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Mon 05 Jan 2009 // Local universities offer free online courses for lifelong learning
Taiwan News

Mon 22 Dec 2008 // Turkey's Open Courseware Consortium Gains Life
Turkish Academy of Sciences

Sat 13 Dec 2008 // Beyond the Diploma Mills
Newsweek

Thu 04 Dec 2008 // UAF offers Oceans 111, and other courses, to the world
The Arctic Sounder

Wed 03 Dec 2008 // MIT OpenCourseWare marks 50 million visitors
Boston Globe

Mon 01 Dec 2008 // CFP Board Awards $199,390 in Grant Funding to Five Projects Across the U.S.
SYS-CON Media

Sun 23 Nov 2008 // Open Content for Learning
The Hindu

Thu 13 Nov 2008 // UAF Joins Course Consortium
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

Fri 17 Oct 2008 // Curious About Game Theory? Milton? Yale Has a Free Course for You
Chronicle / Wired Campus

Thu 09 Oct 2008 // MIT's 8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics and 18.06 Linear Algebra Reach Million Visit Milestone
MIT OCW News

Wed 24 Sep 2008 // Making textbooks accessible
Ottawa Citizen

Fri 19 Sep 2008 // D'Oliveira to lead MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT News

Wed 17 Sep 2008 // MIT : 1800 cours au bout des doigts
Quartier Libre (French)

Tue 16 Sep 2008 // 60+ Open Courseware Collections to Help You Be a Better Teacher
smartteaching.org

Sun 14 Sep 2008 // Don’t Buy That Textbook, Download It Free
NY Times

Thu 11 Sep 2008 // Professor Uses Web 'Widgets' to Share Course Content
The Chronicle

Tue 26 Aug 2008 // Mike Caulfield joins the Consortium
OCW Blog

Tue 26 Aug 2008 // OCW Consortium Executive Director Transition
OCW Blog

Thu 21 Aug 2008 // That book costs what?!
Chicago Tribune

Wed 20 Aug 2008 // Welcome, Freshmen. Have an iPod.
NY Times

Wed 20 Aug 2008 // Reformers target high cost of print textbooks
AZcentral.com

Tue 19 Aug 2008 // Open Access textbooks, provincial ministers of education and Access Copyright
itWorldCanada

Mon 18 Aug 2008 // Online Sharing With Creative Commons
redOrbit

Thu 14 Aug 2008 // Rice U. Acquires Rights to Popular Textbook to Offer It Free Online
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Fri 01 Aug 2008 // Congress approves bill aimed at controlling college costs
USA Today

Fri 01 Aug 2008 // Turn your iPhone or iPod into a Portable University
Xconomy Boston

Thu 24 Jul 2008 // Experts Explore Open Learning Possibilities
This Day

Mon 21 Jul 2008 // Book Recommendations For Maths To Astrophysics?
Slashdot

Thu 17 Jul 2008 // Against net neutrality - sort of
Macleans.ca

Thu 10 Jul 2008 // More Educators Experimenting With ‘Open Content’
Education Week News

Wed 09 Jul 2008 // What's on the tube? Science videos
Nashua Telegraph

Wed 09 Jul 2008 // 10-250 Upgrades to Be Completed by Fall With New Seating, Audiovisual Equipment
The Tech (MIT)

Sun 06 Jul 2008 // Live (or not) from MIT, it's TechTV
The Boston Globe

Tue 17 Jun 2008 // Who Needs a Professor When There's a Tutor Available?
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Wed 11 Jun 2008 // Government 2.0
Sillicon Republic (Ireland)

Wed 11 Jun 2008 // Highlights for High School response 'overwhelming'
MIT News

Fri 06 Jun 2008 // What’s Missing From ‘Open’ Courses
Inside Higher Ed

Fri 06 Jun 2008 // Education for the 21st Century Knowledge Society
New Zealand

Wed 28 May 2008 // Lerman to become MIT's vice chancellor
MIT News

Tue 20 May 2008 // Educators, Activists, Entrepreneurs, and Lawyers Win Berkman Awards for Internet Innovation
PR Newswire

Wed 14 May 2008 // Open Educational Resources: Unlocking Knowledge to the Global Community
OCW Blog

Wed 14 May 2008 // Web & Where 2.0
Northern California Grantmakers

Wed 14 May 2008 // WorldWide Telescope Brings Space Exploration to Earth
PR Newswire

Wed 14 May 2008 // Call for papers… Open Educational Resources
Teaching Expertise

Wed 14 May 2008 // UN launches new training course to help Asian developing countries
UNESCO

Wed 14 May 2008 // iCue
NBC News

Wed 14 May 2008 // Carnegie Mellon University offering OLI Summer Workshops
Carnegie Mellon University

Tue 29 Apr 2008 // U-M receives grant to provide free and open, online electronic health professions educational materials
UMHS Newsroom

Mon 14 Apr 2008 // Numbers that can change the world
The Boston Globe

Mon 14 Apr 2008 // Lauer-Charlier promote implementing online database OpenCourse Ware
The Spectator (University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire)

Fri 04 Apr 2008 // College posts courses online
North Shore News

Tue 01 Apr 2008 // Cap College puts course material on Web for free
Canada.com - Global BC

Fri 28 Mar 2008 // Free Online College Courses Are Proliferating
The Wall Street Journal

Sat 22 Mar 2008 // Personal learning, research: a re-look
Hindu

Thu 20 Mar 2008 // Get Smart(er) With MIT OpenCourseWare
GeekSugar.com

Wed 19 Mar 2008 // Bringing a bit of MIT to Africa
MIT News

Wed 19 Mar 2008 // NCCE, TESSA Partner for Improved Teaching
This Day (Nigeria)

