EUA this week launched the ‘Open Access checklist for universities: A practical guide on implementation’, a concise document to support universities in developing institutional policies on Open Access to research publications.
The Open Access checklist is addressed to higher education and research institutions that are developing, or planning to develop, a policy on Open Access to research publications. It is intended as a general guide in the development of institutional policies on Open Access and can be useful for different stakeholders, including the leadership, administration, librarians and researchers. More...

More than 80 participants from around the world followed the free webinar “Moving towards Open Educational Practices”, organized by the Education in the Digital Era team (part of the Open Education Europa portal) on 21 April. More...

Eliademy announces the crowdsourcing of OER online courses in order to democratize education. Helsinki – 10 April, 2015. Start of an initiative of crowdsourcing open online courses under CC licenses BY-NC-SA on the e-learning platform Eliademy. More...

In 2011, Polish government launched the “Digital school” program, the largest ICT program in primary and secondary schools to date, with a significant open e-textbooks component. The program generated, for the first time, considerable interest of main stream media in the subject of open education. More...

Opening up education and Open Educational Resources (OER) are moving higher on the educational agenda for many countries across Europe and becoming a priority. No longer at the periphery of mainstream education, OER are entering the global mainstream in education.1 However, the uptake of OER in languages which are less used than the world languages, in particular English, is lagging. More...

By Tony Bates. If you have downloaded my open textbook, ‘Teaching in a Digital Age’ in pdf or Modi format for the iPad or Kobo, you may have noticed that many of the images I have liberally used throughout the book do not fit on the page or have become separated from their ‘frame’ (the green and black lines before and after the images), in the downloaded versions. More...