Taking to the Cloud to Make OER Available

From Sue Evans, Co-Founder and CEO With the recent release of SoftChalk Cloud, you’ll have to excuse our eager chatter about all things cloud. We have many good reasons to be enthusiastic, including the ways in which the cloud enables … Read More

Behind the Scenes with Jacqui Cain, an OER Content Developer

Jacqui Cain, an instructor at College of the Redwoods, has worked on many OER projects. She has developed content as part of the the Open Course Library Project and created an open textbook/reader under the Kaleidoscope Grant. She is also … Read More

Open Education Resources: What’s in it for me?

From Sue Evans, Co-Founder and CEO Many of us involved in e-learning and education are very excited about one very big idea: open education resources, or OER. It’s easy to find out who’s making them, where to find them and … Read More

Blendedschools.net is Empowering Schools to Teach and Learn Online with Open Educational Resources

Our next Innovators in Online Learning webinar will feature blendedschools.net (BSN) and their adoption of the first independent, branded CONNECT repository, BSN Cloud. The webinar will show how this implementation supports BSN’s initiative to increase accessibility to high quality learning … Read More

Freshly Tweeted – A Snapshot of the #OERseries

We wrapped up the OER webinar series yesterday with an informative panel presentation on funding OER by Paul Stacey, Director of BCcampus, Cable Green, Director of Global Learning at Creative Commons and James Glapa-Grossklag, Dean of Educational Technology, Learning Resources … Read More

The OER Webinar Series Continues and the COT Small Grant Program

If you’re interested in creating, sharing, finding or funding high quality open educational resources, you won’t want to miss the last two webinars of the OER Series. The third webinar, Creating OER: The WHO and the HOW, will be held … Read More