OCW: Part 2!

3 Peer-reviewed Articles

The Creation of OpenCourseWare at MIT

http://www.springerlink.com/content/1n61648287674187/

This article embraces a historical tenor and explores the creation of the MIT OCW project. The article includes the strategy behind the launch, its precursors, and its evolution. Key players identified and discussed include: administrators, advocates, and others on/off campus. The article concludes by identifying sustainability challenges.

What is OpenCourseWare and Why Does it Matter?

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/40177912

This article provides a mile-high view regarding the history of OCW (e.g. Sharewared, Linux). It then suggests why OCW is/will have an impact. Reasons include OCW’s impact on traditional schools, copyright law, and its worldwide potential.

OOPS, Turning MIT Opencourseware into Chinese: An analysis of a community of practice of global translators

http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/viewArticle/463

Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System (OOPS) in Taiwan was designed to translate open source materials from MIT’s OCW site into Chinese. This article explored how OOPS collaborated while interpreting the materials in order to provide a window into the emergence and functioning of an online global education “community of practice” in the OER movement.

5 Additional Resources

(1) MIT OpenCourseWare 1800 Event Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbQ-FeoEvTI

MIT showed this video to celebrate the publication of the 1800^th course on MIT OpenCourseWare. It is an advertisement-style (mile-high) overview of some of the benefits of OCW at MIT.

(2) Bill Gates on MIT OpenCourseWare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfvxfkBVLqQ

Bill Gates provides some informal comments about MIT’s OCW, including noting that he took a class OCW.

(3) OpenCourseWare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcMHBushl00

Note: Good video short included here showing the benefit of OCW to those in 3^rd world countries with Internet access (i.e. man trying to water his field watches agricultural lecture and adopts idea).

(4) OpenCourseWare—Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCourseWare

This submission defines OCW, notes its beginnings (e.g. MIT, Yale) and discusses how it is developing in China and Japan.

(5) Utah State OCW Link

http://ocw.usu.edu/

I have a guess regarding who facilitated this . . . J

USU offers a number of courses (http://ocw.usu.edu/courselist/index.html) via OCW.