We held a workshop on Open Education and Student Mobility on Tuesday 12 and Wednesday 13 June 2013 in Madrid, at the facilities of UPM. On Tuesday we discussed what institutions can do with OpenCourseWare to promote student mobility, e.g. in the context of Erasmus Exchanges.
Stephanie Verbeken and Fred Truyen have got a paper accepted at the ECEL13 conference, 30-31 October, Sophia Antipolis, France. They will talk about OCW KU Leuven there, more specifically about the issues they are resolving when trying to publicize the Open Course of Pentalfa.
Join ICORE - the International Council for Open Research and Education.
The main objective of ICORE is to promote Open Research and Open Education and to network and bring together the interested experts and stakeholders from both worlds to join forces: Open Research and Open Education can benefit mutually from each other and achieve more impact together through one voice!
Partners in 11 countries have joined forces to launch the first pan-European 'MOOCs' (Massive Open Online Courses) initiative, with the support of the European Commission. MOOCs are online university courses which enable people to access quality education without having to leave their homes. Around 40 courses, covering a wide variety of subjects, will be available free of charge and in 12 different languages.
