Open Education Week Event in the Netherlands

The OpenCourseWare Consortium is organising the first annual Open Education Week from March 5 – 10, 2012. Open Education Week is a global event, raising 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.

OpenEducationWeek Event 7th of March

Delft University of Technology, SURF and Open Universiteit in the Netherlands strongly support Open Education Week and organised an event for policy makers within Higher Education in Europe. Here you find the recordings, video's and photo's of the event. Ther is also a report available from the event.

Recording of event

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Full Recording	Halbe Zijlstra	Anka Mulder
Wikiwijs	Panel discussion	Neelie Kroes

Photo's of the event

More photos here.

Media Coverage

Before and after the event we got some coverage in the media and on blogs. We made an overview.

Twitter

The hashtag used during the event was #OEW12NL. We made a page with the tweets.

Organisation

The organisation is done by three organisations:

• Delft University of Technology (Willem van Valkenburg)
• SURF Foundation (Hester Jelgerhuis)
• Open Universiteit (Robert Schuwer)

Contact

For more information you can contact:

• Willem van Valkenburg: w.f.vanvalkenburg@tudelft.nl or 31 15 2786825