OpenCourseWare

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OpenCourseWares are open access collections of educational materials. There are now over 50 universities worldwide offering OpenCourseWare. There are OpenCourseWare projects at MIT, Utah State University, Notre Dame, Johns Hopkins University, and schools in Asia and Europe. There is growing momentum among higher education institutions to participate in this "open" movement. Published by the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning. http://cosl.usu.edu

Official MIT OpenCourseWare 1800 Event Video

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Here is the official video for the MIT OpenCourseWare 1800 event: Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds: A Milestone Celebration. The event celebrates the publishing of the 1800th course on MIT OpenCourseWare. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at http://ocw.mit.edu

MIT OpenCourseWare: Highlights for High School launch video

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This video is for the launch of the Highlights for High School website (http://ocw.mit.edu/highschool/) at the MIT OpenCourseWare 1800 event "Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds: A Milestone Celebration". The Highlights for High School website features MIT OpenCourseWare materials that are most useful for high school students and teachers.

MIT reaches OpenCourseWare milestone

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MIT has recently completed a six-year project to put course materials from all MIT classes online. This short program explains the initiative and features MIT officers and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman talking about the importance of OCW.

MIT Open Courseware

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SP.660 Gender and Race, Work, and Public Policy http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Urban-Studies-and-Planning/11-237Spring-2005/CourseHome/index.htm Advanced Writing Seminar http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Urban-Studies-and-Planning/11-229Spring2004/CourseHome/index.htm Writing about race http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Writing-and-Humanistic-Studies/21W-742JWriting-About-RaceSpring2003/CourseHome/index.htm Writing and Experience: Exploring Self in Society http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Writing-and-Humanistic-Studies/21W-731-1Spring2004/CourseHome/index.htm Writing and experience http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Writing-and-Humanistic-Studies/21W-731-4Writing-and-ExperienceSpring2002/CourseHome/index.htm

Vietnam OpenCourseWare - VOCW

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Introduction to Vietnam OpenCourseWare - VOCW http://www.vocw.edu.vn

International Conference on Opencourseware 2006 in Kyoto

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Opening Session Opening Address of the President at Kyoto University Kazuo OIKE(President,Kyoto University)

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International Conference on Opencourseware 2006 in Kyoto

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Opening Session Introduction of OCW by MIT Anne H. Margulies(Executive Director, MIT OpenCourseWare)

MIT's OpenCourseWare Chinese website Founder Lucifer -2

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TRUSTMEDIA-TW invite you to see how Lucifer Chu living in the present http://www.trustmedia.com.tw/

MIT's OpenCourseWare Chinese website Founder Lucifer -1

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TRUSTMEDIA-TW invite you to see how Lucifer Chu living in the present http://www.trustmedia.com.tw/

OCW 27 MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content.

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http://ocw.mit.edu - on a Web site, must offer the works freely and openly to others under the same terms that MIT OpenCourseWare first made the works available to the user. Please refer to the MIT OpenCourseWare Privacy and Terms of Use page for our specific licensing terms and conditions. If you would like to use MIT OpenCourseWare course materials, but you are unsure whether your intended use qualifies as non-commercial use, please contact MIT OpenCourseWare at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/jsp/feedback.jsp. 16. How does MIT define non-commercial use? Non-commercial use means that users may not sell, profit from, or commercialize OpenCourseWare materials or works derived from them. That said, we have found that there are certain "gray areas" in interpreting the non-commercial provision of OCWs Creative Commons

OCW 33 MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content.

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http://ocw.mit.edu - information about how your institution can openly publish its course materials in an OpenCourseWare environment, please visit the OpenCourseWare Consortium site. 19. What are the technical requirements for viewing MIT OpenCourseWare course materials? To best view and use the sites, MIT OpenCourseWare has adopted the following guidelines: • Our course sites work on the Macintosh, Unix, and Windows platforms. • Although higher-speed connections are preferable, slower connections, such as 28.8 kbps modems, should allow users to view most materials on the sites; however, downloading materials will take a longer period of time. MIT OpenCourseWare has tested the course sites with the following browsers: -4- • Internet Explorer version 6.0+ (Windows) • Safari version

OCW 22 MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content.

