Last week the yearly global conference of the OpenCourseWare Consortium happend in Hanoi Vietnam. There were more than 200 participants from all over the world. I must say that it was a great conference. I really enjoyed the sessions i attended and the good talks I had with other participants.

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During the conference I als wrote some tweets. For the record, below you see a complete list of my tweets of the conference.

• Anka and me arrived in Hanoi for the OpenCourseWare Conference #ocw
• Do I need to say more: http://tweetphoto.com/20938303
• HaLong Bay was trouwens fantastisch vandaag. 2 foto's ter illustratie: http://tweetphoto.com/20939853 http://tweetphoto.com/20939878
• Inmiddels al heel wat congresgangers gezien. De bekende gezichten zijn er natuurlijk #ocw>
• Because of Anka's early flight back home, I have to attend the #OCWC Board meeting on Thursday night
• RT @ocwsearch: Check out the new OCW Search page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/OCW-Search/113463228691107
• RT @ocwnews: Open Ed 2010 — The Seventh Annual Open Education Conference "The Call for Papers is open through May 15" http://bit.ly/a0FaFA>
• The #OCWC Conference has officially started.
• #OCWC10 Vietnam OCW started in 2005 with help of MIT, Ric University and Vietnam company
• There are 175 participants at the #OCWC10 conference
• RT @ocwnews: #ocwcnews Tweet the OCWC Global Conference at #ocw2010
• I'm ready for the presentation of Rober Schuwer #ocw2010
• @fagottissimo will talk About WikiWijs: a nation-wide initiative on OER #ocw2010
• #ocw2010 there were a lot of individual teachers working on OER in NL. WikiWijs tries to facilitate them
• #ocw2010 wikiwijs is a repository and a referatory. not all content is open and free
• #ocw2010 Challenge is to give the teachers the feeling that the platform is theirs
• #ocw2010 wikiwijs is a not a wiki. A wiki is mostly text and that was not what they wanted
• #ocw2010 WikiWijs uses open standards and open-source repository Fedora. for development they use Connexions
• I just became a member of the Twub for #ocw2010 at http://twubs.com/ocw2010
• #ocw2010 wikiwijs on quality: beyond 'wisdom of the crowds': peer review, quality mark and competent participants
• #ocw2010 Why should a teacher participate: reputation, proof of proficiency, support of current practice, teachers ask for digital material
• #ocw2010 wikiwijs has more that 50k visitors p/m. # of uploads is still very low
• #ocw2010 now presentation of John Hopkins about the synergy between OCW and distance learning programme
• #ocw2010 JH got some very nice results from their survey about the use of their OCW-content
• #ocw2010 JH OCW is used a lot for distance/online education
• RT @sharingnicely: MIT OCW: Interest in reducing cost by using existing services. Big savings by hosting video @ youtube #ocw2010
• Follow the Global OpenCourseWare Consortium Conference online: http://bit.ly/bPmjF5 #in #ocw2010>
• #ocw2010 Gary Matkin predicts that within 5 year all mayor universities have some form of OCW/OER
• I can't deny it: RT @fagottissimo: @wfvanvalkenburg and Brandon Muramatsu are the lucky ones showing off with an IPad #ocw2010>
• #ocw2010 it's difficult to get out ot the "Iron Triangle": balance between access, quality and cost
• #ocw2010 the presentation of Gary Matkin is already online on Slideshare: http://bit.ly/cYQsVl 
  
