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- proper noun A body of
academic materials released online, free of charge and open for use worldwide.
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Still, whether the paying students would have enrolled if they had had the option to earn credit for their time on OpenCourseWare is unclear.
As Free Online Courses are Made Available by Colleges, Others are Cashing In | Impact Lab 2010
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OpenCourseWare is the term coined to describe this phemonenom, pioneered in the USA by MIT’s OpenCourseWare project.
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Associated Press An MIT initiative called OpenCourseWare offers business courses online.
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Taken all together, I was impressed with the notion of OpenCourseWare but not with the reality.
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » UC Berkeley molecular biology webcast 2007
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For the last four years, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been pioneering a system known as OpenCourseWare, which allows any Internet user to access materials -- including lecture notes, problem sets and quizzes -- from various university courses...
B2fxxx 2005
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There's a reason MIT's OpenCourseWare site beats the consortium's site on a standard Google search for "OpenCourseWare".
MakeUseOf.com 2010
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If just 1 percent of the 50,000 unique monthly visitors to the Utah State OpenCourseWare site had paid a $50 exam fee, the OpenCourseWare program could have been sustainable, he said.
As Free Online Courses are Made Available by Colleges, Others are Cashing In | Impact Lab 2010
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Freely sharing materials over the Internet creates an incentive for universities to improve themselves, said Catherine Casserly, former director of the Open Educational Resources Initiative at the Hewlett Foundation, which finances many OpenCourseWare projects.
As Free Online Courses are Made Available by Colleges, Others are Cashing In | Impact Lab 2010
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Steve Carson, external relations director for M.I.T. OpenCourseWare, and Diana E.E. Kleiner, director of Open Yale Courses, cite the philanthropic desire to spread knowledge as the strongest motivation to create open materials.
As Free Online Courses are Made Available by Colleges, Others are Cashing In | Impact Lab 2010
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The OpenCourseWare Consortium, which grew out of the M.I.T. project, now includes over 200 institutions worldwide and offers materials from more than 13,000 courses.
As Free Online Courses are Made Available by Colleges, Others are Cashing In | Impact Lab 2010
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