Resource GETideas.org hosted this GooglePlus hangout on the future of digital content. The online discussion featured a panel of education experts, including Nicole Allen, affordable-textbooks advocate, Student PIRGS; Una Daly, communication college outreach director, OpenCourseWare Consortium; and Cable Green, director of global learning, Creative Commons. more

Event GETideas.org hosts this GooglePlus hangout to engage with noted thought leaders on how to help educators innovate. The discussion includes a dialogue on how innovation in education is defined, as well as how education leaders can stay on top of current trends. Panelists include: Marie Bjerede, founder, e-Mergents Suzie Boss, education... more

Event Watch this GETideas Hangout video! Educational institutions are confronted with a variety of choices and issues regarding the publishing of educational materials. GETideas.org is hosting this GooglePlus hangout on Digital Content to address the benefits and problems associated with digital transformation–and to help education leaders prepare for the future. The... more

Resource The Chronicle of Higher Education profiles dot-com billionaire Michael J. Saylor, founder of Saylor.org, a nonprofit online university that offers students a free, one-stop shop for self-paced college courses. Saylor.org aggregates free content offered by open-source providers, including MIT OpenCourseWare and Open Yale Courses, and organizes it so that students may pursue... more

News Educational organizations across the Web are adopting badges to certify abilities and skills that employers might look for, like mentorship or digital video editing. This is not limited to online-only educational institutions, such as the Khan Academy. On the traditional side, for example, MIT is creating MITx, a self-service learning... more

News Millions of learners have enjoyed the free lecture videos and other course materials published online through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) OpenCourseWare project. Now MIT plans to release a fresh batch of open online courses–and, for the first time, to offer certificates to outside students who complete them. The credentials... more

Resource KQED MindShift marks the 10th anniversary of MIT OpenCourseware (OCW) and the annual meeting of the OCW Consortium with information on newer Web 2.0 open educational resources (OER)--that is, resources that move beyond Web 1.0 to provide opportunities for interaction and engagement. The list includes P2PU, OER Glue, OCWSearch, and Connextions. more

Resource Acknowledging MIT OpenCourseWare's 10th anniversary, ReadWriteWeb looks at the organization's ambitious roadmap for the next decade, which includes the goal of expanding its reach ten-fold "to reach a billion minds." more