Thu 13 Mar 2008 // Michael Geist on E-publishing and the Law
blogTO

Mon 10 Mar 2008 // MIT, Elsevier Offer Free Content From More Than 2,000 Journals
MIT OpenCourseWare

Mon 10 Mar 2008 // Elsevier Agrees to Let MIT Use Bits of Journal Articles Online
Chronicle of Higher Education

Mon 10 Mar 2008 // Want more education? The Internet's an option
Richmond Times Dispatch

Fri 07 Mar 2008 // United Nations University Launches Online OpenCourseWare Portal
Innvations Report

Thu 06 Mar 2008 // Sree Advice On Free Online College Courses
WNBC

Thu 06 Mar 2008 // MIT physicists bask in the media limelight
MIT News

Thu 06 Mar 2008 // Education Web Site is First to Share Knowledge, Curriculum for Global Collaboration to Fight Climate Change
PRWeb

Wed 05 Mar 2008 // Baby Steps in Web 2.0 Education
RedOrbit

Tue 04 Mar 2008 // CeBIT 2008 - Opening Speech Steve Ballmer
automodilsport.com

Sat 01 Mar 2008 // New site sheds light on MIT's hidden art treasures
MIT News

Thu 28 Feb 2008 // Senate votes on technology
Spectator Eau Claire

Thu 28 Feb 2008 // Publish and Perish?
The Phoenix

Thu 28 Feb 2008 // UN University launches online OpenCourseWare portal
EurekAlert

Wed 27 Feb 2008 // Free college courses feed global hunger for learning
USA Today

Tue 26 Feb 2008 // Fulfilling the Promise of Open Content
Inside Higher Ed

Tue 26 Feb 2008 // Choosing the Best License for Wiki Content
TechNewsWorld

Thu 21 Feb 2008 // Age of 'open education' here
ZDNet Asia

Thu 21 Feb 2008 // For rock stars and professors, perform or perish
Yale Daily News

Wed 20 Feb 2008 // Open access to brilliant insights
Boston Globe

Wed 13 Feb 2008 // The Case for Open Access
The Harvard Crimson

Wed 13 Feb 2008 // A Quartet of Open Access Arguments
Dan Cohen's Digital Humanities Blog

Wed 13 Feb 2008 // Here's a big number
OpenFiction

Wed 13 Feb 2008 // Harvard Faculty Adopts Open-Access Requirement
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Wed 13 Feb 2008 // Sharing the riches of a Penn education
The Daily Pennsyvanian

Wed 13 Feb 2008 // Duke eyes possibility of more online offerings
Duke Chronicle

Wed 06 Feb 2008 // United Nations University launches OpenCourseWare Portal
UNESCO

Wed 06 Feb 2008 // Can a smart campus make its professors smart?
The Statesman

Tue 05 Feb 2008 // UN University opens web learning portal
VNUNet.com

Tue 05 Feb 2008 // MIT Orients Course Materials Online to K-12
Education Week News

Tue 05 Feb 2008 // United Nations University OCW
United Nations University OCW

Sat 02 Feb 2008 // Open Training Platform
UNESCO

Fri 01 Feb 2008 // Can OER Really Impact Higher Education and Human Development?
Terra Incognita

Fri 01 Feb 2008 // New Blog Aggregator Dedicated to OER
oerblogs.org

Fri 01 Feb 2008 // On My Mind
Forbes

Fri 01 Feb 2008 // Take Harvard Classes, And Without All the Harvard People
Wired News

Fri 01 Feb 2008 // Tecnológico de Monterrey OCW Site
Tecnológico de Monterrey

Tue 29 Jan 2008 // South Africa: Plea to put educational tools online
Tendersinfo

Tue 29 Jan 2008 // Coalition Wants Ed. Materials Available Online for Free
Education Week News

Tue 29 Jan 2008 // Teachers, Students, Web Gurus, and Foundations Launch Campaign to Transform Education, Call for Free, Adaptable Learning Materials Online
PR Newswire

Fri 25 Jan 2008 // From the Daily: Going Public
Michigan Daily

Fri 25 Jan 2008 // Florida adopts open-content reading platform
eSchool News

Thu 24 Jan 2008 // Students, faculty to consider 'iTunes U'
Observer Online

Thu 24 Jan 2008 // Bill Gates
Forbes

Wed 23 Jan 2008 // Wikipedia, Ubuntu founders back 'open education'
ZDNet UK

Wed 23 Jan 2008 // In age of e-learning, Yale’s peers open classrooms to public
Yale Daily News

Wed 23 Jan 2008 // Many New recommendations by National Knowledge Commission
IndiaEduNews.net

Wed 23 Jan 2008 // National Knowledge Commission report released
DailyINdia.com

Tue 22 Jan 2008 // International Call for Open Resources
Inside Higher Ed

Tue 22 Jan 2008 // Free the content!
ITWeb

Fri 18 Jan 2008 // Why Is There No Canadian MIT?
Michael Geist

Fri 18 Jan 2008 // A welcome smack in the face on open courseware
Abject Learning

Thu 17 Jan 2008 // Following MIT's lead, 'U' to add open course website
Michigan Daily

Tue 08 Jan 2008 // Elite universities discover the power of online video
IBLNews

Wed 02 Jan 2008 // A star in the classroom
Boston Globe

Wed 02 Jan 2008 // Get Your Lectures From MIT, For Free!
EFY Times

Wed 02 Jan 2008 // MIT OpenCourseWare
American Chronicle


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