Open Ed conference 2010

Casa Batllo, Barcelona; Photo © Tony Bates, 2006

November 2-4, 2010, the seventh annual Open Education Conference moves to Barcelona for its first convening outside of North America! The 2010 conference venue is CosmoCaixa, designated Europe’s best science museum in 2006.

The conference theme for 2010 is OER: Impact and [...]

SAIDE newletter on open and distance education in Africa

The South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE) has published its latest newsletter. Two articles caught my eye.

Mhlanga, E. (2010) SOFIE (Strengthening Open and Flexible Learning for Increased Education) Project Findings SAIDE Newsletter, Vol. 16, No. 2

The aim of this study was to increase access to education and learning for young people [...]

More news from the eLearning Africa 2010 conference

The news portal for the eLearning Africa 2010 conference in Lusaka, Zambia, between May 26-28 has the following news items about presentations to be made at the conference:

Haggards, S. (2010) African Digital Diaries – Portraits of Ad Hoc eLearning in Africa, eLearning Africa 2010 News Portal, March 31

This is a podcast about [...]

Impact of open courseware on distance education enrollments

Johansen J. (2009) The Impact of Opencourseware on Paid Enrollment in Distance Learning Courses Salt Lake City UT: Brigham Young University

This is a Ph.D. thesis about the cost of converting online distance learning courses to OCW, the impact of opening these courses on paid enrollments, and the long-term sustainability of OCW through the [...]

New policy on OER in Africa

SAIDE (2009) SAIDE Launches Policy on Open Educational Resources (OER)

OER Africa has now been adopted as a SAIDE (South African Association of Distance Education) ‘brand’, which comes to incorporate all of SAIDE’s OER-related activities. This will serve to ensure that there is no confusion beyond SAIDE about the relationship between the two, while [...]