Press and Websites that Feature the IEEE-SPS/Connexions Project

• IEEE Signal Processing Society Offers Free Educational Content

  March 17, 2011 -- The Institute: The IEEE Signal Processing Society has launched a repository for peer-reviewed lessons in the society's fields of interest.

• IEEE teams up with Connexions to deliver high-quality, peer-reviewed engineering OER

  December 3, 2010 -- Creative Commons: This collaboration is one of the first between a major professional society and an open educational resource provider. Connexions is one of the largest repositories of OER in the world, and all its materials are available under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. IEEE is the world's largest technical professional organization, with over 395,000 members.

• IEEE Signal Processing Society offers free educational content via Connexions

  December 1, 2010 -- Official Rice University Press Release: Rice University's Connexions and the IEEE Signal Processing Society announced the release this week of a broad collection of free, high-quality lessons that practicing engineers can use for their own education and career growth and that engineering instructors can mix and match to build customized courses, textbooks and study guides.

• Activity Report from the Signal Processing Education (SPEd) Technology Committee

  November 1, 2010 -- Doug Williams reports on the efforts of the SPEd Technical Committee and the official launch of the IEEE-SPS/Connexions Project.

• IEEE SPS: Your Professional Home

  November 2010 -- IEEE-SPS President, Mos Kaveh officially launches the partnership between IEEE-SPS and Connexions, stating that "after much groundwork , this month we make this collaboration official under the auspices of the Signal Processing Education Technical Committee."

• Taking Advantage of Unexpected Opportunities

  November 2007 -- IEEE-SPS President (2006-2007) remarks on the possibilities of collaboration with Connexions.

• IEEE-SPS and Connexions - An Open Access Education Collaboration

  November 2007 -- Connexions founder, Richard Baraniuk expands on IEEE-SPS President, Al Hero's remarks in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.