round of funding will total up to $20 million, including grants that range from $250,000 to $750,000. Applicants with top-rated proposals will receive funds to expand their programs and demonstrate effectiveness in serving larger numbers of students. Proposals are due November 19, 2010; winners are expected to be announced by March 31, 2011.

Rest at Gates Foundation Press Release