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Last update: Jun 8\/21<\/div>\r\n

<\/a>Courses<\/h1>\r\n

Open Online Course on Programming for Geospatial Hydrological Applications launched<\/a> - March 7, 2021 (India Education Diary)\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

<\/a>Events<\/h1>\r\nOpening UCL: A symposium on open education<\/a> - March 13, 2019\r\n

<\/a>General<\/h1>\r\n

Mada launches two platforms to support access to information<\/a> - April 6, 2020 (The Peninsula Qatar)<\/p>\r\nLaunch of the UNESCO dynamic coalition for open education resources (OER)<\/a> - April 1, 2020 (UNESCO)\r\n\r\n6 Nigerian states to pilot open schooling system<\/a> - February 17, 2020 (PM News Nigeria)\r\n\r\nTraining programme on open education held<\/a> - December 18, 2019 (The Pioneer)\r\n\r\nSarvodaya-Fusion partners with Open University of Sri Lanka and NIBM to offer advanced ICT education to rural children<\/a> - December 16, 2019 (MenaFN)\r\n\r\nGermany's Christian Democratic Union party outlines commitment to open digital standards<\/a> - November 27, 2019 (Reclaim the Net)\r\n\r\nThe OA Interviews: K. VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India<\/a> - October 31, 2019 (Open and Shut?)\r\n\r\nBe very impressed by the open LMS of Open University of China<\/a> - October 7, 2019 (LMS Pulse)\r\n\r\nOpen Scotland shared curation invitation<\/a> - October 2019 (Open Scotland)\r\n\r\nSecond meeting of UNESCO ICT competency framework\/OER network<\/a> - August 27, 2019 (UNESCO News)\r\n\r\nGlobal Open Initiative co-founders, Sadat & Sadik, to attend the 2019 Civil Servant research summit in Stockholm<\/a> - August 15, 2019 (News Ghana)\r\n\r\nAccessing learning and research materials<\/a> - August 6, 2019 (Newsday)\r\n\r\nIBM to train over 1 million female students in India in 3 years<\/a> - March 11, 2019 (The Times of India)\r\n\r\nFocus on India--WikiConference produces new apps; state government adopts free licenses<\/a> - August 18, 2016 (The Signpost)\r\n

<\/a>Monographs<\/h1>\r\nHumanities scholars warn over UKRI's plan for open-access books<\/a> - February 17, 2020 (Times Higher Education)\r\n\r\nOA monographs: policy and practice for supporting researchers<\/a> -October 8,2019 (Jisc scholarly communications)\r\n

<\/a>Open educational resources (OER)<\/h1>\r\n

Nigeria identifies priority areas for open educational resources<\/a> - March 15, 2021 (India Education Diary)\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\nChitral varsity's website to facilitate students in online education<\/a> - April 23, 2020 (Dawn)\r\n\r\nTISS launches online portal for school education<\/a> - December 10, 2019 (The Hindu)\r\n\r\nEUR 98 mln financing contracts signed for two projects aimed at digitizing Romania's education system<\/a> - September 11, 2019 (Romania Insider)\r\n\r\nLet's sprint again :)<\/a> - August 19, 2019 (OER World Map)\r\n\r\nInnovative teaching seen to improve access, quality of education<\/a> - July 4, 2019 (Philstar Global)\r\n\r\nOSOU, OCL talk on 'open edu resources'<\/a> - June 23, 2019 (the pioneer)\r\n\r\nEFLU to roll out new proficiency course in 13 languages<\/a> - April 15, 2019 (The Hans India)\r\n\r\nNOUN trains varsities staff on open educational resources<\/a> - March 12, 2019 (Leadership)\r\n\r\nDiversifying the medical curriculum using open educational resources<\/a> - May 16, 2016 (Teaching Matters blog)\r\n

<\/a>Publishers\/publishing<\/h1>\r\nMcGraw-Hill Education\/Cengage Learning Holdings merger inquiry<\/a> - November 19, 2019\/update January 14, 2020\r\n\r\nPearson faces \"deep-rooted challenges\" as CEO joins FTSE exodus<\/a> - December 18, 2019 (Proactive)\r\n

<\/a>Scholarship<\/h1>\r\nKnowledge 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<\/a> - June 1, 2019 (Knowledge Exchange)\r\n

<\/a>Textbook costs<\/h1>\r\n'Price gouging from Covid': student ebooks costing up to 500% more than in print<\/a> - January 29, 2021 (The Guardian)","rendered":"
Last update: Jun 8\/21<\/div>\n

