Community

Announcements

Keep up to date with the latest announcements and communications from the OCW Consortium staff and board on our announcement blog.

Annual Conferences (Global Meeting)

Each year we hold a global meeting hosted by a member institution.  Information about current and past conferences can be found here.

Communities of Interest

We have created a dedicated website to host the activities and discussions around communities of interest, which fall outside of the specific focus of Consortium committees.  You can visit that site here.

Project Showcase

The Project Showcase is a place where we can learn about our members’ projects, both old and new. Newcomers to OCW will find it helpful to read about the ways early adapters got started and made their projects sustainable.

Toolkit

The OCW Toolkit Initiative seeks to collect in one place a portable kit of resources that have proven useful in getting OCW projects off the ground at a variety of institutions.  Included in the Toolkit are the following areas:

• Frequently Cited Concerns
• Making the Case - Internal Buy-In
• Selecting OCW-related Software and other Technology Issues
• Creating and Managing an OCW Team
• Relating OCW to Pedagogy
• Addressing Accessibility Issues
• Maintaining Intellectual Property
• Creating and Using Metadata
• Production, Annotation and Editing
• Internal Communications
• External Communications
• Evaluation and Metrics
• Translation and Localization

ACE Awards

The Awards for OpenCourseWare excellence will recognize outstanding individual contributions to the OCW/OER movement, exemplary OCW member sites and excellent individual course presentations.  A panel of voting members will select ACE site and course winners from finalists culled by the awards committee.  Individual winners will be selected by a vote of the board of directors.  Learn more on this page.

Getting Involved

The OCW Consortium hosts a variety of projects representing a wide range of time-lines and participation formats.  Learn more about them here.

Documents

The OCW Consortium publishes various documents, ranging from business-related documents to community resources.  You can access our document repository here.