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To help contribute to the rapidly growing community of open learners, SkilledUp.com today launched the OpenU hub, featuring over 850 educational resources carefully curated from a myriad of sources.

Open Education Week, March 11-15, 2013, is a global event highlighting educational resources and opportunities that are freely and openly available to everyone, anytime, anywhere.

ISKME's OER Commons and Open Author translated into Arabic; including system for educators to save and share content, as well as to build, remix, and translate content for Arabic speakers and those who want to learn Arabic language and culture.

UCF launched two new free online courses to support teachers’ professional development. The first course covers IPR in lecturing materials. The second free course covers introducing blogging projects into the classroom.

BiologyCourses.co.uk is a new website containing open educational resources and taster materials for learners and teachers involved in the subject of Biology and Biology Courses.

ISKME appoints Mark Milliron, chancellor of WGU Texas, and Jonah Houston, senior designer at IDEO to Board. Current ISKME board member Lance Izumi, Director of Education Studies at Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, elected as Board Chair.

One hundred seventy-five teachers, innovators, edupreneurs, and policy makers with big ideas for transforming K-20 education are about to converge at the third annual Big Ideas Fest, Dec. 4 through 7, in Half Moon Bay, CA.

CourseWare Awards Announced at Annual Global Conference

University College Falmouth launches website making its teaching resources free to learners all over the world.

Talis, a sponsoring member of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT), launched the Talis Incubator for Open Education at the ALT Conference in September