<\/a>Courses<\/h1>\n

Open Online Course on Programming for Geospatial Hydrological Applications launched<\/a> – March 7, 2021 (India Education Diary)
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a>Events<\/h1>\n

Opening UCL: A symposium on open education<\/a> – March 13, 2019<\/p>\n

<\/a>General<\/h1>\n

Mada launches two platforms to support access to information<\/a> – April 6, 2020 (The Peninsula Qatar)<\/p>\n

Launch of the UNESCO dynamic coalition for open education resources (OER)<\/a> – April 1, 2020 (UNESCO)<\/p>\n

6 Nigerian states to pilot open schooling system<\/a> – February 17, 2020 (PM News Nigeria)<\/p>\n

Training programme on open education held<\/a> – December 18, 2019 (The Pioneer)<\/p>\n

Sarvodaya-Fusion partners with Open University of Sri Lanka and NIBM to offer advanced ICT education to rural children<\/a> – December 16, 2019 (MenaFN)<\/p>\n

Germany’s Christian Democratic Union party outlines commitment to open digital standards<\/a> – November 27, 2019 (Reclaim the Net)<\/p>\n

The OA Interviews: K. VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India<\/a> – October 31, 2019 (Open and Shut?)<\/p>\n

Be very impressed by the open LMS of Open University of China<\/a> – October 7, 2019 (LMS Pulse)<\/p>\n

Open Scotland shared curation invitation<\/a> – October 2019 (Open Scotland)<\/p>\n

Second meeting of UNESCO ICT competency framework\/OER network<\/a> – August 27, 2019 (UNESCO News)<\/p>\n

Global Open Initiative co-founders, Sadat & Sadik, to attend the 2019 Civil Servant research summit in Stockholm<\/a> – August 15, 2019 (News Ghana)<\/p>\n

Accessing learning and research materials<\/a> – August 6, 2019 (Newsday)<\/p>\n

IBM to train over 1 million female students in India in 3 years<\/a> – March 11, 2019 (The Times of India)<\/p>\n

Focus on India–WikiConference produces new apps; state government adopts free licenses<\/a> – August 18, 2016 (The Signpost)<\/p>\n

<\/a>Monographs<\/h1>\n

Humanities scholars warn over UKRI’s plan for open-access books<\/a> – February 17, 2020 (Times Higher Education)<\/p>\n

OA monographs: policy and practice for supporting researchers<\/a> -October 8,2019 (Jisc scholarly communications)<\/p>\n

<\/a>Open educational resources (OER)<\/h1>\n

Nigeria identifies priority areas for open educational resources<\/a> – March 15, 2021 (India Education Diary)
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Chitral varsity’s website to facilitate students in online education<\/a> – April 23, 2020 (Dawn)<\/p>\n

TISS launches online portal for school education<\/a> – December 10, 2019 (The Hindu)<\/p>\n

EUR 98 mln financing contracts signed for two projects aimed at digitizing Romania’s education system<\/a> – September 11, 2019 (Romania Insider)<\/p>\n

Let’s sprint again \ud83d\ude42<\/a> – August 19, 2019 (OER World Map)<\/p>\n

Innovative teaching seen to improve access, quality of education<\/a> – July 4, 2019 (Philstar Global)<\/p>\n

OSOU, OCL talk on ‘open edu resources’<\/a> – June 23, 2019 (the pioneer)<\/p>\n

EFLU to roll out new proficiency course in 13 languages<\/a> – April 15, 2019 (The Hans India)<\/p>\n

NOUN trains varsities staff on open educational resources<\/a> – March 12, 2019 (Leadership)<\/p>\n

Diversifying the medical curriculum using open educational resources<\/a> – May 16, 2016 (Teaching Matters blog)<\/p>\n

<\/a>Publishers\/publishing<\/h1>\n

McGraw-Hill Education\/Cengage Learning Holdings merger inquiry<\/a> – November 19, 2019\/update January 14, 2020<\/p>\n

Pearson faces “deep-rooted challenges” as CEO joins FTSE exodus<\/a> – December 18, 2019 (Proactive)<\/p>\n

<\/a>Scholarship<\/h1>\n

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<\/a> – June 1, 2019 (Knowledge Exchange)<\/p>\n

<\/a>Textbook costs<\/h1>\n

‘Price gouging from Covid’: student ebooks costing up to 500% more than in print<\/a> – January 29, 2021 (The Guardian)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"menu_order":3,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-76","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":59,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/openedinfo\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/openedinfo\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/openedinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/openedinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/openedinfo\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2108,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/openedinfo\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/76\/revisions\/2108"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/openedinfo\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/59"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/openedinfo\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/76\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/openedinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/openedinfo\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/openedinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/openedinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}