• Zoals vaak op conferentie bevriezen we binnen bijna terwijl het buiten boven de 30 graden is. Zelf met pak aan is het koud
• I'm very happy with my iPad, but I'm less happy with the internet connection we have at the conference #ocw2010
• RT @fagottissimo: Uploaded: presentation OCWC2010: Wikiwijs, a nation wide initiative http://slidesha.re/9rgl0C #ocw2010
• #ocw2010 Andy Lane will now present about OpenLearn: Past, present and future
• #ocw2010 OpenUK is a fully distance learning institution. They already had a lot of multimedia material before they started with OpenLearn
• #ocw2010 OpenLearn has multiple sites and also publish to YouTube, iTunesU, Facebook & SCORE
• #ocw2010 OpenLearn has an impact on recruitment, preparation and progression.
• #OCW2010 @bmuramatsu is now presenting project Greenfield. It's conducted by the MIT Office for Education Innovation and Technology
• @bmuramatsu: We're at MIT, but not MIT OCW
• #OCW2010 What might be possible with MIT OCW? download course, rss feed of new courses, ask a question
• #OCW2010 Videolectures.net and Academic Earth supports discussion/feedback for video
• #OCW2010 What do you wish were possible with MIT OCW?
• #OCW2010 wishes for MIT OCW: rank, comments on content, translate content, localisation, tag content, notifications, get credits
• #OCW2010 OEIT developed a custom copy of MIT OCW: http://bit.ly/cHnHGN with enhancements
• #OCW2010 1 mini-project: Customizable Playlist for Video. They did an example with Walter Lewin's Physics Video
• #OCW2010 They experimented with a new video player: SpokemMedia Player
• RT @ocwnews: Conference agenda and list of abstracts updated on the conference website. http://conference.ocwconsortium.org #ocw2010
• #OCW2010 2 mini-project: Integrated Recommender. It suggests other courses based on the content of the course
• #OCW2010 Plagiarism is Good™ Revisited: http://bit.ly/bNXF3b
• #OCW2010 It was a great workshop of @bmuramatsu >> interesting to see what we can do with it at http://ocw.tudelft.nl
• #ocw2010 Session are done for today. Now it's time for the reception and diner
• RT @bmuramatsu: Just uploaded 'Project Greenfield: A New Way of thinking about OCW' to SlideShare. http://slidesha.re/db7gvC #ocw2010
• In a couple of minutes the programme of the second day of the #OCW2010 conference will start.
• #ocw2010 "Knowledge is meant to be shared"
• #ocw2010 OCWC has 6 staff members, spread out over the world
• #ocw2010 the #OCW newsletter is translated in 8 different languages
• #ocw2010 The monthly webinars are available on the OCW youtube channel: http://bit.ly/b0fNJa
• #ocw2010 Next year we are celebrating 10 year of OpenCourseWare in Boston, 4-6 May 2011
• #ocw2010 This year's theme is "Community & Impact"
• RT @wfvanvalkenburg: #ocw2010 The new OCW-website looks really great. When will it launch? >> It will launch June 1st
• #ocw2010 Now keynote of Hall Plotkin. He's working for the US Department of Education
• #ocw2010 If you want to have your OCW-content used in the US, it has to apply to their accessibility rules
• #ocw2010 Now presentation of Connexions (cnx.org): Create Globally, Educate Locally
• #ocw2010 2+2=3 in a collaborative world according to Joel Thierstein
• #ocw2010 We should all use CC-0 for our OpenCourseWare content: http://bit.ly/QLxLK
• #ocw2010 Enterprise Rhaptos is the software that powers Connexions: http://bit.ly/drYSwP
• RT @bmuramatsu: Archived tweets from #ocw2010 http://www.twapperkeeper.com/hashtag/ocw2010>
• #ocw2010 The board meeting will start in a couple of minutes. I have to sit in, because Anka will leave early
• #ocw2010 Steve Carson is now officially re-elected as President of the OpenCourseWare Consortium Board of Directors
• #ocw2010 Last day of the conference. Unfortunately I will only attend the keynote. I'm flying out today
• #ocw2010 3 things members of the consortium should contribute: content, rss and dues
• RT @bmuramatsu: Just uploaded 'Opening Up IIHS Video with SpokenMedia' to SlideShare. http://slidesha.re/avngHY #ocw2010
• #ocw2010 OER is part of a wider "open agenda", works across educational sectors and is a global movement
• #ocw2010 Report of research on open education Malcolm referenced: http://bit.ly/3bR7hW (pdf)
• #ocw2010 open source software, open standards, open access, open data, open education resources, open science and open innovation
• RT @jennymgray Moodle for OpenLearn http://slidesha.re/9Dlsdp presentation slides on slideshare thanks for the suggestion @tom4cam. #ocw2010