VU Wins International Opencourseware Award
The award committee of the Opensourceware consortium has selected the Virtual Universityof Pakistan’s Opencourseware site as the 2012 recipient of the Outstanding New Site Award for Opencourseware Excellence.
The opencourseware consortium is a US-based collaboration of higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.
The outstanding new site award is conferred annually by the Commetee and recognizes an outstanding institutional or affiliate sites launched during the previous calender year. The award was previously given to Univarsity of Sumatera Utara Opencourseware.
A representative of the Virtual University will attend the upcoming OCW Consortium meeting in Cambridge, UK to receive at a reception to be held in April 16, 2012.