One year on and still going strong! Today, 25 September 2014, marks the one year anniversary of the Open Education Europa Portal and the Opening up Education Initiative by the European Commission, and to celebrate the occasion we’re unveiling a series of new additions to the portal. More...

FOSTER (Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research) is a 2-year, EU-Funded (FP7) project, carried out by 13 partners across 8 countries. The primary aim is to produce a European-wide training programme that will help researchers, postgraduate students, librarians and other stakeholders to incorporate Open Access approaches into their existing research methodologies. More...

Developing new ways for students and educators to share. The main purpose of licensing educational material under open licences is to allow for anyone to use, re-use or re-purpose them.
However, despite a strong movement in recent years to publish such material, OER reuse is still not a common practice in Higher Education, schools and enterprises. More...

The Living Lab is a participatory research method in which partners actively explore and test out the new tools and provide feedback for ongoing improvements. Both OER providers and institutions recognizing OER are invited to join the Lab. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Open Education Professional Directory
Various authors, Open Education Consortium, 2014/09/18

If you're looking for speakers, consultants or experts to assist you with issues related to open educational resources, you can't do better than the The Open Education Professional Directory. More...