I survived OCWC Global 2011

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OCWC Global 2011 ended on Friday, and I survived!

I was co-chair of the conference with Steve Carson from MIT OpenCourseWare.

On Friday, we successfully completed OCWC Global 2011. We had 270 registrants, and the high attendance was ~230 for Wednesday morning. Attendees came from all over the world, including large contingents from Indonesia, Japan, Korea and the UK.

We put together a pretty good line up of distinguished speakers:

• Tim O’Reilly, CEO, O’Reilly Media
• Salman Khan, Khan Academy
• Susan Hockfield, President, MIT
• Charles M. Vest, President Emeritus, MIT
• Lawrence S. Bacow, President, Tufts University and Chancellor Emeritus, MIT
• Robert A. Brown, President, Boston University and Provost Emeritus, MIT
• Catherine M. Casserly, CEO, Creative Commons

Here’s some of the media coverage for the event.

Twitter

• #ocwcglobal
• #ocwglobal

Blog Posts

Muramatsu, B. (2011, May 6). Consortium celebrates 10 years of OpenCourseWare. Retrieved May 6, 2011 from MIT News website: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/ocw-consortium-10-years.html (I am not responsible for the factual errors. Those errors were introduced by the “fact checking” and “style editing” conducted by the MIT News Office. It really is hard to get the news to report the right thing, even if you write the damn article yourself.)

Watters, A. (2011, May 4). Tim O’Reilly On What OpenCourseWare Can Learn From the Open Source Movement. Retrieved May 6, 2011 from ReadWriteWeb website: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/tim_oreilly_on_what_opencourseware_can_learn_from.php

Watters, A. (2011, May 5). 10 Open Education Resources You May Not Know About (But Should). Retrieved May 6, 2011 from KQED Mind/Shift website: http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/05/10-open-education-resources-you-may-not-know-about-but-should/

M&C. (2011, May 6). Director of Education Anka Mulder is president of the OpenCourseWare Consortium. Retrieved May 6, 2011 from TU Delft website: ttp://www.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=ab3898e3-5320-48da-9c06-345ee32abfcf&lang=en

Education-portal Blog. (2011, May 4). Live From the OpenCourseWare Consortium Conference: Day 1. Retrieved May 6, 2011 from Education-portal.com website: http://education-portal.com/articles/Live_from_the_OpenCourseWare_Consortium_Conference_Day_1.html

Fast Company. (2011, April 20). Now May 2011. Retrieved May 8, 2011 from Fast Company website: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/155/now-may-2011.html

MIT 150. (2011, May 4). http://mit150.mit.edu/events/ocwc-global-2011-celebrating-10-years-opencourseware. Retreived May 8, 2011 from MIT 150 website: http://mit150.mit.edu/events/ocwc-global-2011-celebrating-10-years-opencourseware

Photos

Schwab, Robyn. (2011, May 6). OpenCourseWare Consortium Conference. Retrieved May 6, 2011 from Robyn Photography website: http://robynphotoblog.typepad.com/robynphoto/2011/05/ocwc2011.html

van Valkenburg, Willem. (2011, May). OpenCourseWare Consortium Global Conference 2011. Retrieved May 6, 2011 from Willem’s foto’s website: http://foto.e-learn.nl/v/ocwcglobal2011/

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