Agenda
Current OCW activities in Japan
Yoshimi Fukuhara
Professor, Keio University
Secretary-General, JOCW
• Brief review of OpenCourseWare
• Opencourseware Activities in Japan
• Keio Opencourseware
• Voices of Participants in Keio Univ.
• Future Plan
• Announcement
y-fuku@dmc.keio.ac.jp
Brief History of OCW
What’s Opencourseware(OCW)
• OCW:
– Is a publication of U’s course materials
– Does not require any registration
– Is not a degree-granting or certificate-granting
activity
– Does not provide access to U’s faculty
• MIT
– 2001 Project started
– 2002.9 OCW site was launched with first 50
courses
– 2005.12 1250 of 1800 courses have been
published on the site
• Original from MIT OCW site and modified a bit
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Total OCW Courses Available,
10/03 - 6/05
• 2004.11 Planning started in each univ.
• 2005.5 Six Universities launched their
OCW site and established JOCW Alliance
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History of JOCW
Other OCWs
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JOCW
• Objectives
– To enhance every member university’s project
– To address several common problems including
copyright and intellectual property
JOCW site
• Distinctions
– First-rate six universities are the founding
members of the JOCW
– Every member university carries out its OCW
project at a university level not a
department/faculty level.
– Currently three universities have joined
– NIME is a supporting member
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Keio Opencourseware
OSAKA University Open Courseware
KYOTO-U OPENCOURSEWARE
TOKYO TECH OPENCOURSEWARE
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UT OpenCourseWare
Waseda University
OpenCourseWare
Nagoya University
OPENCOURSEWARE
The roles of JOCW
It’s New!!
• We, Keio University, are honored to serve
as the secretariat of the JOCW.
• The JOCW as a nation-wide alliance is
addressing several common problems,
including copyright and intellectual
property issues
• In order to support the sophisticated use of
OCW, National Institute of Multimedia
Education introduced a metadata scheme
(LOM: Learning Object Metadata).
• At present, there seems to be more than
10,000 unique users who regularly visit the
JOCW Web site.
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Keio Opencourseware
Visits to the JOCW site
I.
Where from?
Number of Visits
50%
50000
45000
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Foreign Access
Japan
United States
Unknown
40000
Motivation
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41%
9%
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30000
52%
3%
4%
25000
4%
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JOCW
4%
20000
United States
Taiwan
Brazil
Canada
Australia
Germany
United Kingdom
Italy
Singapore
India
Netherlands
France
Malaysia
Belgium
Turkey
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Keio Opencourseware
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To raise our academic/non-academic staff’s
awareness of open educational resources
To join a successful activity in order to develop
our open educational activities efficiently
Current Status
13 courses have been published
One unique course about Keio founder, Yukichi
Fukuzawa, is about to be published
All of the first published courses are in
humanity and social science disciplines
At present, there seems to be more than
8,000 unique users who regularly visit the
Keio OCW Web site.
At least 20% of the unique users are nonJapanese people.
Keio OCW Course List
III. Challenges
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Japanese/Asian related courses have been
mainly selected
Every course is published in both English and
Japanese
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Faculty members’ voices
in OCW
• Web publication and digitalization
– It is difficult for individual academic staff to
provide open educational resources, so OCW
seems to be one of the best projects in this
context.
– It seems to be more important to provide
educational information to the general public
than to prevent any information from being
used in a wrong way.
– OCW enables us to accumulate intellectual
assets by digitally archiving a variety of lecture
information
– By participating in the OCW project, we can reorganize the structure of our educational
materials
Future targets
• Keio’s role as one of the leading
universities in Japan
– We will publish several unique and valuable
course contents worldwide, for example some
lecture information from humanity and social
science departments.
• The expansion of multimedia
– Streaming lecture videos
• The acceleration of digitalizing educational
information
– Accumulation of global standard compliant
database
Faculty members’ voices
in OCW
• International contribution
– I would be most satisfied with knowing
that some people, who live in a country
where I would never visit in my life, use
the information of my lectures.
– OCW provides Japanese academics with
the valuable opportunity to publish their
educational information internationally
– It might be necessary to connect OCW
with some e-Learning projects in order
to develop educational opportunities.
Announcement
• International Conference on
Opencourseware 2006 in Kyoto
• April 20, 2006
• Kyoto University
• Open to the public, free
• Pre-registration is required
• URL:
– http://ocw.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/conferenceoutline.htm
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End
• Thank you very much
for your attention!
• Please visit our site
– JOCW: http://www.jocw.jp/
– Keio Opencourseware:
http://ocw.dmc.keio.ac.jp/
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