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http://ocw.mit.edu - approved these translations, and MIT and MIT OpenCourseWare makes no representations or warranties of any kind concerning the translated materials, express or implied, including, without limitation, warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, or the absence of errors, whether or not discoverable. MIT OpenCourseWare bears no responsibility for any inaccuracies in translation. Any inaccuracies or other defects contained in this material, due to inaccuracies in language translation, are the sole responsibility of [YOUR INSTITUTION] and not MIT OpenCourseWare." 13. How do I contact a specific member of the MIT Faculty? MIT OpenCourseWare is intended as a publication

OCW 178 MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content.

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http://ocw.mit.edu - content" below. 4 MIT OCW provides installation and updating support for some mirror sites; other have been published on the web independent of any assistance from MIT OCW.. MIT OCW Evaluation Findings June 2006 5 Source: WebTrends 7 and Translation Affiliate Reporting Figure 1. Monthly visits to MIT OpenCourseWare content, 10/2003-12/2005 Direct access to ocw.mit.edu During the current evaluation period, 5 million visits to the main MIT OpenCourseWare site (ocw.mit.edu) were recorded, as compared to 4.2 million in the previous year, an increase of 22%. The site averaged 423,269 visits per month during the evaluation period, and ranged from 348,708 in July 2005 to 533,425 in October 2005. As with overall traffic to OCW content above, traffic to the

OCW 18 MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content.

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http://ocw.mit.edu - the depth and currency of the publication, affecting the many other ways visitors use our site. At present our focus remains on making the courseware used in all MIT courses available as a resource to educators and learners around the world. 7. How do I get a copy of the course pack for a particular course? The course-pack materials that accompany most MIT courses often contain proprietary information and copyrighted materials that MIT Faculty only use in their classroom interactions with MIT students. We cannot, therefore, make these materials openly available to MIT OpenCourseWare users. 8. What are the prerequisites to use MIT OpenCourseWare materials? Because MIT OpenCourseWare

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http://ocw.mit.edu - our content directly on the ocw.mit.edu site, through sites hosting translations of our courses, and through mirror sites that make content more accessible in regions with bandwidth limitations or high international access costs. Offline, our content is accessed by visitors who have downloaded or printed our content and by secondary audiences who receive OCW materials in print or electronic form from site visitors. 1. Online access to OCW site content Overall visits to MIT OpenCourseWare content Visits to MIT OpenCourseWare content—whether on ocw.mit.edu, translation partner sites,3 or mirror sites—increased significantly during • 8.5 M visits to OCW content last year the evaluation period. As shown in Figure 1 below, total visits to • 56% annual increase in visits ocw.mit.edu and translation sites

OCW 161 MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content.

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http://ocw.mit.edu -third from 82% of visitors to video pages are satisfied with RealMedia; • • institutions other than MIT 66% prefer to download rather than stream 6/5/2006 Executive Summary About MIT OpenCourseWare MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a large-scale, web-based electronic publishing initiative, accessible on the Internet at ocw.mit.edu. Through OCW, MIT makes its core teaching materials—lecture notes, problem sets, syllabi, reading lists, simulations, etc.—openly available for non-commercial educational purposes. OCW publishes those materials in standards-based formats for anyone with access to the Internet.1 OCW has a dual mission: • • To provide free access to virtually all MIT course materials for educators, students, and individual learners

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http://ocw.mit.edu - program planning and decisionmaking. MIT OCW Evaluation Findings June 2006 4 II. Findings: Access At the highest level, access data indicate: • • • • • A. Online access to MIT OCW content has grown dramatically on the ocw.mit.edu site itself and on translation sites. OCW materials are being widely distributed offline to secondary audiences. OCW is accessed by a broadly international population of educators and learners. Visits most often begin on the site directly and average 9.2 page views. Visitors are largely satisfied with the file formats for OCW print and video content, but would prefer more options. MIT OpenCourseWare access levels MIT OpenCourseWare content is accessed by users through a range of channels both online and off. Online, users access

OCW 3 MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content.

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http://ocw.mit.edu - requires an investment of $10,000 to $15,000 to compile course materials from faculty, ensure proper licensing for open sharing, and format materials for global distribution. Courses with video content cost about twice as much, but your feedback about the significant value of these video materials helps to justify the cost. Learn more. Why Donate? Help keep MIT OpenCourseWare going and growing. The financial support of our visitors helps keep MIT OpenCourseWare going and growing. OCW now offers more than 1800 courses, virtually the entire MIT curriculum - useful, high-quality materials in the sciences, engineering, humanities, business, and many other disciplines. We continue to expand our free content, but there is a substantial expense in publishing these materials. The cost of "free" education

