Open Education Week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement. Its purpose is to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. Participation in all events and use of all resources are free and open to everyone.
The third annual Open Education Week takes place from March 10-15, with both online and locally hosted events around the world. The Open Education Week Organizing Committee invites your contributions to and participation in the third annual Open Education Week. There are many ways you can contribute to Open Education Week: upload an informational or inspirational video, host an event in your community, send links to resources about open education, hold a webinar, or even just promote Open Education Week in your social media networks. To contribute a video or resource, or to have your event or webinar featured on the Open Education Week Events calendar, please use the submission form at www.openeducationweek.org. Submissions must be sent by 28 February, 2014, and multiple submissions are welcome.

The Open Education Challenge was launched on 22 January 2014 at BETT 2014. The Challenge invites innovators in education to submit their idea for a chance to get seed funding, support and coaching to launch a startup.
The Open Education Challenge launches today, opening up a new opportunity for entrepreneurs and innovators in the field of education. The Challenge will identify 10 promising ideas to participate in the first ever European Incubator for Innovation in Education. More...

The In Focus section of the magazine IAU Horizons (Vol. 19 No.3) includes 10 papers focusing on the theme: Student Tuition Fees – perspectives from around the world.
Training and Support Programme for Academic Librarians on OER Use, Reuse, and Production 
The first stage of the new IAU project for Academic Librarians on Open Educational Resources (OER) use, reuse, and production took place in Accra, Ghana on 12 and 13 September 2013. It took the form of a Validation Workshop to raise awareness of and obtain feedback from the academic library community on the IAU project. It received funding from UNESCO’s Participation Fund and was organized in partnership with the Association of African Universities (AAU), an IAU Member organization.
The IAU project focuses on the uptake, production and practice of using Open Educational Resources (OER) – free digitized and non-digitized open teaching and learning materials – within Higher Education institutions. Open Educational Resources (OER) respond to access issues and to the notions of knowledge societies and lifelong learning. Yet, there is still confusion on what OER are, where they are located, how they can be adapted and re-used and how their quality is assured. The IAU believes that academic librarians are the best placed to advocate for and help in the development of OER.
Download the magazine IAU Horizons (Vol. 19 No.3).

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Quelques contributions

Café et cafés dans l’Égypte ottomane (xvi^e-xviii^e siècles)

Michel Tuchscherer

Remarques sur l’interdiction de la consommation du porc et de l’alcool

Jean-Noël Ferrié

Endogamie et intégration. Analyse des attitudes face au mariage de jeunes Marseillais d’origine kabyle

Karima Direche-Slimani

Le partenariat et la « relance » des Zep

Françoise Lorcerie

Le politique dans l’histoire touarègue

Hélène Claudot-Hawad (dir.)

Un document inédit à propos du massacre de la mission Flatters en 1881

Marceau Gast

Vie publique, patronage et clientèle. Rafic Hariri à Saïda
Emmanuel Bonne

Touaregs et autres Sahariens entre plusieurs mondes

Définitions et redéfinitions de soi et des autres

Hélène Claudot-Hawad (dir.)

Les Touaregs des Français

Jean-Robert Henry

Le documentaire dans l’Algérie coloniale

François Chevaldonné (dir.)

Les émigrants et leurs nations recompositions identitaires et nouvelles mobilisations des Arabes d’Argentine

Élisabeth Picard

Lieux et façons d’habiter, aujourd'hui

Jean-Charles Depaule (dir.)

Composition architecturale et recompositions habitantes à Hay Moulay Rachid (Casablanca)

Abdelmajid Arrif

Élites du monde nomade touareg et maure

Pierre Bonte et Hélène Claudot-Hawad (dir.)

À noter également 
Le commerce des épices au Caire, du xvi^e au xviii^e siècle, André Raymond,
extrait de l’ouvrage : Herbes, drogues et épices en Méditerranée. Histoire, anthropologie, économie du Moyen Âge à nos jours

Prochainement en ligne

L’art du bois à Saana (P. Bonnenfant et G. Bonnenfant)
L’habitat traditionnel dans les pays musulmans autour de la Méditerranée, 3 vol., en partenariat avec l’IFAO

Sabine Partouche
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By Konrad M. Lawson. Strong supporters of Open Access come to their position by many roads. My views developed partly from my own background, going from a university with relatively limited access to books and resources in my area of research, then to one where it felt like my access had almost no limits, and finally to work at a university where access to books and resources in my area is still limited. They are also the product of my interactions with some amazing historians who do their work outside of universities and greatly depend, in their day to day work, on their local libraries and whatever materials they can find on the open web. When one presenter at a recent open access panel at the American Historical Association asked the important question, “To what problem is Open Access the answer?” the first answer that came to my mind was rather simple, “My problem, and the problem faced by people whose historical work I care about: access.” More...

First Announcement: 2nd Regional Symposium on Open Educational Resources: Beyond Advocacy, Research and Policy (Hong-Kong, 24th - 27th June, 2014).

There will be an Open Education Resources Conference held in Newcastle on 28-29 April 2014. 
OER 2014 will focus on themes such as building and linking open practice communities, MOOCs, academic practice, development and pedagogy, open policy research, scholarship and access and students as users/co-creators. Paper submission closes on 22 November 2013. More information can be found here.
Website: oer14.