OpenCourseWare Consortium
Building the Open Education Movement
In the early days of the open education movement in mid-2000s, a consortium of universities came together to form the OpenCourseWare Consortium. The consortium, primarily of universities publishing OpenCourseWare sites including MIT, Utah State University, Notre Dame, Tufts University, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, UC Irvine, the University of Tokyo, and others formed a 501c3 non-profit organization to promote the adoption and spread of open education. Since that time the OpenCourseWare Consortium grew to the Open Education Consortium and OE Global in the 2020s.
The OpenCourseWare consortium’s annual meetings coincided with the OpenEd Conferences organized by the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning, eventually growing to organizing their own activities worldwide.
For the OCW Consortium, I served on the founding Board of Directors developing the by-laws for the consortium and founding the 501c3 non-profit organization. In addition, I hosted the initial consortium meetings alongside the annual OpenEd Conferences.
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Utah State University
Center for Open and Sustainable Learning
2005-2008
Key Collaborators: Terri Bays (University of Notre Dame), Steve Carson (MIT)
Funding Source: William and Flora Hewlett Foundation