Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
Open Sharing, Global Benefits
Steve Carson
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Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
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Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
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Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
The Consortium
• A global consortium, including (among others):
– China
– France
– India
– Japan
– Spain
– Taiwan
– Thailand
– United Kingdom
– United States
– Venezuela
– Vietnam
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Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
The Consortium
Austria
University of Klagenfurt
China
China Open Resources for Education
• Beijing Jiao Tong University
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Beijing Normal University
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Central Radio and TV University
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Central South University
• Dalian University of Technology
• Peking University
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Sichuan University
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Tsinghua University
• Xi’an Jiao Tong Universit
• Zhejiang University
• Plus 150 others
France
ParisTech OCW
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Agronomie
• Arts et Métiers
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Chimie Paris
• Eaux et Forets
• Ecole des Mines de Paris
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Ecole Polytechnique
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Physique-Chimie France
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Ponts et Chausse
• Statistiques et Economie
• Techniques Avance
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Telecom Paris
Hungary
Eotvos Lorand University
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Japan
Japan OCW Consortium
• Hokkaido University
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Keio University
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Kyoto University
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Kyushu University
• Nagoya University
• Osaka University
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Tokyo Institute of Technology
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University of Tokyo
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Waseda University
United Nations University
Netherlands
Open Universiteit Nederland
Spain and Portugal
Universia OCW
• Universidad Alicante
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Universidad Aveiro
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Universidad Barcelona
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Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
• Universidad Islas Baleares
• Universidad Jaume I
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Universidad Murcia
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Universidad Oviedo
• Univ. Politécnica de Madrid
• Univ. Politécnica de Valencia
• Universidad Rovira i Virgili
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Univ. Santiago de Compostela
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Universidad Sevilla
South Africa
University of the Western Cape
Open Sharing, Global Benefits
Peru
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
United Kingdom
Fahamu
Open University
United States
Defense Acquisition University
Harvard Law School, Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michigan State University
Tufts University
University of Michigan School of Information
University of Notre Dame
Utah State University
Utah Valley State College
Weber State University
Wheelock College
Venezuela
Universidad Central de Venezuela
Vietnam
Fulbright Economics Teaching Program
Vietnam OpenCourseware
Affiliates
Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System
Universia Spanish & Portuguese Translations
WiderNet Project eGranary Digital Library
African Virtual University
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Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
The Consortium
• Mission: To advance education and empower people worldwide through OpenCourseWare
• Members and affiliates in:
– Africa
– Asia
– Europe
– North America
– South America
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Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
The Consortium
• Ensure long-term sustainability of OpenCourseWare projects
• Extend the reach and impact of OpenCourseWare
• Foster the development of additional OpenCourseWare projects
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Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
The Consortium
Sustainability
• Define sustainability and develop research agenda
• Share best practices
• Embed open sharing in academic practice
Reach & Impact
• Develop OCWC portal
• Develop myOCW site
• Coordinate alternate distribution channels
More OCWs
• Support new members
• Form regional recruitment working groups
• Formalize and promote
OCWC conferences
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Tools
Best Practices
Community
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Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
The Consortium
• To participate in OCW Consortium activities, institutions:
– Commit to publish, under the institution or organization’s name, materials consistent with definition of
“OpenCourseWare”
– Pledge to work with the other members to develop standards to promote consistency in quality and presentation across OCW projects
• For more information on participation requirements, contact Stephen Carson, at 1-617-253-1250 or feedback@ocwconsortium.org
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Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
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Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
Participation Benefits
• Listing on Consortium portal at http://ocwconsortium.org
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Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
Participation Benefits
• Access to a community of shared practice
– Online collaborations
– Biannual Consortium meetings
• September 2006 in Utah, U.S.A.
– USU/COSL hosting
– September 26-29, 2006
• April/May 2007 in Spain (tentative)
– Universia hosting
– April/May 2007
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Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
Participation Benefits
• Collaboration wiki
• eduCommons publishing tool
• “How To” sites
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Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
Participation Benefits
University of Notre Dame OCW
• Creating an OCW site:
– Implemented in a matter of months
– Uses the open source eduCommons tool
• “EduCommons has the great advantage of having been designed for an OCW project from the ground up,which means that the system is aligned with the same principles of open sharing that motivate OCW.”
— Dr. Terri Bays, Project Director for Notre Dame OCW
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Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
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Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
Outcomes
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Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
Outcomes
Adam Adamu
• Medical student in Scotland
• Uses JHSPH OCW materials to:
– Study topics not taught at his school, such as psychiatric epidemiology
– Prepare for upcoming classes in his program
• “These days the world is a global village and I think that Johns
Hopkins is doing a great service to humanity.”
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Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
Outcomes
Dr. Hemalatha Thiagarajan
• Professor of Mathematics and Computer
Science at the National Institute of
Technology at Tiruchirappalli in India
• Uses MIT OCW materials as:
– A resource for complex illustrations to use in her lectures
– A reference for students interested in advanced topics
• “I need to show a lot of data structures, and I had to draw all of them. Here, with the click of a button, I can show something very neatly and beautifully done.”
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Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
Outcomes
Dr. Brett Shelton
• Faculty Member at Utah State University
• Published materials on USU OCW to:
– Make resources as widely available as possible
– Archive his materials in a permanent location
• “The idea of OCW is exciting: people are using these resources I provide in ways I have not imagined. The more my materials are used and circulated, the more I make a difference as an educator and researcher.”
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Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
Outcomes
MIT OpenCourseWare
• OCW site widely used by MIT community:
– 71% of MIT students, 59% of faculty faculty, 41% of alumni use MIT OCW
– 35% of freshmen aware of the site before applying say it influenced their choice of school
• “OCW was one of the main reasons why I decided to come [to
MIT]… I knew the contents of the courses, got to look at the materials, and I had a good understanding of what I was going to get… That's the reason why I ended [up] here, and not in
Stanford or Columbia.” — MIT student
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Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
Visit The OpenCourseWare Consortium portal at http://www.ocwconsortium.org
Contact the Consortium at: feedback@ocwconsortium.org
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Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
Outcomes
• Continues to be tremendous excitement about the
OpenCourseWare concept
• The vision of OpenCourseWare is achievable
• The impact of OpenCourseWare on global education will be significant
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Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
The Movement
• U.S. Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of
Higher Education in Spring 2006
• May 2005 U.S. Congressional testimony
• Keynotes – Scott McNealy, John Seely Brown, and Jim
Duderstadt, and Hans van Ginkel (Rector of United Nations
University)
• Multiple international awards
• “OpenCourseWare” appears as question on Jeopardy! in
January 2003
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Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
The Movement
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Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
The Movement
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Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
The Movement
• Other OCWs are beginning to appear – both in the United
States, and abroad – 52 in all around the world
Kyoto University of
Japan
Utah State University
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Johns Hopkins
University Bloomberg
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Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
The Movement
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Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
OCW Defined
A free and open digital publication of high-quality educational materials, organized as courses.
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Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
OCW Defined
• Is IP-cleared (nothing knowingly infringes the copyrights of others)
• Permits use, reuse, adaptation (derivative works), translation, and redistribution
• Offers the materials free of charge (often for non-commercial use only)
• Is universally accessible via the Web
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Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware.
OCW Defined
• Materials used for a course at the institution
• Typically classroom-based materials, including at least some elements of the following:
– Planning materials: Syllabus and calendar
– Subject matter: Lecture notes, reading lists
– Learning activities: Homework, exams, labs
• Often enhanced with multimedia elements such as video/audio lectures and simulations
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