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
