OCWC Competition
Design contest – Create a logo for the Open Education Week, get your work seen around the world and win £1000
Overview
The OCWC (OpenCourseWare Consortium see http://www.ocwconsortium.org/en/aboutus) is an organisation dedicated to making educational resources freely available for everyone around the world and they are organising the first ever Open Education Week in March 2012.
The ALTO project (http://blogs.arts.ac.uk/alto/) at the UAL is part of the worldwide open education movement and invites students of the UAL to design a logo for Open Education Week, which takes place in March next year. This is a chance for UAL students to be involved in an industry standard design brief and win a $1000 cash prize. It is open to all UAL students, and we are hoping that teachers of graphics and design related subjects will pass this onto their students for great opportunity to gain experience, exposure as well as the chance to win a cash prize.
Below is the project brief:
- Create a Logo for Open Education Week
- The words “open education week” should be written under/over/next to it.
- While “open education week” will be translated into other languages, the English version can be part of the logo design.
- The color selection is up to the designer, and will drive the colors used on the website and in related publicity.
- The logo may be trademarked by the OCWC to prevent commercial exploitation, so entrants must be prepared to agree to this as a condition of entering the competition
- Please submit your logo idea to alto@arts.ac.uk by December 1st 2011 as a pdf or jpeg at 300 dpi
- Please contact alto@arts.ac.uk with any questions
Evaluation of entries:
The winning designs will be selected by the Open Education Week planning committee from eligible entries.
- Winners will be announced in December
More details about Open Education Week:
Open Education Week strives to raise awareness of the open education movement to the general public by highlighting programs, projects and resources around the world. The week will feature presentations, live discussions, webinars, downloadable information, overviews of different open education efforts around the world, and support for institutions and individuals to run open educational awareness events locally. We will have a website (www.openeducationweek.org <http://www.openeducationweek.org> ) where people can go to find out more information, download presentations and materials, or join discussions and webinars.
Open Education Week and Open Education Background:
Open Education represents a shift in teaching and learning to incorporate the basic value of open sharing. Open Education begins with Open Educational Resources – educational materials that are freely and openly shared, allowing others to use, share and modify them to suit different teaching and learning needs. Open education also incorporates new modes of learning based on shared materials, for example, building peer study groups that use openly shared materials, or programs for self-learners that allow anyone to benefit from high quality educational materials without registering for classes at a university. Open educational practice opens higher education to a greater portion of the population, allows students to supplement their instruction with free and open material, brings resources to faculty to improve their instructional practice, and provides a means for people to teach and learn in new ways, wherever and whenever they like.
Open Education Week strives to raise awareness of this movement to the general public by highlighting programs, projects and resources around the world. The week will feature presentations, live discussions, webinars, downloadable information, overviews of different open education efforts around the world, and support for institutions and individuals to run open educational awareness events locally. We will have a website (www.openeducationweek.org) where people can go to find out more information, download presentations and materials, or join discussions and webinars.
Read more .... http://blogs.arts.ac.uk/alto/ocwc-competition/
Examples of open education projects and materials:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/oer
http://www.col.org/resources/crsMaterials/Pages/OCW-OER.aspx
This event, OCWC Competition, by ALTO UAL & OCWC is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
