Welcome to the first ever Open Education Week!  Open Education Week is taking place from 5-10 March 2012 online and in locally hosted events around the world.  The purpose of Open Education Week is to raise awareness of the open education movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. Participation in all events and use of all resources is free an open to anyone.

If you are new to open education, we recommend you start with the ABOUT OPEN

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

Check out the EVENTS AND WEBINARS schedule and join in – participation is open to everyone.

There are several ways to join the discussion about open education:

1. When Tweeting, use the hashtag #openeducationwk.  The live Open Education Week Twittter feed is displayed on the HOMEPAGE.
2. Enter your blog in your profile on this site, and post in your own personal blog using the tag openeducationwk. You don’t have to post inside this site only, but can use your own blog to share. If you give us your blog address, we are collecting all

See projects, presentations and virtual tours about what people around the world are doing in Open

Organizations from around the world participating in Open Education Week.

Browse resources and learn more about open education………

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The Support Centre for Open Resource in Education and the Open Education group