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Open Course Ware (OCW) MIT O���C�����W��� G����� A����� �� O��� E�������� R�������� MIRROR SITES TRAFFIC TO LIVE SITE EUROPE / CENTRAL ASIA NORTH AMERICA EAST ASIA / PACIFIC SOUTH ASIA MIDEAST/ N. AFRICA LATIN AMERICA CARIBBEAN SUB-SAH. AFRICA More than 54% of the traffic to OCW comes from outside North America. OCW has installed 359 mirrored sites in countries with limited or no Internet access. Inside MIT OpenCourseWare The Need » Create innovati ve new programs to Moving Open Education Forward reach millions more minds over the OpenCourseWare (OCW), the web-based publicati on of MIT course next decade content, is open and available to the world. More than 200 million » Produce a steady stream of course people have accessed lecture notes, videos, problem sets, and other content, update existi ng content core MIT teaching materials—at no cost—through OCW for more than a decade. Now, more than 2,200 courses across 33 disciplines—both » R e fi n e the customized publicati on undergraduate and graduate—are online. tools to deliver content, especially to underserved regions Independent learners, high-school teachers, and MIT students, as well as entrepreneurs and professionals benefi t from OCW. For nearly 50% of the MIT student body, it’s a guide to selecti ng classes. MIT faculty use it to measure their own teaching in the context of other course off erings. Business people access OCW to refresh their understanding of key concepts, and apply what they learn to solve immediate problems. OpenCourseWare pioneered the concept of open educati on resources, “…a movement that increasingly looks like the future of higher-educati on reform,” according to Kevin Carey, policy director for the independent think tank Educati on Sector. OCW works in synergy with MITx, the Insti tute’s online learning platf orm, providing core teaching materials for prerequisites and follow-on courses. For its part, MITx is moving open educati on forward by off ering select classes with interacti ve labs, discussion groups, and grading. Equally as criti cal, innovati ons in instructi on from both programs enrich and enhance the other. Similarly, OCW works with edX, the joint online learning program from MIT and Harvard University. New and Coming Innovations Since it launched in 2001, 175 million people from 195 countries have visited the OCW site. To reach millions more minds over the next decade, OCW will focus on four areas: • SHARING OCW EVERYWHERE - OCW today goes everywhere the Internet goes, and beyond (mirrored copies of OCW content are available on local computer hard drives in areas with poor or no Internet access). The goal is to make OCW content easier to find, adapt its materials to mobile devices, and find new ways to reach underserved populations. • SERVING KEY AUDIENCES - OCW’s Highlights for High School gives students and teachers access to Advanced Placement physics, calculus, and biology courses. OCW Scholar courses have been developed to serve independent learners, who make up almost half Donald Sadoway, the John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry, teaches Course 3.091SC, Introduction to Solid of OCW users. These courses include custom-created content and State Chemistry. A video of this lecture is part of the materials repurposed from MIT classrooms. As the Highlights for OCW Scholar course offering. High School and OCW Scholar programs grow, OCW seeks to identify other audiences from a range of cultures and backgrounds. “The OCW site is an invaluable piece • CREATING OPEN LEARNING - OCW will continue to explore new of the academic infrastructure at opportunities in the still-emerging ecosystem of open education by MIT. Nearly half of MIT students facilitating collaborations, discussion, and feedback among online use it to select classes, and 53% of learners through social media and other platforms. OCW has already faculty agree that students have established online study groups for a few of its most popular courses; one has more than 15,000 students. better advising information available through OpenCourseWare.” • EMPOWERING EDUCATORS WORLDWIDE - OCW Educator takes OCW one step beyond simply sharing teaching materials to showing—through Shigeru Miyagawa, Chair, OCW Faculty videos and instructions—how MIT faculty use these materials. Advisory Committee The Impact OCW courses have been translated into more than 10 languages. Some 280 universities around the world have created and published more than 30,000 courses in the OCW format. There are 50,000 resources on the OCW site, including syllabi, simulations, exams, and videos. And while it costs on average $15,000 to publish teaching materials for one OCW course, there is no cost to the OCW participant. “As a repository of our teaching materials and a publication reflecting MIT’s pedagogical practices, OCW is a vital part of MIT’s open education portfolio,” said MIT Professors Hal Abelson, Shigeru Miyagawa, and Dick Yue in an article in theMIT Faculty Newsletter. “As teaching approaches at MIT change … OCW will disseminate our work, maintaining MIT’s position as a global educational innovator and helping fulfill MIT’s mission to advance knowledge and educate students to serve the nation and the world.” For More Information David Woodruff Associate Vice President and COO Resource Development [email protected] | 617.253.3990 ocw.mit.edu.
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