The Directorate-General for Education and Culture of the European Commission is organising a consultation on "Opening up Education - a proposal for a European Initiative to enhance education and skills development through new technologies".
Last month there was a special edition of the Journal Distance Education about OER. After a lot of online comments the publisher Taylor & Francis opened the issue to the public, so now everyone can read the articles.
The articles in the journal are:
Last month I wrote about the video's of the Why Open Education Matters Contest and that you can vote for it.
The jury winners are announced today. I have embedded the winning video below. I think it is a really good video to use as an introduction to Open Education.
Last friday during the 20120 World OER Congress at UNESCO HQ in Paris the 2012 Paris OER Declaration is approved. This declaration is the result of a process of couple of months with regional and online meetings and the final discussion at the Congress. The declaration recommends States to:
The next three days I will be present at the 2012 World Congress on Open Educational Resources at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. With my European project about OpenCourseWare in Europe I have a stand at the exhibition.
