OpenCourseWare: It’s not just MIT anymore!
utah state university
brandon muramatsu, tom caswell, shelley henson center for open and sustainable learning
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The OpenCourseWare (OCW) movement seeks to eduCommons is a freely available, open source, OpenOCW is a place where individual faculty
encourage universities worldwide to freely share OpenCourseWare management system designed members can share their openly licensed course
their course materials via the Internet. The to make it easy for institutions to implement and materials. This enables individual faculty to
OpenCourseWare approach works in harmony manage an OpenCourseWare site. This so ware participate in the OpenCourseWare movement even
with national and international copyright law to helps institutions produce, quality assurance if their institution chooses not to maintain its own
allow authors to retain copyright of their check, and publish course materials. By using OpenCourseWare site. OpenOCW will be separated
intellectual property while giving users permission eduCommons, institutions will also have direct by university and by course to allow contributing
to use, adapt, and redistribute their teaching access to many of the innovative, cross-OCW site faculty members the ability to customize their own
materials for non-commercial purposes. There are tools currently under development. Institutions courses (e.g., brand the area with their university logo
now over 100 higher education institutions and currently using eduCommons include Notre Dame, and color scheme). OpenOCW is the next step in
associated organizations worldwide building and the Open University of the Netherlands, Novell, making OpenCourseWare available to everyone who
supporting OpenCourseWare sites. Universidad de Monterrey, and many more. wants to contribute.
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