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France: OER Policy Forum in Paris

UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning extend an open invitation to attend a Policy Forum on Open Educational Resources (OERs) next month in Paris within the framework of the UNESCO-COL initiative, “Taking OER beyond the OER community: Policy and Capacity”. The UNESCO/COL OER Policy Forum will examine the results of the “Taking OER beyond the [...]

FTA: Early Bird Registration Deadline coming up!

The deadline for the Early Bird registrations has been extended to November 15th, 2010. After this date, the standard tuition fee (for a 5 ECTS course in 2011) of EUR 380 is applicable. If you want to make use of the 10% Early Bird discount, please register before this date! Note that registration is complete [...]

ICT Resources Centres for Special Needs Education

In the framework of the recent reorganization of Special Needs Education in Portugal, aiming at the inclusion of children and youth, with permanent special needs, in mainstream schools, several measures were undertaken to support this ongoing process. Human and material resources were assigned to schools, setting up special units for multiple disabilities, for autism spectrum [...]

Quality within OER

The Open Educational Quality Initiative will focus on provision of innovative open educational practices and promote quality, innovation and transparency in higher and adult education. The OPAL Initiative is a partnership between seven organizations including the ICDE, UNESCO, European Foundation for Quality, the Open University UK, Aalto University and the Catholic University Portugal. It is [...]

Free MIT course materials

In this article, we would like to highlight one of the global leading initiatives about open learning. It’s about MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) OpenCourseWare (OCW), OCW is s a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. It is a [...]

Convention between Atarsnet and WIDDOO

Following the seminar entitled: “E-learning on high technology and science for Developing Countries Strategy and synergies “ that was jointly organized by the Tunisian Association for scientific research assistance over the net Atars’ net and the International Centre for Science and High Technology of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (ICS-UNIDO) on 23 November 2009, [...]