All of the major media outlets in Taiwan were saying that September 9th of Year 99 of the Republic of China was going to be an auspicious day to get married, and quite a few people decided to do just that, to take advantage of that lucky “9999” sequence of numbers. The whole “marriage industry” was in overdrive. On the subject of “marriage”, on the eve of the centenary of the Republic, one could see many traces of old traditions, and many hints of changes to come.
Talking about open education resources the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) just has to be mentioned. MIT announced the MIT OpenCourseWare in the New York Times in April 2001 and the MIT OpenCourseWare website was opened in September 2009. The courses on the website increased from 50 in 2003 to 2000 in 2010.
The EFQUEL annual conference and forum was held September 8-10 in Lisbon, Portugal. The three day seminar attracted more than 100 experts who together sketched a clearer blueprint for digital learning quality in Europe.
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