OpenCourseWare: Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds
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 200 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 term ‘open educational resources’ was first adopted at UNESCO’s 2002 Forum on the Impact of Open Courseware for Higher Education in Developing Countries funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Folowing this the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) initiative to put all of the educational materials from its undergraduate- and graduate-level courses online, free and openly available to anyone, anywhere, by the end of the year 2007. The initiative has encouraged a number of other institutions to make their course materials available as open educational resources culminating in the formation of the OpenCourseWare Consortium.
You can find course materials by browsing individual OpenCourseWare sites or by searching across all courses (English-language versions) at The OpenCourseWare Consortium. OpenCourseWare Finder is another great place that help you in finding the course you are looking for.
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