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http://ocw.mit.edu - For more information, please see Appendix 3. C. Major findings • Access: Online access to MIT OpenCourseWare content continues to grow dramatically on ocw.mit.edu and on translation sites, with currently more than 1 million monthly visits to OCW content, and a 56% annual increase in visits. Use: The OCW site is being used by educators, students and self learners to successfully accomplish a wide range of educational objectives; and visitors are widely satisfied with the breadth, depth and quality of OCW content. Impact: Individual educators and learners report high levels of current impact on their learning goals, and expectations for even higher impact in the future; institutions worldwide are both using MIT OpenCourseWare materials and publishing their own materials openly—with more than 2,000 courses

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http://ocw.mit.edu -this pattern. Access to translated OCW content ACCESS: TRANSLATION TRAFFIC LEVELS MIT OpenCourseWare has translation affiliate agreements with four organizations: Universia, which translates our content into Spanish and • OCW translations generated 3.4 M visits, Portuguese; China Open Resources for Education (CORE), which 68% of the ocw.mit.edu site traffic translates our materials into simplified Chinese; Opensource • Visits to translations increased 170% over Opencourseware Prototype System (OOPS), which translates our last year materials into traditional Chinese; and Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, which translates our content into Thai. The most dramatic increases in traffic to OCW content during the evaluation period occurred on these

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http://ocw.mit.edu - 6.6% 7.6% 7.5% 5.6% 4.4% 3.7% 2.5% 2.1% 2.9% 2.3% 2.2% 1.2% 1.6% 1.7% 0.9% 1.4% 1.4% 1.6% 1.0% 1.6% 1.0% 0.9% 1.1% 1.2% 1.0% 0.9% 0.9% 0.5% 0.5% 0.4% 0.3% 0.1% 0.1% 100.0% Other 20.0% 5.9% 3.4% 5.4% 6.8% 2.4% 3.9% 7.3% 6.3% 1.0% 4.9% 5.4% 2.4% 1.5% 3.4% 2.0% 1.5% 1.5% 2.0% 1.0% 1.5% 0.5% 2.9% 1.5% 1.5% 0.0% 2.0% 0.0% 0.5% 0.5% 0.0% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% All roles 25.3% 6.7% 6.5% 6.1% 6.0% 5.7% 5.1% 4.9% 2.9% 2.5% 2.3% 2.3% 2.2% 2.1% 1.8% 1.6% 1.5% 1.5% 1.5% 1.4% 1.2% 1.1% 1.1% 1.1% 1.0% 1.0% 0.9% 0.7% 0.6% 0.6% 0.4% 0.3% 0.2% 0.2% 0.1% 100.0% Source: 2005 Visitor Survey 4. Visit frequency and prior visits New and returning visitors In the current evaluation period, 3,497,029 unique visitors were identified as having visited the site; of those, 728,408 (20%) had visited the site prior to the start of the evaluation period.9

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http://ocw.mit.edu - role distribution by region 8 Region North America East Asia Western Europe Latin America South Asia Eastern Europe MENA Pacific Sub-Sah. Africa Central Asia Caribbean All regions Educator 12.5% 13.3% 19.8% 26.9% 15.7% 22.0% 24.2% 14.9% 19.0% 21.4% 33.3% 16.4% Student 28.0% 34.5% 29.2% 30.6% 34.2% 45.9% 42.5% 40.3% 32.8% 35.7% 16.7% 32.0% Self learner 53.2% 49.2% 45.8% 37.3% 43.0% 25.2% 29.2% 43.3% 41.4% 42.9% 50.0% 46.5% Other 6.3% 2.9% 5.2% 5.2% 7.2% 6.9% 4.2% 1.5% 6.9% 0.0% 0.0% 5.2% Total 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% Source: 2005 Visitor Survey The percentage of educators using the site in North America has increased in the past two years from 8.4% to the current 12.5% while remaining relatively stable in

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http://ocw.mit.edu -user in the world. 51 WORDS MIT OpenCourseWare, available at http://ocw.mit.edu, makes the materials used in the teaching of almost all of MITs undergraduate and graduate subjects available on the Web, free of charge, to any user in the world. With nearly 1,800 courses available, MIT OCW is delivering on the promise of open sharing of knowledge. 74 WORDS MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW), available at http://ocw.mit.edu, makes the course materials used in the teaching of all MIT undergraduate and graduate subjects available on the Web, free of charge, to any user in the world. Educators utilize the materials for curriculum development, while students and self-learners around