Slides prepared by Linda Mah.

Contents in the following slides are quoted, paraphrased and synthesized from the book, The World Is Open.

The url link to pictures and media are given if applicable.

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

MIT IN EVERY HOME

OPENER #4: LEVERAGED RESOURCES AND OPENCOURSEWARE

WHAT IS OCW?

WHAT IS OCW

OPEN ACCESS TO UNIVERSITY RESOURCES

LECTURE NOTES

COURSE SYLLABI

SAMPLE TESTMEDIA FILES

COURSE SCHEDULES

CONTENT FOR ANYONE

free

free

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HOW TO ACCESS.....

You need internet connection

Anywhere, anytime, with any gadget......

HOW DID OCW BEGAN?

MIT OCW HISTORY

Charles Vest:

Apr 4, 2001

10 years project

(2001 – 2011)

Completed

Nov 28, 2008

2009: 1,890 FREE

classes online

200 mirror sites

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/816

MORE HISTORY.........

All courses have Web presence

1 million visitors per

month

35 million people

explored MIT’s online

course

50% are corporate

self learners

A revolution for other

universities to emulate

BRAIN CHILD OF OCW

“Toss out a brick to

attract jade”

MIT – 1st to

give away

content

FOC

Prof. Dick

Yue

MIT tossed out more than 1,800 courses and attracted mountains of jade

http://web.mit.edu/vfrl/www/people/yue.html

MOUNTAINS OF JADE.......

new partners, users, onlookers, and well wishes

practical feedback & never ending supply of information

flattened education and raised $30 million of funds

OCW:

WHAT IS THE IMPACT ON EDUCATION?

OCW: A REVOLUTION IN EDUCATION

“MIT created “ a new game altogether”

MIT in Pakistan:

MIT in India:

MIT courses in Chinese, Spanish,Portuguese, Thai, French, German,Vietnamese and Ukrainian

CORE in China

Over 100 universities offered OCW in 2008

OOPS in Taiwan

Yale joined in 2007

NPTEL offered by IIT

MORE OCW DEVELOPMENT

WHAT IS OOPS AND CORE?

Lucifer Chu:

Founder of OOPS

Symbol of WE-ALL-LEARN motto

Volunteers translate

MIT courses & other OCW

projects into

Chinese

CORE:translated Chinese to

English

3rd organization to have translation affiliate agreement

with MIT

500,000 visitors in 2005; 1.9 million in 2008

Online help for May 12, 2008 earthquake survivors in Sichuan,

China

2,200 volunteers from over 22 countries

MORE OOPS STORIES...

THE DOMINO EFFECT OF MIT

By 2008; over 100 universities offering 5,000 free OCW online classes

OCW projects following MIT heels include:

MIT

John Hopkins Bloomberg School ofPublic Health

Utah StateUniversity Tufts

University

INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES INCLUDE..

Japan OpenCourseWareConsortium

Vietnam Fulbright

Economics OCW

Rai Foundation

Colleges OCWIndia

CONTINUED EFFECT.....

2007: Yale University OCW courses broadcasted in China and India

IIT (Indian Institutes of Technology) started NPTEL, uploaded to YouTube

What will happen when universities from countries such as Germany, Singapore,

France or Australia jump in?

OCW – our right to

education

OCW – OUR RIGHT TO

EDUCATION

Current content not credentialed, but provides OER.

John Willinsky – “Access to knowledge

is a basic human right”

“Everyone has a right to education”

WHAT’S THE FUTURE FOR OCW?

THE FUTURE

OCW for primary & secondary education

K-12 education offering OCW

Education: open & accessible to anyone

Govt. to index and market courses

OpencourseWare Consortium and OER

Commons

OERderves from Hewlett Foundation

Open Knowledge Foundation

OED and OpenCulture may

be the future

P2PU (Peer-to-Peer University) launched

MORE OF THE FUTURE .....

EDUCATION IN THE 21st CENTURY

Knowledge no longer need to be purchased

OCW is the key to life long learning

We are all learners of life

HOW CAN I APPLY THESE RESOURCES?

The websites every school teacher should know:

WHAT RESOURCES CAN I USE?

http://teachertube.com/

THANK YOU