Open Courseware

What is it?

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The OpenCourseWare movement, begun at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2002, has now spread to some 120 other universities worldwide and aims to disperse knowledge far beyond the ivy-clad walls of elite campuses to anyone who has an Internet connection and a desire to learn.

Intended as an act of "intellectual philanthropy," OpenCourseWare (OCW) provides free access to course materials such as syllabi, video or audio lectures, notes, homework assignments, illustrations, and so on. So far, by giving away their content, the universities aren't discouraging students from enrolling as students. Instead, the online materials appear to be only whetting appetites for more."

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By the end of this year, the contents of all 1,800 courses taught at one of the world's most prestigious universities (MIT) will be available online to anyone in the world, anywhere in the world. Learners won't have to register for the classes, and everyone is accepted.

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Consortium on Open Courseware - http://ocwconsortium.org/index.html

Find a comprehensive list of participating universities here.

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A partial list of participating institutions:

· MIT OpenCourseWare

· Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

· Tufts University

· Utah State University

· University of Notre Dame

· University of California, Irvine

· Carnegie Mellon

· CORE OCW (China)

· FETP OCW (Vietnam)

· Japan OCW Alliance

· Oops OCW (Taiwan)

· ParisTech OCW

· Universia OCW (Spanish/Portuguese)