Opencourseware

What is Courseware

Open Courseware is Courseware made available to the public for free.

An OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 100 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 mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.

The Goals of the Consortium Extend the reach and impact of opencourseware by encouraging the adoption and adaptation of open educational materials around the world. Foster the development of additional opencourseware projects. Ensure the long-term sustainability of opencourseware projects by identifying ways to improve effectiveness and reduce costs. Participation Requirements In order to participate in Consortium activities, institutions must have committed to publishing, under the institution's name, materials from at least 10 courses in a format that meets the agreed-upon definition of an opencourseware. Organizations that do not publish their own content but whose activities further Consortium goals—such as translation and distribution affiliates—also participate in Consortium activities.

To be open Courseware is must be Courseware. To be Courseware it must contain the material required to master the subject being taught. There have been many open Courseware offerings over the years.

What is Not

MIT OpenCourseWare 's eleged open courseware turned out to not actualy be an open Courseware project. MIT unwilling to offend the Textbook publishers (MIT itself is a Textbook Publisher) chose to not post the full lectures and course content of all but a few courses.

MIT does not meet the OpenCourseWare Consortium's minimum standards for CourseWare.

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OpenCourseWare Consortium [1]