News
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Courses
Open Online Course on Programming for Geospatial Hydrological Applications launched – March 7, 2021 (India Education Diary)
Events
Opening UCL: A symposium on open education – March 13, 2019
General
Mada launches two platforms to support access to information – April 6, 2020 (The Peninsula Qatar)
Launch of the UNESCO dynamic coalition for open education resources (OER) – April 1, 2020 (UNESCO)
6 Nigerian states to pilot open schooling system – February 17, 2020 (PM News Nigeria)
Training programme on open education held – December 18, 2019 (The Pioneer)
Sarvodaya-Fusion partners with Open University of Sri Lanka and NIBM to offer advanced ICT education to rural children – December 16, 2019 (MenaFN)
Germany’s Christian Democratic Union party outlines commitment to open digital standards – November 27, 2019 (Reclaim the Net)
The OA Interviews: K. VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India – October 31, 2019 (Open and Shut?)
Be very impressed by the open LMS of Open University of China – October 7, 2019 (LMS Pulse)
Open Scotland shared curation invitation – October 2019 (Open Scotland)
Second meeting of UNESCO ICT competency framework/OER network – August 27, 2019 (UNESCO News)
Global Open Initiative co-founders, Sadat & Sadik, to attend the 2019 Civil Servant research summit in Stockholm – August 15, 2019 (News Ghana)
Accessing learning and research materials – August 6, 2019 (Newsday)
IBM to train over 1 million female students in India in 3 years – March 11, 2019 (The Times of India)
Focus on India–WikiConference produces new apps; state government adopts free licenses – August 18, 2016 (The Signpost)
Monographs
Humanities scholars warn over UKRI’s plan for open-access books – February 17, 2020 (Times Higher Education)
OA monographs: policy and practice for supporting researchers -October 8,2019 (Jisc scholarly communications)
Open educational resources (OER)
Nigeria identifies priority areas for open educational resources – March 15, 2021 (India Education Diary)
Chitral varsity’s website to facilitate students in online education – April 23, 2020 (Dawn)
TISS launches online portal for school education – December 10, 2019 (The Hindu)
EUR 98 mln financing contracts signed for two projects aimed at digitizing Romania’s education system – September 11, 2019 (Romania Insider)
Let’s sprint again 🙂 – August 19, 2019 (OER World Map)
Innovative teaching seen to improve access, quality of education – July 4, 2019 (Philstar Global)
OSOU, OCL talk on ‘open edu resources’ – June 23, 2019 (the pioneer)
EFLU to roll out new proficiency course in 13 languages – April 15, 2019 (The Hans India)
NOUN trains varsities staff on open educational resources – March 12, 2019 (Leadership)
Diversifying the medical curriculum using open educational resources – May 16, 2016 (Teaching Matters blog)
Publishers/publishing
McGraw-Hill Education/Cengage Learning Holdings merger inquiry – November 19, 2019/update January 14, 2020
Pearson faces “deep-rooted challenges” as CEO joins FTSE exodus – December 18, 2019 (Proactive)
Scholarship
Knowledge Exchange has compiled a collection of interviews which illustrate how pioneering initiatives set up and operate new, or alternative business models, in the area of open scholarship – June 1, 2019 (Knowledge Exchange)
Textbook costs
‘Price gouging from Covid’: student ebooks costing up to 500% more than in print – January 29, 2021 (The Guardian)