Online Learning - OpenCourseWare (OCW)

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) initiated OpenCourseWare (OCW) in 1999, as part of a new educational movement, to provide free access to course content online. Since MIT’s inauguration many other institutes of higher education have followed suit, offering collections of lecture notes, videos, practice sets, and other course materials that are used in the teaching of subjects at the collegiate level. 

OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a free resource that is available through the Internet and is limitless in its applications.  Educators may use OCW sites for their personal professional growth, as well as to develop materials for their students.  Students and self-learners may draw upon the materials as a means for self-study or to supplement their understanding of myriad topics.

CARNEGIE MELLON'S OPEN LEARNING INITIATIVE (OLI) - http://www.cmu.edu/oli/
Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative (OLI) provides online courses to learn a subject at an introductory college level.

JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH OPENCOURSEWARE (OCW) - http://ocw.jhsph.edu/
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's OPENCOURSEWARE (OCW) project provides access to the school's most popular courses about the obstacles to the public's health and their potential solutions.

MIT OPENCOURSEWARE - http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) provides an extensive array of courses. Currently MIT OCW has 1,550 courses published and intends to make public every undergraduate and graduate course. Additionally, MIT OCW has formally partnered with three organizations that are translating MIT OCW course materials into Spanish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.

 

OPENCOURSEWARE CONSORTIUM - http://www.ocwconsortium.org/index.html
The OpenCourseWare (OCW) Consortium provides a search engine for more than 100 higher education institutions and associated organizations of open educational content using a shared model.

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THE SOFIA PROJECT -http://sofia.fhda.edu/
The SOFIA (Sharing of Free Intellectual Assets) project is an open content initiative which encourages the free exchange of community college-level materials on the World Wide Web.

Tufts University OpenCourseWare - http://ocw.tufts.edu/

Tufts OpenCourseWare is part of a new educational movement initiated by MIT that provides free access to course content for everyone online. Tufts' initial course offerings demonstrate the University's strength in the life sciences in addition to its multidisciplinary approach, international perspective and underlying ethic of service to its local, national and international communities.

 

UTAH STATE OPENCOURSEWARE – http://ocw.usu.edu/
Utah State OpenCourseWare is a collection of educational material used within their formal campus courses.

 

webcast.berkeley - http://webcast.berkeley.edu/index.php

Every semester, UC Berkeley webcasts select courses and events for live viewing and on-demand replay over the Internet.  The webcasts were selected according to criteria which includes video capture capability in the classroom, demand, and quality of technical production. Courses that have historically embraced webcast technology and integrated it into their coursework are also favored.

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