Though colleges and universities are accredited by large institutions both regionally and nationally, they often have very different methods for developing programs, approving courses (new and change of delivery format), and for assessment. Sadly, there is a very large portion of them that have yet to get a handle on building assessment into program design so that it makes sense,… (more…)
Monthly Archives: June 2010
- A critical look at education: assessment of learning, institutional assessments, and assessments of the education system
Open Education Week: March 5 – 10, 2012
The OpenCourseWare Consortium announces the first annual Open Education Week from March 5-10, 2012. Open Education Week is a global event that seeks to raise awareness about the benefits of free and open sharing in education, especially Open Educational Resources (OER). OER are high-quality, free and open educational materials that offer opportunities for people anywhere in the world to share, use and reuse. “The vision of the open education movement is 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.-
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