This week is the first “Open Education Week” ever held, and to celebrate the event there are webinars about how to access and use open content education resources being held around the world.

You can find more information at http://www.openeducationweek.org/

About Open Education

Open education is about sharing, reducing barriers and increasing access in education.  It includes free and open access to platforms, tools and resources in education (such as learning materials, course materials, videos of lectures, assessment tools, research, study groups, textbooks, etc.).  Open education seeks to create a world in which the desire to learn is fully met by the opportunity to do so, where everyone, everywhere is able to access affordable, educationally and culturally appropriate opportunities to gain whatever knowledge or training they desire.

The resources available on the Open Education website include complete lecture series from major universities, such as U.C. Berkeley, U.C. Irvine, Princeton, MIT, and Stanford.  While the Open Education resources are in many areas, many are in the field of Computer Science, especially from MIT.

Special thanks to Jacob J. Walker, M.Ed. Chief System Architect of the Effective Education Project for passing this information on: www.EffectiveEducation.org